Restorative Dentistry
Restorative Dentistry Keeps your smile working for you!
Dental Crowns
Dr. Oyama wants you to keep your natural teeth for as long as possible.
When you're dealing with a cavity or another dental issue, we often recommend a white filling. But if you're suffering from advanced decay or have more filling than tooth structure, it puts your teeth at risk of cracks, breaks, and other issues.
We don't want that to happen. So, a Crown may be the answer.
What is a dental crown?
A dental crown covers the entire visible portion, protecting its remaining structure and restoring its original shape, size, and color.
We design with a custom approach to crowns, restoring the strength, health, and aesthetics of your smile. With technologically advanced equipment and extra attention paid to your comfort during treatment, we ensure that fixing your dental crown is simple and successful.
Is getting a dental crown painful?
You may think dental crown treatments are only for people with severe dental problems. But, thanks to advanced technology and improved techniques, they've become more straightforward, easier, and more tolerable than ever.
We also provide various sedation dentistry options for anxious patients, but if the patient does not require pain relief or anesthesia, numbing gel and local anesthetic is usually enough.
Dental Implants
Why Dental Implants are a Great Option
Dental implants are a safe and reliable tooth replacement that can improve your quality of life despite the risks involved.
Dental implants are a long-term replacement option that improves chewing, speech,and appearance. If well maintained, it will last a lifetime.
- Designed For Your Health-Titanium and zirconium implants encourage healthy bone and gum tissue growth, which provide a strong foundation for future oral health.
- Long-Lasting – Dental implants are an excellent investment, usually lasting 30 or more years with proper oral hygiene.
- Looks & Feels Natural – Dental implants are custom-made to both look and function like your natural teeth. You will be able to eat or speak without feeling self-conscious about your smile.
- Easy to care For – Caring for your dental implant is easy! Just brush and floss as usual, and visit the clinic regularly for teeth cleanings.
Dental Fillings
What are dental fillings?
Dental fillings are typically used to fill small holes in a tooth where decay has been removed. A filing can be made from a variety of materials. Most common has been amalgam which is a mixture of metals or a composite of glass and acrylic resin.
Traditional fillings can have a downside. As noted in a literature review published in the Journal of Dental Health, Oral Disorders & Therapy, metal fillings can weaken tooth strength by up to 50%. In comparison, inlays and onlays made of porcelain and composite materials can increase tooth strength up to 75% and last between ten and thirty years!
Fillings do not require moulds, and several can be done in one appointment. They are less expensive and appropriate for small cavities. In contrast, inlays and outlays are for larger damaged areas. Think of inlays and onlays as a middle ground between fillings and crowns.
Filling cavities is a simple procedure completed at our practice in a short appointment. Fillings are used to repair teeth that have been damaged due to decay or other wear. As an alternative, fillings can also be treated with a tooth-colored composite material to restore a natural look and feel of the tooth.
Extractions
Reasons for Removing Teeth
Despite adult teeth being considered permanent, extractions are a standard procedure for optimal oral health and treat pain or discomfort while chewing, biting, swallowing or speaking.
Overcrowding
Crowding, caused by teeth being too big or unevenly shaped, can cause misalignment. Extracting a tooth is sometimes necessary to make room for other teeth. Overcrowding can also prevent teeth from erupting through the gum, causing severe pain for the patient.
Extraction may be necessary before orthodontic work.
Infection.
When a tooth is damaged, and pulp tissue is infected, an extraction may be necessary. Your dentist might prescribe antibiotics first, but they are often ineffective in treating severe infections and extraction is needed.
Periodontal Disease
When the tissues and bones that hold teeth in place become infected or inflamed, the tooth roots loosen, resulting in the need for an extraction.
Injury
A tooth damaged as the result of an accident may require extraction.
Root Canal Treatment
Dr. Oyama takes great pride in her ability to complete a Root Canal in one appointment, made possible with her great skill and cutting-edge technology on-site.
These symptoms may indicate you require a root canal procedure;
- A chipped or cracked tooth
- Lingering sensitivity to hot or cold
- Dark gums under a tooth, or deep decay
- Tender, swollen gums
- Pimples on the gums.
- Severe pain while chewing or biting.
Bone Grafting
What information do I need about Dental Bone Graft?
A dental bone graft procedure increases bone in a part of the jaw and provides additional support for dental implants or when tooth and gum health has deteriorated due to bone loss.
What is a dental bone graft?
Procedures may differ regarding the methods used, but they all have one main similarity: An incision is made and the grafting (attachment) of other bone material (synthetic or bone) to the jaw by your dentist.
Loss of teeth or advanced gum disease can result in bone loss of the jaw.
Bone grafting restores and strengthens the area.
The "Gold Standard '' of dental bone grafting is to use your bone from the hip, tibia, or back of the jaw. This is known as an autograft. Autografts are preferred because they increase bony support in the jaw and promote faster healing and new bone formation.
Dentures and Partials
Dentures include both artificial teeth and gums, created on a custom basis to fit into a patient's mouth. Dentures might replace just a few missing teeth (partials) or all the teeth on the top or bottom of the mouth. There are some important things to know about these prosthetics.
Dentures are made from hard resin materials. But they can crack or chip and need to be handled with care. Above the teeth, the prosthetic gums may be made from the same hard resin as the teeth, or from a flexible polymer. Over time, dentures can wear down and will need to be replaced.
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