Advanced Technology

Digital Imaging

To ensure the safety of our patients, we adhere to the latest industry guidelines for radiographs. Digital imaging, with its minimal exposure time, provides a secure environment and reduces radiation by about 50 percent compared to traditional radiographs.

Radiographs are valuable aids to proper diagnosis and treatment, allowing us to see everything we cannot see with our naked eyes. They enable us to detect cavities in between teeth, determine bone level, and analyze the health of your bone. We can also examine the roots and nerves of teeth, diagnose lesions such as cysts or tumors, and assess damage when trauma occurs.

Digital X-rays, viewed on a computer monitor, offer unparalleled precision, resulting in only 1/6th of the radiation exposure compared to traditional radiographs. This digital imaging technology also allows us to store and transfer patient images swiftly and efficiently when needed.

Intraoral Camera

Our dentists utilize intraoral camera technology to help enhance your understanding of your diagnosis. An intraoral camera is a small camera—in some cases, just a few millimeters long. It allows us to view clear, precise images of your mouth, teeth, and gums in order to make a diagnosis accurately. With clear, defined, enlarged images, you see details that may be missed by standard mirror examinations. This can mean faster diagnosis with less chair time for you!

Intraoral cameras also enable our practice to save your images on our office computer to provide a permanent record of treatments. These images can be printed for you, other specialists, and our lab.

OPG X-Ray

This panoramic scanning X-ray captures an image of the entire mouth, including the jaws, teeth, and surrounding bones, in one image. This gives us a complete picture that allows us to see and assess the jaws’ alignment, overall bone health, and position of the teeth relative to each other and the jaws. This is particularly helpful for creating treatment plans for impacted wisdom teeth removal, orthodontics, and dental implant placement.

CBCT Scanner

Our Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) scanner captures detailed 3D images of the oral and maxillofacial regions. CBCT scanners use a cone-shaped X-ray beam to capture high-resolution images with minimal radiation exposure. The precision 3D images capture the teeth, bones, nerves, muscles, and surrounding tissues for a complete picture of complicated anatomical structures. We use these images in planning and executing a wide range of procedures. CBCT scans are crucial in enhancing the accuracy and outcomes of dental implant surgeries while minimizing surgical trauma.

CBCT images also allow us to clearly illustrate our patients’ treatment options so that they understand each procedure. They help minimize dental anxiety and empower our patients to make informed decisions about their oral health.

Soft Tissue Laser

Soft tissue lasers allow our team to perform various procedures without scalpels or sutures, including periodontal surgery and oral biopsies. A high-energy laser beam is precisely focused on the targeted tissue, eliminating the need for large incisions or sutures required in traditional surgery. This also eliminates the risk of damaging surrounding healthy tissue. Soft tissue laser therapy virtually eliminates post-operative bleeding and swelling and dramatically reduces recovery times.

We may also use the laser in root canal treatment to penetrate deep into the root canal system to eliminate bacteria and microorganisms, including difficult-to-eliminate drug resistant bacteria.

Our patients generally recover faster and experience less post-operative pain and discomfort with laser-aided treatment.

3D Digital Scanner

Our 3D digital scanners are slender, intraoral scanners used to capture extremely accurate 3D images of the interior of the oral cavity, including the teeth. These detailed, high-resolution images enable us to diagnose, plan treatments, and design and fabricate restorations such as dental crowns with extreme precision without having to use conventional dental “goop” to make impressions of the mouth. This makes it more comfortable for our patients, eliminating the suffocating feeling of dental putty and avoiding any gag reflex.

3D Printing

Our dentists now use the latest innovations in 3D Printing to create dental prosthetics such as night guards, retainers, temporary implants, crowns, and bridges in our offices. 3D printing technology ensures an exact fit precision designed to fit based on a digital impression of your mouth. We use a small intraoral scanner to create the impression, which is sent to our design station. From there, using specialized software, we design the crown or other device and send the information to our printer. The 3D printer then fabricates, polishes, and cures the final product. The results are faster, more precise, and of the highest quality, ensuring patient satisfaction.