What Are Basic Services for Dental?

Dentistry has been one of the fastest developing medical sectors. St. Andrew’s Dental Care offers reliable services to the community and is always there to deal with any kind of tooth problems for you and your family. 

It would be helpful to know which basic services and different dental procedures dental care facility can offer to the community. Here is a comprehensive guide to organizing them better in your mind:

Preventive Dentistry

It deals with all the necessary examinations a dental surgeon would do to check your teeth’ health and hygiene. Most of the times, the services include but are not limited to the following:

Cleaning and Checkups

A dentist (or dental hygienist) performs a thorough tooth examination and spots the places where plaque has been built up. Today laser and ultrasounds are applied to remove this plaque from your teeth. Then brushes and medical curettes can reach the most hard-to-reach parts of your teeth where you have no access with your toothbrush. Dentists can also clean the area between your teeth where food can enter, and gingivitis starts developing.

Dental Sealants

Sealants are another primary service for preventive dentistry. Inactive substances can get permanently brushed on your teeth surface to prevent their decay. It also stops the bacteria development and seals the tooth pulp to avoid a painful filling from occurring shortly. It is a common practice for children who have just acquired their permanent teeth.

Nitrous Oxide Sedation

Some people cannot even stand sitting on the dentist’s chair. Children belong to a population who refuse to open its mouth for a simple dental examination. Nitrous oxide sedation is a type of focal anesthesia used to stay calm and react less during dental works. It is one of the most frequently used procedures to ensure patients’ compliance.

Cosmetic Dentistry

It’s a new and promising sector for dentists. People turn to cosmetic dentistry to deal with fractures of their permanent teeth. Your dentist can also perform a tooth whitening procedure using carbamide peroxides and laser light to bring your front teeth to their initial white condition.

Lately, we have seen porcelain veneers become extremely popular for people who want to change their teeth shape. Your dentist can take a cast of your teeth and create permanent porcelain covers for them to make them more even and whiter than they used to be.

Another impressive cosmetic dentistry procedure is the bridges and crown placement. When you have lost one of your teeth, a bridge can hide the gap using porcelain or other durable materials. Crowns usually cover one tooth you have performed a filling or a root canal. Finally, dental implants are the latest evolution to have permanent tooth replacements directly attached to your jaws.

Endodontics

Even though fewer dentists can deal with it, endodontics are some of the basic dental procedures offered by St. Andrew’s Dental Centre. Here are some of the significant endodontics tasks performed by your dentist and deal with the “internal world” of your teeth, the pulp, and the nerve roots being close to the facial bones. 

Dental Fillings

Dental fillings have traditionally been the number one endodontic therapy. Today you can choose between various materials to fill in the hole created by gingivitis on the upper adamantine layers of your teeth. Gold, amalgam, porcelain, and plastic composite are some of the frequently used materials to seal your teeth and ensure the survival of your pulp.

Root Canals

It isn’t rare to suffer from gingivitis that could contaminate your pulp and even reach the lower parts of your teeth. When the roots are infected from bacteria, the situation may suddenly get worse. It was inevitable to lose your teeth in older times, but today root canals have been the gold standard for dental therapy. Your endodontist applies certain micro-tools to reach the infected root tissue and remove it. When your infected tooth is finally cleaned, it can be sealed and entered into a crown to live longer than initially expected.

Wisdom Teeth Extractions

Another basic endodontic therapy would be wisdom teeth removal. Every person has four wisdom teeth (two in each jaw) that could take an uneven position in the mouth. Their extraction is necessary when they start decaying and has to be done with extreme care to protect the sensitive nerves passing underneath these teeth.

Full/Partial Dentures

Dentures (either partial or full) are the last resort for people who have lost most of their teeth. Dentists usually deal with many people who need dentures to chew their food and have a better appearance when smiling.