Restorative Dentistry
Your smile should reflect your personality and confidence. But when your teeth are affected by decay, injury, or gum disease, it can diminish your self-esteem. Our restorative dentistry services can help you bring back a smile you’re proud to show off.
Let’s Restore Your Smile
Gum Disease Treatment
Your Smile Needs Healthy Gums
Gum tissue is one of the most important parts of your mouth. Along with providing support for your bone and teeth, gums help create a barrier against bacteria. When plaque is left to buildup on your teeth, it hardens into calculus and releases toxins that infect your gum tissue, breaking this seal that keeps bacteria out. Gum disease often goes undetected by individuals, which is why this disease is so dangerous. Because it’s progressive, gum disease will continue to damage your gum tissue, bone, and teeth and even exacerbate systemic conditions like diabetes and heart disease, if not properly managed. By the time patients visit our office for gum disease treatment in Fort Worth, TX, many have been living with gingivitis or a more advanced stage of gum disease for a while. Don’t wait to get treatment from our experienced dentists if you’ve noticed your gums are more tender than usual or bleed easily whenever you brush and floss!
Treating Gum Disease With Laser Therapy
If you are experiencing even one of the symptoms of gum disease, we can provide targeted treatment with laser therapy. Using our diode laser, we can eradicate the bacteria from the teeth and pockets around your tooth roots, without needing to make any incisions in your gum tissue. Laser therapy relies on a beam of light that targets and eliminates bacteria on the teeth and gum tissue and is an efficient way to treat most stages of gum disease. Additionally, laser therapy is a minimally invasive treatment that promotes a faster and more comfortable recovery.
Know The Signs Of Gum Disease
- Gums that bleed easily
- Receding gums
- Tender, swollen gums
- Persistent bad breath
- Shifting or loosening teeth
Our Periodontal Services
- Scaling and Root Planing
Scaling and root planing is the first step for treating gum disease. During this non-surgical “deep cleaning,” we’ll first remove the bacteria and calculus from the teeth and periodontal pockets. Next, we’ll smooth the tooth surfaces to discourage future buildup and to help healthy tissues reattach to the teeth, reducing pocket depth. - Gingivectomy
More advanced cases of gum disease may require that the diseased tissue be removed in addition to scaling and root planing. A gingivectomy removes the infected gum tissue and reduces the depth of the pockets around the teeth. After the area has been cleared of bacteria and calculus, the healthy gum tissue can heal and reattach to the teeth. - Osseous Surgery
Osseous surgery, for severe cases of periodontal disease, involves flapping the gum tissue back away from the teeth and bone. Then the area is cleared of all bacteria and plaque buildup, the damaged bone is reshaped, and antibiotics are placed in the periodontal pockets. Diseased tissue is cut away and the healthy gums are sutured back around the teeth to support healthy healing. - Periodontal Maintenance
Advanced cases of gum disease can never be cured, only managed. This can be effectively done through periodontal maintenance. These appointments every 3-4 months consist of deep cleaning of the teeth and pockets to remove any bacteria and calculus that has accumulated. Following a recommended maintenance schedule can keep gum disease from returning in the future. - Peri-Implantitis Treatment
A similar condition to gum disease, peri-implantitis sometimes affects the gum tissue surrounding a dental implant. When this occurs, we’ll take the same measures to clear away the bacteria and calculus and remove infected gum tissue. Peri-implantitis can also be treated with our diode laser, which provides a faster and more comfortable recovery.
Tooth Extraction
Alleviating Toothaches With an Extraction
A problem tooth may leave you experiencing a chronic ache or sharp discomfort whenever you bite or chew. In any instance of toothache, seeing our dentists should be at the top of your list! Your tooth is telling you that decay or infection has become severe enough to reach the nerves, which is why you have a toothache. Unfortunately, this toothache won’t resolve on its own and if the discomfort does go away, it’s often because the tooth has died. We recommend you visit our office before this becomes the case! We’ll do our best to save your natural tooth, such as through a root canal. However, if this isn’t possible, we offer comfortable tooth extractions in Fort Worth, TX to resolve your toothache.
Comfort in Every Procedure
At our office, you won’t have to worry about tooth extractions being painful or scary! This procedure is common, and our dentists are experts, especially since they remove teeth almost every day using minimally invasive techniques. We’ll be sure you are completely relaxed and comfortable during your appointment. You can also choose additional sedation, including nitrous oxide and oral sedation. In many cases, tooth extractions are simple procedures that won’t take long at all. In the case of wisdom teeth extraction, we’ll be sure to walk you through the specific procedure, as it is a surgical process. Our dentists complete all types of tooth extractions right in our modern practice, where we’ll be sure to make you feel right at home and safe.
Extraction Isn’t the End
Teeth extractions as part of orthodontic treatment or because of impacted wisdom teeth won’t need to be replaced. But if you need a tooth removed because of decay, infection, or disease, you don’t have to resort to living with a gapped smile or partial denture! Our dentists have advanced training and experience in dental implants, the permanent tooth replacement solution. Dental implants replace both your tooth root and the visible portion of your tooth, making them a more healthier and durable option if you need tooth extractions. Because of our CEREC and guided implant surgery technology, we can potentially extract your tooth and replace it during the same appointment with a dental implant and crown! You don’t have to worry about your tooth extractions being the end of your treatment. You can have a fully restored smile once again with dental implants.
Why A Tooth Needs Extraction
- Extensive decay
- Severe infection
- Dental trauma
- Gum disease
- Crowding
- Impacted teeth
Root Canal
We don’t ever want our patients to experience tooth pain, so if you find yourself suffering from a toothache, contact us right away. Pain in or around your tooth, especially if it’s chipped or cracked, is almost always a sign that it’s decayed or infected and needs professional treatment. Root canals are the conservative and comfortable way we treat infection in your tooth. Though they have a bad reputation, root canals are actually designed to alleviate your tooth discomfort! Best of all, the goal of our root canals in Fort Worth, TX is to preserve natural teeth so that extraction isn’t necessary. After a short, comfortable procedure, you can be on your way with a healthy, natural smile free from pain and infection!
Experience Comfortable Treatment
We’ll be sure to make you as comfortable as possible for your root canal therapy. If you’re feeling anxious, we can provide additional sedation like nitrous oxide or oral sedation. During your procedure, we’ll remove the top portion of your tooth before clearing away the infected tooth pulp from the root canals. We’ll then thoroughly disinfect and clean the area before filling these canals with gutta-percha to restore support to the tooth. You’ll most likely need a dental crown after root canal therapy to ensure your tooth remains strong, healthy, and free from infection.
Thanks to our CEREC software and in-office milling technology, we can have a custom-designed dental crown milled during this same appointment! We’ll prepare your tooth, then take digital impressions that are uploaded to our design software. Using our cosmetic expertise, we’ll design your new dental crown and fabricate it in our milling machine. All this occurs while you’re comfortably resting in the chair! Once your crown is milled, we’ll attach it to your treated tooth. You’ll be pleasantly surprised to discover how efficient and comfortable root canals are at our office!
Signs You Need A Root Canal
- Persistent toothache
- Sharp pain when eating
- Tooth sensitivity
- Tender gums around tooth
- Tooth discoloration
Dentures
Functional and Attractive Modern Dentures
We understand that if you’re missing all your teeth, or are about to, it can make everyday living incredibly difficult and leave you feeling self-conscious and even in physical pain. If you’re in this situation, we can help with custom-made and natural-looking modern dentures in Fort Worth, TX. Dentures are the long-standing teeth replacements that can get you back to a functional, active life by replacing all your teeth in one or both arches. Today’s dentures are highly aesthetic and built to fit the natural contours of your mouth—and are at a price you can afford. Our experienced dentists have years of cosmetic training and will design your dentures to fit comfortably in your mouth and give you an attractive smile that looks completely natural.
How Our Denture Process Works
Our goal is to provide you with a new set of attractive teeth that help restore day-to-day function and renew your confidence. If you have any remaining teeth, they’ll need to be extracted beforehand. Next, we’ll take impressions of your mouth and begin designing your new dentures to your preferences. Everything from the height and shade of your teeth to the tooth-to-gum ratio when you smile can be customized to be exactly how you want. Our cosmetic dentists are skilled in designing these custom dentures and by utilizing our advanced technology, we will provide you with a durable set of strong, beautiful teeth!
Secure Your Dentures
Dentures will provide you with attractive teeth and improved function. But if you’re concerned that they won’t provide enough stability, you have options! We offer implant supported dentures and full mouth dental implants, two full-arch teeth replacements that use dental implants for support. With a denture or prosthetic fixed in your mouth with two or more dental implants, you’ll have greater freedom to bite and chew a variety of foods and benefit from the stimulation implants give your natural jawbone. These teeth will look completely natural too, but because of the dental implants, are more permanent and won’t need relining or replacement. You can enjoy fixed, healthy, and attractive teeth for life!
Improve Your Smile And Life
- Teeth that look completely natural
- A significant boost in self-esteem
- Improvement in your eating ability
- A custom denture that fits your mouth
- Support for a natural facial appearance
Minimally Invasive Laser Therapy
Our Select Laser Therapies
- Frenectomy
Frenectomy treatments used to involve using a scalpel to loosen the frenulum, the tissue that connects the upper lip and the tongue to the mouth. With our diode laser, we can gently remove this tissue in a matter of minutes, without excessive bleeding or pain during recovery. - Soft Tissue Recontouring
Traditional treatment for a “gummy” smile meant using a scalpel to reshape the gum tissue from around the crowns. Now, using our diode laser, we can quickly eradicate an excess gum tissue and precisely recontour the gums for a more symmetrical smile. - Gingivectomy
A gingivectomy using a scalpel involves cutting away the diseased gum tissue to eliminate or reduce the periodontal pocket depth. With our diode laser, we can remove this damaged tissue and burn away the bacteria on and around the teeth to efficiently treat gum disease. - Peri-Implantitis
Peri-implantitis is a similar condition to gum disease, where infection caused by bacteria damages the gum tissue and bone surrounding a dental implant. Using our diode laser, we can gently eradicate the diseased tissue and bacteria from the site, without the need for scalpels or incisions in healthy gum tissue.
- Procedures without sharp tools or loud drills
- No need for scalpels or sutures, in most cases
- More comfortable procedure and recovery
- Minimally invasive, with less bleeding and swelling
- Soundless lasers to ease dental anxiety and fear
