Friendly Gentle Care - Services We Offer
Let us guide you on your path to a lifelong healthy and beautiful smile. Modern restorative dentistry preserves and conserves your natural teeth. With whitening, porcelain veneers, natural-looking crowns and bridges, lifelike bonding and clear braces, we’ve change dentistry from a dull gray or glinting gold experience to a reflection of nature’s own handiwork.
Implant Restoration - stable, comfortable tooth replacements that last
Cosmetic Dentures - life like natural beauty, so real even dentists can’t tell
Esthetic Smile Makeover - Transforming your smile into a magazine cover smile
Complete Rehabilitation - rebuilding what disease and decay destroyed
Esthetic Techniques - materials and methods of transformation
Restorative Care - the techniques of reintroducing health, function
Implant Restoration
For whatever reason tooth loss has occurred – ineffective dentistry, lack of prevention (fluoride, flossing, brushing), periodontal disease – modern dentistry can provide permanent tooth replacement with the use of implant technology.
There are many different implant solutions depending on your existing condition. We can replace one tooth, a few teeth or all your teeth with implant dentistry. They will look and feel much more like natural teeth than dentures. Dr. Treva D. Lee using Implant Dentistry can reverse decades of problems in a few hours. Implants have literally given complete functionality back to our patients.
If dentures are still your best option and you want the most life-like and natural result possible, then dentures created by Dr. Treva D. Lee are the answer. Using natural- looking denture teeth, Dr. Lee designs the denture to fit your facial shape and personality. Your teeth look so real that even dentists are fooled.
Who can benefit from a smile makeover? Patients with crowded, crooked or short teeth or those with spaces between many teeth, patients with congenitally underdeveloped or disfigured teeth or an entire smile darkened and stained by tetracycline medicine can quickly and easily see improvements in their smiles.
Because this is a makeover, not just a few front teeth, we are very conscious about how each tooth restoration will affect other teeth and how they function together. Replacing the front six or eight teeth might make the most sense when considering what most people will see when you smile, but only enhancing a few front teeth can mean those new teeth might be prone to break or chip. An esthetic makeover without proper planning and follow through is not in our patients’ best long-term interest.
Since we strive for the highest quality and long-term patient satisfaction, it is difficult to proceed unless the patient approves a comprehensive makeover when warranted. Not every patient needs a comprehensive makeover, but we want to make sure our patients get the care they deserve.
For information on the techniques we use to create a smile makeover go to restorative and esthetic sections below.
There are many reasons why one might need a full dental reconstruction. It can be because periodontal disease has destroyed supporting bone causing the loss of teeth or because of recurrent decay on multiple crowns and bridges. Maybe there are bite problems, which have caused excessive wear on the natural teeth and aggravated the TM jaw joint. Perhaps there has been traumatic injury to the mouth and teeth.
These conditions could warrant a rehabilitation of the entire mouth. Properly diagnosed, planned and executed, this type of dentistry has allowed patients to return to a comfortable, functional, stable oral health. A beautiful smile is an added benefit of this kind of dentistry. In addition, for some of our patients, what we nick-name “Teeth in a Day Technology” allows rehabilitation and cosmetic dentistry to reverse decades of damage in about a day.
We believe patients are best served by taking advantage of our comprehensive expertise right from the beginning. If you are ready for a comprehensive approach, please call us.
For information on the techniques used to bring back health and harmony, go to the restorative and implant sections below.
• Porcelain Veneers
Oftentimes, a straighter, whiter, fuller smile may be possible without braces
and usually in two/three visits with veneers. These porcelain restorations are
lifelike in strength, beauty and function.
• Tooth Contouring/Bonding
Chipped, cracked teeth are refashioned and gaps closed usually in one visit. An
enamel-like resin material is molecularly bonded to your teeth, layer by layer,
to form a durable, natural-like appearance.
• ZOOM! - Professional, in-office Power Teeth Bleaching using the latest technology is the most researched and scientifically proven way to whiten the teeth in the shortest time and the greatest number of shades. After little over an hour, your teeth are far whiter than they ever were. Years of smoking, coffee, and age can be erased. Touch-up treatments are needed since the teeth do continue to age along with the rest of you! Whitening for LifeTM is a terrific way to ensure that your smile stays bright
• Modern Orthodontics/Braces
Depending on the way a smile has developed, braces might be the best and most
effective solution for getting the results desired by the patient. Fortunately,
straightening teeth for adults and children is faster and easier than ever
before with “invisable” clear braces and colored elastics,
“removable” braces, and clear aligners like
INVISALIGN.
• Ceramic Inlays/Onlays
These are amazing breakthroughs in restorative care. Not too long ago we would
have been placing many more crowns. When a tooth deteriorated from disease or
cracked because of an old metal filling, it often required removal of
significant natural tooth structure to securely place a crown. Now, there is an
‘in-between’ solution.
With ceramic onlays or inlays, we remove much less tooth to create an appropriate surface to secure the natural looking, tooth-like material. It’s molecularly bonded for a strong, durable, nature-mimicking result that can withstand the tremendous biting and chewing forces the mouth produces.
• Porcelain Crowns
For many of our patients restoring worn, broken down teeth is possible with
modern esthetic crowns because they are molecularly bonded to your teeth, not
cemented like metal-based crowns. Because they are ALL-porcelain you
won’t ever see a darkened line near the gum line like a metal-based
crown. This is a terrific restoration especially for front
teeth.
• Porcelain Bridges
This natural-looking, missing teeth option can give patients the ability to
remove their removable partial denture for good.
• Tooth-Colored ‘Fillings’
This is the modern, non-metal, healthier alternative to silver mercury fillings
– minimal removable of tooth structure is required. Metal fillings
usually need more space so they can be ‘plugged in’. Composite
resin restorations or tooth-colored ‘fillings’ are molecularly
bonded – creating a fusion of nature and advanced material. It’s
healthy high-tech care.
The bacteria that cause periodontal (gum) disease and tooth decay are constantly present in our mouths. Home care is our first defense against this onslaught. However, brushing and flossing isn’t enough. That’s why we recommend a minimum of two visits each year to our office. Please read our periodontal care information below.
Our hygienist has received professional awards for her gentle and caring skills in controlling periodontal disease. Because it is the leading cause of tooth loss in adults, we are diligent in our approach to making sure periodontal disease doesn’t destroy your smile. If you have noticed bleeding while brushing or flossing, you are experiencing the early stages of the disease. Please call our office and set up an appointment. We have many advanced treatments that can keep the disease from ruining your smile.
(Periodontal disease may significantly impact pregnant individuals or those with diabetes or cardiovascular disease. Individuals with periodontal disease may have significantly increased risk for heart diseases and stroke. Women with periodontitis may have increased risk for delivering pre-term, low birth weight babies. Preliminary evidence suggests that periodontal infections may also be associated with lung disease and other remote site infections.)
We offer many services that make your visit more comfortable and can help you keep your teeth healthy for life. As a comprehensive dental practice with over 600 hours of post-graduate training, we can give you the care you deserve.
• Dentistry for adults and children
• One or two visit root canals
• TMJ (jaw joint) Therapy - to relieve aches and pains
• Evaluate Wisdom Teeth and removal
• Orthodontics - adults and children
• Restorative/Esthetic Dentistry
• Crowns, bridges, veneers, bonding, natural-looking fillings
• Dental Implants
• Cosmetic Dentures & Cosmetic Partials
• Second Opinions
• Periodontal (gum and bone infection) Treatment