For an IV sedation patient is #1 maybe given something at night the night before to get a good night’s rest. They will be prepared by Dr. Atlas of what they can eat or drink and far in advance they need to stop eating and drinking, and basically that’s the only preparation they need. Then they need to come in and we’ll take over and make them comfortable and predictably get them through the treatment.
A smile makeover is something that we do at Aesthetic Dental Care of New Jersey frequently, and it is a situation that someone may come in that’s unhappy with their appearance and they want to have a new white smiling appearance. And we want to go ahead and figure out how can we go ahead and do that and deliver it in the least amount of treatment. Most common procedure probably are the porcelain veneers and the empress porcelain crowns. We do mostly now a metal-free dentistry, we no longer are using any of the metals that people are used to having in their mouths 10, 20, 30 years ago, and we’re now using porcelain-based materials that are very nice, the materials have come a long way over the years and we’re getting terrific results with them.
At Aesthetic Dental Care really anyone who’s unhappy with their smile is a candidate for a smile makeover, so whether that’s the typical fellow who’s out there and just decides all of a sudden he wants to have a new look in his life, he may be looking for something giving him more self confidence. Somebody who’s looking for a new job or somebody who just wants to have the appearance that’s gonna take them to the next level. And we’ve had people that’ve come in, they’ve had the smile makeovers, and it really goes ahead and enhances their careers.
Mac Veneers is a group that’s based at Microdental Laboratories in California and they are the leading group of porcelain veneers and they make the finest porcelain veneers. It’s a level up from conventional dentistry. These are technicians that are very very skilled in porcelain veneers, they’re very skilled in smile makeovers, and we’ve been using them for a long time because they’re top of the line and they are very very good at what they do and they are very very good at getting wonderful results.
At Aesthetic Dental Care we do a lot of teeth whitening. We use a process called Zoom Whitening, and people that have teeth that are in good condition but just a little dull, maybe a little bit yellow, over time maybe have gotten a little bit more yellowish, they’ve noticed it. And in a setting of maybe an hour we can go ahead, use the zoom, and we can whiten their teeth. If they want to enhance it we can go ahead and make trays and they can go ahead and make trays and they can go to the next level and they can have them as white as they would like.
Invisalign is a form of orthodontic treatment that allows us without metal braces to reposition teeth. It’s a orthodontic form that allows a change from teeth that are very crowded or malpositioned that we can go ahead and use aligners over time instead of conventional metal braces.
The sterilization procedures are such that most of whatever we can use that are disposable, we will use disposable instruments and many times people will come in and see plastic all over the place because that can be turned over for each person. We use heat sterilization so all of the instruments that are not disposable are all heat sterilized so that there’s no possibility of conveying any bacteria from one person to another.
The neuromuscular approach has been a great benefit to both myself and to my patients that come in in pain, and there are many patients that are out there with TMJ problems, with neck pain, shoulder pain. Many of the symptoms that result from a bad bite. And with the neuromuscular approach which is different than a conventional approach we can go ahead and find the problems and treat them very conventionally and get people out of pain in a hurry. And it’s a very nice approach that I taught by LVI again the premiere postgraduate study where you can learn cutting edge dentistry, and this is truly cutting edge dentistry, and changes lives, it truly it changes lives.
TMJ is an acronym for tempero mandibular joint, which is a joint that people are well aware of because many people have problems with it. They are in pain either upon opening or on closing. Some people are in constant pain. But it also produces many other problems that people have to deal with. TMJ pain can be related to headache, shoulder pain, neck pain. TMJ pain is a real thing that many many people have whether they’re stressed, whether they’ve had some trauma over the years. There are a plethora of reasons why people experience TMJ pain, but it can be treated. TMJ problems have been treated over the years with many many different types of approaches. I find at Aesthetic Dental Care that we can go ahead and treat people fairly predictably and successfully with the neuromuscular approach.
TMJ problems can be very debilitating. Those people with true TMJ problems are in pain. They’re in pain 24 hours a day. Their life is compromised, and it can overwhelm them. So in order to really help these people you have to identify what the problems are and you have to have some kind of resolve for them. And with the neuromuscular approach we can go ahead and deliver care that will change their lives.
