Restorative

Tooth Colored Filings

When it is necessary to remove decay or replace an old worn amalgam (silver) metal filling, we place a variety of tooth colored restorations. These resin fillings not only restore and protect the health of your teeth, but enhance the beauty of your smile for years to come.

Porcelain Crowns

Occasionly when a tooth is badly fractured, when we discover extensive decay, or when an old large filling breaks, we need to place a porcelain fused to gold alloy crown. If we do not have a sufficient amount of natural tooth structure available, we can use these beautiful restorations to repair your smile. With the minimum of reduction of natural tooth structure, we can create a beautiful restoration that can last decades.

Lumineers

Lumineers are the most wonderful restoration to be developed in our lifetime. All of our dentists are certified to place lumineers and have a great deal of experience. Lumineer are ultra thin porcelain veneers that cover the surface of an anterior tooth usually without the need for drilling or anesthesia (needles). Lumineers can be used to fill gaps in a smile, straighten teeth and enhance the color of your teeth. Please call the office for a free consultation.

Lumineers are the finest cosmetic restoration. Without compromising tooth structure, with minimum or no tooth reduction, we can simply apply these restorations to cover any discolored, misaligned, or fractured anterior tooth.
Lumineers are remarkably strong and long lasting. Lumineers offer the most aestheticly pleasing result for any cosmetic condition. Please take advantage of our free consultation to see if we can help you get a "movie star smile."

Prosthetic

Porcelain Crowns

Occasionly when a tooth is badly fractured, when we discover extensive decay, or when an old large filling breaks, we need to place a porcelain fused to gold alloy crown. If we do not have a sufficient amount of natural tooth structure available, we can use these beautiful restorations to repair your smile. With the minimum of reduction of natural tooth structure, we can create a beautiful restoration that can last decades.

Missing teeth

If a tooth has been lost, we have several options to replace the missing tooth (teeth)

1. We can use implants which are describe in a separate section.
2. We can use a fixed bridge technique where we construct a single restoration that is permanently cemented onto teeth immediately adjacent to the missing area. The location and the number of missing teeth dictate the individual design of each bridge. The bridge is made of a very strong gold alloy completely covered by tooth colored porcelain to provide our patients with a strong, durable and beautiful restoration.
3. If there are no teeth available we can offer to fabricate a partial denture either to provide a temporary relief to tooth loss or as a permanent replacement of teeth. This is used when the arrangement of remaining teeth do not allow a design for fixed bridgework. As with a full denture, a partial denture needs to be removed when a patient sleeps.

Bridges

When confronted with a missing tooth we have many reasons to replace it. Having a missing tooth can compromise your appearance, your ability to chew, and your ability to speak. If we have sound and strong teeth on both sides of where a tooth has been lost, in most cases we can construct a “bridge.” A bridge is permanently cemented and does not come in and out at night. We design a bridge specific to the individual’s situation…bridge technique has been in use for decades and we are happy to discuss your needs by consultation.

Implants

Implants are placed when we wish to replace missing teeth when fixed bridgework is not desired nor impossible. implants can replace teeth with disturbing adjacent teeth. Implant designs can be used to secure a loose fitting denture.

Implants and their restorations take about 3-4 months to complete. The initial part of the procedure involves our Oral Surgeon placing an implant in bone and allowing it to fuse with the bone over a period of about three months. Following this period, we then restore the implant using an abutment and crown to recreate a beautiful and long lasting smile.Please cal our office for a free consultation.

Partial Dentures

When faced with several teeth having been lost, we can use the remaining teeth to support a partial denture. This can be used for a long term or simply as a temporary restoration while awaiting the fabrication of fixed bridgework or implants.

Full Dentures

When confronted with a situation where teeth and / or periodontium is severely compromised, we can fabricate a full denture. We have several types , but most assuredly we have immediate dentures so it is unnecessary to walk around without teeth while a permanent denture is fabricated, thus avoiding the embarrassment of being edentulous in public.

Most important is the understanding that a poor fitting lower denture is no longer a “dead end” or hopeless condition. Please ask us how we can integrate implants into a denture to make it secure and retentive.

Pediatric dentistry

The Doctors in our office are all parents... and we have a special commitment to helping our youngest patients.

Preventive Pediatric Care

The finest way to have a healthy adult dentition is maintaining a proper primary dentition. We emphasize a total homecare regimen. We rarely observe cavities in young people when we have parents commited to routine visits with our hygienist, sealants and fluorides.

Comprehensive

With our advances in preventive care, we ensure your child's treatment is rarely more than routine visit. We stress the cooperation of parents and young patients with regard to homecare and prevention. We use fluorides (agents used to prevent cavities) judiciously , emphasize proper homecare and monitor eruption patterns for possible orthodontic needs.

Sealants

We recommend sealants for the permanent posterior teeth in all youngsters where the most common cavities occur. The very thin sealant is placed on the surface of a tooth to protect it from bacteria settling in the pits and anatomical fissures in the tooth’s enamel. Sadly, when not placed on permanent molars we see an extremely high rate of caries (cavities). We suggest sealants on most children.

Fluoride

In conjunction with good homecare, fluoride is our leading method to prevent tooth decay. We find it in all of the toothpastes we recommend and apply a very strong concentration to the teeth of young patients during visits to our hygienists. Under special circumstances we recommend powerful fluoride rinses, gels, or toothpastes to inhibit cavities in patients prone to tooth decay. Patients with orthodontics or a history of tooth decay are the likely candidates.

We prescribe multi- vitamins with fluoride to all youngsters between 3 and 11 years of age to protect permanent teeth developing that have yet to erupt above the gum line. These fluoride vitamins strengthen permanent teeth well before being exposed to the sugars in our diet.

Space Maintenance

We are commited to being aware of eruption and loss patterns in a young person's mouth. This sequence is very important to ensure orthodontics , if necessary, procedes in a routine manner with thh finest of outcomes. Premature loss of primary teeth can sometimes cause difficult circumstances for our young patients, we are observant to use space maintenance to maintian proper alignment of teeth.

Cosmetic dentistry

Dentistry today incorporates cosmetics in each and every restorative procedure. We strive for the finest visual and esthetic outcome for our patients. In addition to the previously mentioned restorations. We offer tooth whitening (bleaching).

Teeth Whitening

We offer several services for this treatment. whiter teeth make you feel better and look more youthful.

1. Custom take home bleaching trays and kits. The most common and financially reasonable method to whiten your teeth. We make impressions of your mouth to make a comfortable trays to retain bleaching solutions to whiten your teeth at night. Optimum results appear after about two weeks of use and then "touch ups" are done about once a week to maintain the lightened shade.
2. If you have that wedding or party to go to "tomorrow!" We also offer Zoom! and Britesmile one hour teeth whitening techniques.

Please call our office for a consultation to decide which is the best technique for you.

Periodontal Care

Periodontium is the "foundation of your mouth." It refers to your "gums" and the bone that anchors your teeth securely in your mouth. Failing to maintain healthy periodontal tissue is analogus to building a house on quicksand. The only way to properly evaluate the health of your gum tissue is to take pocket readings and radiographs, and maintain properly scheduled appointments with our hygientist. Periodontal disease is the leading cause of tooth loss.

Scaling & Root Planing

This treatment is performed when bacteria invades the cuff of gum tissue around a tooth. It is usually found in a generalized manner throughout the mouth. Bacteria, if not removed, destroys the bone supporting your teeth. This is periodontal disease has symptoms of bleeding gums, bad breath, pus, redness of gums, tooth mobility, and more.

Scaling and root planing involves our hygienists using special instruments to remove the bacteria from the roots of your teeth, thus creating an environment where gum tissue can heal and be maintained. Failure to treat this disease leads to loss of teeth.

Peridodontal Treatments

Our gum tissue (periodontium) covers the bone that retains our teeth in our mouth. Without proper maintenance of our gum tissue, we could losse our teeth.

If neglected, gum tissue becomes infected and has many symptoms including bad breath, bleeding and swelling, and purulent exudate (pus). Obviously no one wants these symptoms and the only way to eradicate this disease is to visit a dentist.

We offer an array of the latest treatment methods dictated by the extent of the disease present.

We can help you save your teeth by treating the periodontal problems and giving you a maintenance program for continued care of your teeth.

Oral Surgery

Our Board Certified Surgeon practices comprehensive care. We offer conscious sedation for your comfort. Whether it is a simple extraction or an impacted wisdom tooth, Dr. Auerbach is a careful surgeon and commited to his profession. We offer a complete spectrum of Oral Surgery including Implants.

Implants

Implants are placed when we wish to replace missing teeth when fixed bridgework is not desired nor impossible. implants can replace teeth with disturbing adjacent teeth. Implant designs can be used to secure a loose fitting denture.

Implants and their restorations take about 3-4 months to complete. The initial part of the procedure involves our Oral Surgeon placing an implant in bone and allowing it to fuse with the bone over a period of about three months. Following this period, we then restore the implant using an abutment and crown to recreate a beautiful and long lasting smile.Please cal our office for a free consultation.

Root Canals

Formally known as endodontic therapy, root canals are a reliable procedure to save a tooth badly damaged by decay. We have developed techniques to comfortably achieve our goals. When decay reaches the pulp of a tooth (the nerve), we cannot simply place a filling. Usually in a single visit, we can painlessly clean in the internal aspects of the tooth and prevent a further infection. Most often an tooth in need of a root canal will also need a crown as a restoration.

Orthodontics

Braces are not for just teenagers! More than half of our patients are over 25! Please request a no obligation consultation from our orthodontist.

Traditional Orthodontic Treatment

For most adults, you know what this is all about! But we offer clear braces (brackets) for our patients who wish to straighten their teeth with a minimal metal appearance. Treatment varies in length from 18-24 months in most cases and this can be best determined by our Orthodontist.

Invisalign

Wow! Did you ever think you could get straight teeth without wires and brackets? Absolutely discreet, a series Invisalign trays (clear retainers, custom individually generated by a computer ) gently move your teeth to a new more beautiful alignment. All you do is come to the office every six to eight weeks for us to check your progress and give you the next in the series of trays. It's been revolutionary! Please call for a complimentary consultation.

Emergency Service

All of the doctors in our office understand the responsibilities we have. We maintain a 24 hour emergency network, where there is always at least one doctor on call for help.