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Cone Beam imaging systems produce panoramic, 3D images of your face and jaw. A comprehensive scan of your oral environment takes less than a minute. The images render a clear view of the oral environment. With Cone Beam, our doctors can assess additional metrics, such as bone volume, nerve placement, and sinus health. This information is crucial for the planning of surgical procedures like dental implants. 

Obtaining a comprehensive view of your mouth is critical to your long term health. It allows our doctors to discover illness at early stages and provide treatment to keep your smile healthy and beautiful.

Digital x-rays are one of the ways in which we can provide you with a better patient experience. This technology eliminates traditional film and transmits images of your mouth directly to our computer, resulting in:

• Less time needed to take x-rays
• Shorter periodontal visits
• Less exposure to radiation
• Enhanced images for improved insight into your health

Tissue Growth Factors are used primarily in bone and soft tissue regeneration. It is a technique that uses a small amount of the patients own blood to isolate crucial proteins that stimulate healing, foster new bone growth, and repair soft tissue in surgical sites. And, because tissue growth factors are derived from the patient’s own blood and tissue, the process is very safe with little risk of disease transmission or rejection from the donor.

Tissue growth factors are considered a breakthrough in bone and soft tissue regeneration because it permits the body to take advantage of the normal healing pathways at a greatly accelerated rate. When the body is wounded and needs to heal, many different cells and cell-types are rushed to the site of the injury. These cells initiate the healing process by forming blood clots and releasing growth factors into the wound. The more growth factors that are introduced to the wound, the quicker and more efficiently the body is able to heal.

Patients who have lost teeth in the upper premolar or molar areas of the jaw often require a sinus lift, or sinus augmentation, in order to have dental implants placed. This can be due to circumstances in which the bone in the area where teeth are missing naturally beings to shrink or resorb over time, the roots of the teeth were originally positioned either very close to or within the sinus cavity, or the vertical height of the bone is not sufficient enough to support an implant. As a result of bone loss, the sinuses can expand to occupy the empty space where the bone used to be. With insufficient bone to securely place a dental implant, a sinus lift is necessary to move the sinus away from the roots of the teeth or to create additional bone in the area.

A sinus lift introduces bone grafting material into the sinus to reposition the sinus cavity to its proper position. The grafting material forms new bone in which a dental implant can be placed.

When one or more teeth are extracted from the mouth, soft tissue and bone can begin to regress or collapse. Without the tooth root to stimulate it, the surrounding jaw bone will often begin to deteriorate shortly following the loss of a tooth. If there is significant bone loss, it may be impossible to place dental implants and may become more expensive, invasive, and time consuming to replace the lost bone. Loss of bone can lead to depressions or unevenness within the ridge, as its form is supported by the contour of the underlying bone. Ridge (or socket) preservation is a type of bone grafting procedure that rebuilds and stabilizes bone where an extraction has left an empty socket. It is recommended to have a ridge preservation procedure performed at the time of an extraction, as it helps to promote the esthetics of the ridge and avoid bony defects.

Ridge augmentation is a common procedure performed to help recreate the natural contour of the gums. Often, after a tooth is removed, the bone in the jaw will begin to deteriorate and recede. The height and width of the socket, which was supported by the tooth, will begin to shrink after the tooth is removed. Many patients will eventually develop an indentation in the gums where the tooth used to be as a result of tooth and bone loss.

Ridge augmentation is typically used to increase the amount of bone tissue in areas of deficit for tooth replacement, so that the teeth appear to rise from the gum tissues. This procedure may be necessary in order to place a dental implant. If the bone tissue has deteriorated too much, placing a dental implant may not be possible without an additional procedure.