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Sedation Dentistry – Port City Family Dentistry Sometimes the pain of an operation is too much to bear, and anesthesia must be applied. Sometimes pain is not the issue – it is fear or apprehension, which causes the patient to think he or she feels more pain than is real, or does not fully trust or understand the impending procedure.…
Nitrous Oxide Sedation – Port City Family Dentistry Commonly known as “laughing gas,” nitrous oxide sedation is employed by dentists everywhere to relax their patients. This gas has the effect of reducing anxiety problems greatly. When combined with oxygen, this form of sedation causes patients to feel uncontrollably happy and excited, to the point where it is an involuntary reaction…
Full dentures – Port City Family Dentistry Dentures are suitable options for people of all ages who require many new teeth, whether that is due to decay, necessary removal, damage, or accidental loss of teeth. Full dentures are required when there are too many missing teeth to form a bridge or it is not feasible to create partial dentures. Often…
Partial Dentures – Port City Family Dentistry The normal belief among most people is that dentures are removable full sets of teeth that grandparents take out at night and put in a glass of water. The fact is that dentures don’t always have to be a full set of teeth. Bridges, which are porcelain sets of false teeth which literally…
Full mouth reconstruction–Port City Family Dentistry In cases of intense decay or damage to a great number of a person’s teeth, he or she may want to consider full mouth reconstruction. This process is exactly what it sounds like – all of the teeth, and rarely the jaw, are reconstructed. Such a process takes a long time to complete and…
Scaling and Root Planing–Port City Family Dentistry Colloquially known as deep cleaning, the process of scaling and root planing extracts plaque from the surface of the roots and/or crowns. The instrument used for scaling, called a hand scaler, is one of the most iconic dentist tools. The removal of plaque is necessary to prevent disease in many cases. This procedure…
Extractions – Port City Family Dentistry Tooth extractions occur mainly when a tooth (or more accurately, the root or gums) becomes infected so much that a root canal is not feasible. Extractions may also be performed if the tooth has corroded too much to be worth trying to repair, or if a tooth is growing in too close to other…
Root Canal Therapy – Port City Family Dentistry Root canal therapy, also called endodontic therapy or more commonly shortened to just root canal, is the procedure in which a dentist treats a patient’s infected tooth by drilling open the surface, extracting any infected pulp in the tooth’s root canal, and filling it with a replacement substance. As such, the resulting…
Sealants – Port City Family Dentistry Dental sealant are layers of plastic that are used for aesthetic purposes, as well as creating a protective layer against plaque. The substance of sealant is different from that of veneer, which accomplishes a similar task. Sealants are almost always placed on the back teeth (i.e. molars) to aid in chewing. This procedure acts…