When you visit our one of our DCA practices, you’ll notice that it’s different than your typical dental office, even those you visited as recently as five years ago. Our office is replete with sleek, modern equipment that’s quietly performing wellness scans, which we use to protect and maintain our patients’ oral health.
What’s Meant By Wellness Scanning In Dentistry?
Dental wellness scanning uses a suite of digital screening tools to scan a patient’s oral health to detect minor issues before they escalate. Sometimes oral health issues are apparent, sometimes they aren’t. This is called presenting asymptomatically. Oral cancer is one of the most common asymptomatic diseases, and we recommend that everyone who is at least 18 have an oral cancer screening. Issues such as oral cancer and gum disease have a much better prognosis when they’re detected early.
Dental wellness extends far beyond cavities and fillings. Often physical ailments will appear in the mouth before they become serious maladies in other areas of the body. Although a visual exam is important, we believe that an accompanying digital exam will provide a better diagnosis, and therefore, a better prognosis.
Early detection can reduce the severity of any issue that may present asymptomatically, and you’ll have less pain and discomfort, fewer side effects, lower treatment costs, and better future health. Our state-of-the-art equipment enables us to detect and address issues in your body before they escalate.
Our dedication to our patients led us to heavily invest in some of the latest technologies, including:
- Digital Intraoral Scanners:
These scanners create 3D images of teeth and gums in seconds. No messy impressions are involved and the results are almost instantaneous. - Advanced Digital Radiography:
This technique enables us to obtain extremely clear X-ray images but subjects the patient to a substantially lower amount of radiation. - Overjet AI Imaging:
AI can analyze your X-rays almost instantaneously. It can precisely highlight bone loss, decay, and other issues to provide a faster, more accurate diagnosis. - Overjet Voice Perio and Voice Notes:
This technology enables dentists and technicians to chart their readings and notes while conducting their examination. This frees their hands and provides greater focus and more accurate notes, which facilitates a more detailed and accurate diagnosis. - GBT, Or Guided Biofilm Therapy:
When combined with EMS technology, this technique makes teeth cleaning less invasive and more effective by using ultrasonic technology and air polishing to remove biofilm, plaque, and stains. This increases patient comfort and yields healthier gums.
We use dental screening technology to enhance our technicians’ expertise rather than replace it. When we have the most accurate and up-to-date information about a patient’s health, we can provide the best diagnoses and solutions.
Why Are These Things Important?
Maintaining good overall health starts with maintaining good oral health. Consider the following:
- Save More Than Teeth With Early Detection:
Many oral health issues present asymptomatically. That is, you can have the disease for a while without showing any symptoms. Early detection provides a better prognosis and less invasive solutions. It also reduces treatment costs. - The Window To The Body:
Just as your eyes are the window to your soul, the mouth is the window to the physical body. Diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and nutritional deficiencies can appear in your mouth long before they appear in your physical body. Research has proven the correlation between oral health and physical health. Our dental screening technologies can detect physical issues long before they escalate. - Better Input, Better Output:
The accuracy and depth of our digital dental scanning enables our team to build the most precise treatment protocol that’s tailored specifically to your needs. - Increased Patient Comfort:
Our state-of-the-art scans are much more comfortable than traditional scans. They’re also faster and less intimidating, so overall patient comfort is better.
Your Care Is Our Future
Technology continues to advance at lightning speed and we’re dedicated to maintaining our commitment to it and to our investment in the newest equipment and techniques. We believe that using the latest technological advances to maintain our patients’ good oral health should be paramount in our practice. When we can detect problems early and have the best tools available to treat them, we provide our patients with the best advanced dental technology possible.
We want to assure our patients that we’ll strive to maintain state-of-the-art equipment and techniques so that they can receive the smartest, safest, and most compassionate treatments available. Wellness scanning isn’t just a treatment method. To us, it’s a way of life and a commitment to our patients that we’ll provide them with the absolute best dental treatments available so that they have the best overall health possible.
If you’re looking for one of the best DCA practices in the area, call us. We’re sure you’ll be happy and impressed with the level of care you receive and our comprehensive, compassionate methods in our state-of-the-art facility. Call us today, we look forward to speaking with you.
