Wasatch Gentle Dental

2011-09-22T09:39:00.004-06:00

Checking For Skin Cancer on the Head and Neck

There are many reasons to have a dental check-up every 6 months. The main reason is to clean the tartar off your teeth and check your gums, but many of you may not know that we also check for oral cancer and skin cancer. This year we have seen a spike in skin cancer. During a check-up we may see a skin lesion that could be skin cancer. At that time we will tell you and recommend the proper medical professional that you should see to get checked further. If you have not had a check-up recently call us today and make an appointment.

2011-08-01T12:20:00.002-06:00

In today’s society the way your smile looks can really affect how you feel about yourself. Everyone wants beautiful white teeth. They also want to spend as little time at the dentist as possible. Here at Wasatch Gentle Dental and Orthodontics we understand that and want to offer to you state of the art CEREC technology. This new and exciting technology allows us to place beautiful, strong long lasting crowns, inlays and onlays. Furthermore, new bonding techniques allow us to retain a greater percentage of the natural tooth structure. Using an optical impression obtained with a specialized digital camera and milling the restoration in-house, we are now able to complete a restoration in a single appointment, so that you can quickly get back to the fun things in life and show off your new beautiful smile.

2011-07-26T10:10:00.006-06:00

Chipped teeth

It took a little while but summer is here and in full swing. The warm weather feels so good after the cold, wet spring. People are spending more time outside enjoying great summer activities. With all the fun people are having outside, a number of our patient have had dental injuries. I have seen a wide array of different injuries from cuts on the mouth and lip to fractured teeth. The causes for all these injuries have been from playing Frisbee, sports such as baseball and football, to just walking and then tripping over something. Though many of these accidents could not have been prevented we have found that if an athletic mouth-guard is worn during a sporting event that 40% of all oral injuries would be prevented. This is a significant decrease in broken teeth. Now that you have decided that a mouth-guard should be used, which one is the best? If you go to the store they sell nice “boil and bite” type mouth-guards. They work ok and will be a step up from nothing. The best type of mouth-guard is a custom made mouth-guard fabricated by the dentist. This mouth-guard will fit better and protect your teeth which will almost eliminate any injury to your teeth. Come on in and see us to have your custom mouth-guard made.

3D Summit at the Scottsdale Center for Dentistery

2010-03-12T16:59:00.002-07:00

Last week I went to the 3D Summit put on by Sirona. It was very interesting seminar. It was all about a new technology of x-rays. It will allow the dentist or dental surgeon to view the upper and lower jaw in 3D. This will improve the ability of the surgeon to view the surgical site. This will decrease the chance of a poor placement of the implant and thus improve the aesthetic result of the restoration.

This seminar gave me 6.5 hours of CE which gives me 32.5 hours of CE for the year.

Progressive Orthodontics 2010 Update

2010-03-01T19:03:00.002-07:00

This past weekend I went to Califorina to attend Progressive Orthodontics annual update seminar. Each year the inventor of the IP appliance (Individual Patient Appliance) and the founder of Progressive Orthodontics Seminars present new information to make treatment faster and produce better results. This year the seminar was on dealing with non-cooperative patients. We talked about different treatment techniques that would allow us to get the perfect smile without the use of elastics, the decreased need for orthodontic surgery, decreased time of treatment and the use of less force which will cause less discomfort.

As many of you know I am also an instructor for Progressive Orthodontics. I have been able to teach all over America. This April I will start teaching overseas. I head to Europe and will be heading to Asia in the near future. If at anytime you would like to come on in for an orthodontic consultation, give us a call. All orthodontic consultations are free of charge.

With this weekends course I earned 16 CE hours which brings my CE hours to 26 for the year.

Utah Dental Association Convention

2010-02-21T19:16:00.002-07:00

This week was the Utah Dental Convention. The convention was on Thursday and Friday. I was able to attend the convention on Friday. I went to the "Enteral Conscious Sedation Review" This is a seminar that all dentists that provide sedation to their patients must take every 3 years. It was a very good course. Most of it was a review. There were a few nuggets of information that will allow me to treat my adult patients in a more relaxing and comfortable manner. If you are someone looking for a more pleasant dental visit then give us a call because we would love to see you.

As a dentist we are required to receive 30 hours of CE every year. I tend to get a great deal more. So far I have received 10 hours of CE this year.

Seattle Seminar

2010-01-30T21:23:00.002-07:00

Last week I had the opportunity to travel to Seattle and teach a one day seminar to 30 dentists. It was a great group of highly educated Doctors. The doctors asked great questions and I was able to open their minds to the world of orthodontics. As you may or may not know, I am an instructor for Progressive Orthodontics. I have been able to travel from coast to coast and also to Asia to teach orthodontics. Teaching has been a wonderful experience. I am able to see many doctors increase their ability to treat all kinds of patients. I see orthodontics as a way to give esthetic treatment without removing healthy enamel.

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2009-12-26T21:47:00.000-07:00

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