Schedule APPOINTMENT
If you desire a dazzling and healthy smile, you need to begin with the foundational golden rule of dentistry – regular check-ups at Great Lakes Dental Excellence, where our qualified staff will perform a comprehensive professional dental cleaning and exam. This type of visit should be done twice a year, or more frequently depending on your oral health and your dentist’s recommendations.
Without standard dental cleanings, you put your oral health at risk for tooth decay and other dental problems due to the accumulation of harmful bacteria. While your oral hygiene at home is of extreme importance, following the guidelines regarding dental check-ups will eliminate many time-consuming and costly issues, such as gum disease or tooth decay. Your teeth and gums provide favorable conditions for plaque deposits that are rich in bacteria and destroy your tooth tissue.
Dental cleanings and exams include the following:
As part of the package, our dental home offers a wide variety of preventative and hygienic treatments to keep your smile happy and healthy. There is no need for anesthesia as the cleaning procedures are pain-free. Some patients have a higher teeth sensitivity, which might lead to slight discomfort when performing professional dental cleaning by one of our qualified dental hygienists.
Tartar on your teeth is a mineralized plaque that cannot be removed at home. It is a fairly common phenomenon and often treated as a norm. Meanwhile, the truth is quite brutal: the cause of tartar is insufficient oral hygiene. If your teeth are not brushed regularly, too rarely, or incorrectly, a soft deposit will appear on their surface. At this point, it can still be eliminated by thorough brushing and flossing, but when mineralization (hardening) occurs, home methods alone will not help.
Tartar removal, or professionally speaking – scaling, is performed with an ultrasonic scaler that breaks up the plaque. Make sure your dentist is aware of all your medical conditions before performing dental cleaning, as certain contraindications to using an ultrasonic scaler exist, such as pacemakers. Typically, after scaling, a sandblasting procedure is performed to remove deposits from the tooth surface. Other dental hand tools assist in your comprehensive dental cleaning.
Teeth polishing is one of the stages of your professional dental cleaning, which is used to smooth the surface of your teeth. As a rule, polishing is performed after sandblasting and makes it possible to eliminate unevenness on the previously cleaned teeth surface. As a result of the treatment, your teeth become smooth and shiny.
Our digital X-rays and impressions are designed for the comfort of our patients.
No dental insurance? No problem. Dental care is affordable with our interest-free financing options.
Our digital scans eliminate unpleasant, goopy impression material while increasing accuracy.
Your records are safe at our digital, paperless, and eco-friendly dental office. Protected health information is guaranteed.
Our team is made up of caring, helpful, and knowledgeable individuals that offer gentle dental care. Customer service at its finest.
Our team is trained to not only treat oral health problems but also provide top preventative services.
Dental exams are not only attributed to your oral health. Regular dental checkups benefit your overall general health, since many of the first signs of systemic diseases, such as diabetes or rheumatoid arthritis, may appear in your mouth before materializing anywhere else in your body. It is often the dentist who first recommends further specialist consultations upon noticing alarming changes in your mouth.
Dental exams, when performed on a regular basis, can quickly and efficiently catch any early signs of oral disease, tooth damage, or other problems related to your health.
We begin the oral examination by checking the health of the upper and lower lips and the mouth vestibule. Our dentist assesses the condition of cheek mucosa, gums, and your child’s tongue – its size, mobility, color, and shape. A vital element of intraoral examination is to determine the state of oral hygiene. The final stage includes the assessment of your child’s dentition by using a mirror and a probe. During the check-up, we note the number of teeth, size, shape, color, and condition of the hard tissues of the existing teeth, as well as examine the areas of missing teeth. The timeline of tooth eruption is another key aspect of dental examination among children.
Our digital X-rays and impressions are designed for the comfort of our patients.
No dental insurance? No problem. Dental care is affordable with our interest-free financing options.
Our digital scans eliminate unpleasant, goopy impression material while increasing accuracy.
Your records are safe at our digital, paperless, and eco-friendly dental office. Protected health information is guaranteed.
Our team is made up of caring, helpful, and knowledgeable individuals that offer gentle dental care. Customer service at its finest.
Our team is trained to not only treat oral health problems but also provide top preventative services.
