If your smile is impacted by chipped, lost, decayed, or ailing teeth, your daily eating and talking might be negatively affected by it, making you less sure of your appearance. Your confidence as well as your oral health can be restored through restorative care. The entire restoration treatment process at Prostho Endo Dental Group begins with planning and diagnostic testing, and it includes an awareness of how the whole bite is influenced by every tooth in your mouth. Patients in North Bethesda, MD, are likely to receive comprehensive treatment, not just a local fix. Treatment in our practice is based on the stability of your bite as well as the aesthetics of your smile as a whole. It looks long-term.
Restorative Treatment Plans Should Include Evaluation & Planning
In restorative dentistry, a thorough understanding of the situation is the beginning of a successful outcome. Prostho Endo Dental Group assesses not only your teeth, but also your gums, the way your teeth come together when you bite, existing restorations, jawbone stability, and total mouth health prior to suggesting any specific treatment. With this information, the team will be able to determine not just what needs to be treated, but also the reason why you may be suffering from it now.
Sometimes one specific part of a mouth, such as a cracked tooth, failing crown, or worn filling, seems like an isolated problem. These problems can be the outcome of a number of causes, including bite misalignment, clenching habits, cavities, periodontal (gum) disease, or prior dental work that’s not functioning properly. In order to determine the best possible results for your restoration, the treatment needs to be planned carefully. That way, the team can recommend something that is going to work for the long run, as opposed to just for a limited time.
Restorative Treatment Is All About Function, Health, & Beauty
Restorative dental care involves much more than simply mending teeth. It is all about helping you regain control and enjoy a full, normal life again, with more ease and assurance. It can be daunting to eat dinner or have a conversation when teeth don’t feel right in your mouth, or when teeth are chipped, broken, or have been lost, or when they are simply experiencing discomfort.
Restorative treatment might consist of filling cavities, repairing teeth that have eroded or broken away over time, replacing teeth that have fallen out, fixing parts of teeth that have been damaged, or simply getting your teeth to sit correctly when you bite down. In order to strengthen your bite and give it stability, restorative dentistry also strives to provide natural-looking teeth that match your existing dentition.
The team at Prostho Endo Dental Group hopes that each patient receives the information they need to feel confident as well as involved in their treatment. Patients want to know about what is going on and why. They would like to know what their various options are. And they want to understand what each alternative can do for their long-term dental health.
Tooth-Colored Restorations & Minimally Invasive Dentistry
Ideally, restorative work should keep sound tooth structure intact and do so with minimal damage. The use of tooth-colored materials allows Prostho Endo Dental Group to treat areas where decay and other problems are present, while ensuring that the repaired portion will blend well with the rest of your dental work. Tooth-colored materials are employed for dental filling, bonding, and restorative treatments, to name a few, depending on the condition of the tooth.
Minimally invasive or conservative dentistry involves performing only what must be done in order to treat and restore a tooth to full health. This is why the team at Prostho Endo Dental Group must consider whether a tooth is repairable with a smaller restoration or whether a crown or other additional support is needed. Whether or not a tooth is appropriate for a specific restoration depends on the extent of remaining tooth structure, which tooth it is, and the amount of pressure it must withstand. The decision should also take into consideration how your overall dental health looks in the future.
Long-Lasting Replacement Of Missing Teeth
The absence of natural teeth can have negative implications for more than just the aesthetic aspect of a smile. Missing teeth can also throw off the harmony of your entire bite by putting additional strain on the adjacent teeth, triggering shifts in the underlying bone, and rendering mastication more challenging. At Prostho Endo Dental Group, we offer restorative options for replacing missing teeth that promote function as well as cosmetics.
Based on your particular dental needs and requirements, Prostho Endo Dental Group may be able to offer you any of the following restorative procedures: dental bridges, dental implants, implant-supported restorations, and any number of other tailored solutions. Your teeth and surrounding bone strength are evaluated before a course of treatment is prescribed. Additionally, your bite is examined, as is your personal treatment preference. It all contributes to a final, restorative result that is stable, comfortable, and planned for you.
Advanced Diagnostics For Better Outcomes
The quality of restorative dentistry begins with accurate diagnosis. Digital x-ray and clinical examinations, combined with dental x-rays, often reveal problems that go unnoticed during a visual examination alone. For example, these diagnostic tools show signs of secondary decay, bone loss or infection, fractured teeth, and teeth with failed margins that aren’t necessarily apparent during routine dental inspections.
In many ways, advanced diagnostics are necessary for the most effective restorative treatment. Prostho Endo Dental Group plans treatments with these advanced diagnostic tools to better ensure predictable, efficient, and appropriate treatment for your needs.
Preventing Future Failures Through Comprehensive Care
Another major goal for restorative dentistry is preventing the same problem from occurring again. If the root cause of a tooth problem remains untreated, the patient may experience the same issue again in the future. For instance, if a patient experiences tooth decay that leads to restoration failure, that same problem is likely to recur unless it is addressed at the source. Likewise, if the patient suffers from tooth grinding (bruxism), that patient might continue to grind down restorations unless the patient also learns how to manage the bite forces.
To this end, Prostho Endo Dental Group may conduct additional diagnostics or evaluations to determine the underlying cause of dental trouble. For example, additional exams may be taken to evaluate a patient’s oral hygiene habits, gum health, bite alignment, teeth grinding and clenching, diet, and maintenance routines. These are the types of comprehensive dental care that are often necessary to prevent tooth restorations from failing in the future.
Restoring Complex Dental Conditions
Most patients require treatment for just one tooth, but some patients have more than one tooth that needs restoring or repairing. Some patients even have a history of extensive dental work, or they have teeth that are worn, missing, or have been root canal treated. In many instances, restorative dentistry is the solution for a patient with collapsing bites and/or multiple failing dental restorations.
For many patients in North Bethesda, MD, Prostho Endo Dental Group offers comprehensive restorative dentistry for those who require complex care. The clinic is able to provide these more complex restorations because of the combination of dental, prosthodontic, and endodontic knowledge that is part of the team. This allows the clinic to think holistically about how the teeth, roots, restorations, gums, and bites all work together as a system.
The Value Of Customized Treatment Approaches
Every restorative patient is different from every other restorative patient. A restorative treatment that worked for one patient in the past may not be the best treatment for the next patient. That is why Prostho Endo Dental Group designs individualized restorative treatments for each patient. Each patient receives a treatment plan that is designed according to the patient’s oral health, their desires, their comfort zone, their treatment timeline, and their budget.
In many cases, an individualized treatment plan includes more than a single treatment or procedure. For example, a customized care treatment plan may prioritize some of your dental needs over others. Or, some patients may need more than one dental treatment at a time. The clinic can develop a comprehensive and customized restorative treatment plan for those who have a history of complex dental problems or who need many different treatments at once.
When Other Dentistry Doesn't Work, We Find Solutions
When you select restorative dentistry, you are choosing to protect your oral health and enhance your overall health as well. Prostho Endo Dental Group offers thoughtful, custom restorative dentistry for those who seek more than the bare minimum. With extensive restorative treatment planning, advanced digital diagnostics, and a multi-faceted clinical team, this restorative clinic provides patients with comprehensive restorative dentistry that is both functional, aesthetic, and long-lasting.
For patients who have suffered from dental trauma, dental decay, tooth loss, broken or cracked teeth, failing dental work, or a collapsing bite, Prostho Endo Dental Group can help. If your smile needs repair, you don’t have to settle for just a simple fix. The clinic can help you understand the many treatment options available for restoring your smile so you can feel more confident about your dental health and your dental treatment.