Our Technology.
We pride ourselves in learning and adapting to the most modern techniques in dentistry. By investing in modern technology, we are able to improve our patient’s experience while ensuring that we deliver exceptional work. Below, you can read about some of our technology that helps us perform comfortable, fast and precise dental care.
Guided Implant Surgery
We place implants using the revolutionary X-Nav Guide. This allows us to have more control and precision in our dental implant procedures. In just a few simple steps, The X-Nav Guide provides a highly accurate implant to serve our patients with a quick and stress-free implant procedure.
Patients often don’t realize how important it is to place an implant in the planned location as accurately as possible. Placing an implant at a tilt, 1 mm too deep or too far to the side can have drastic implications in the long-term success of the implant as well as the end aesthetic result. Patients looking to have an implant placed at our clinic would have a special scan done that builds a 3-D model of their jaws. From there, we digitally plan the placement of the x-ray by taking into consideration not just available bone density and surrounding vital structures but also final aesthetic result and long-term success. Once the surgery is properly planned we have the patient brought in and we perform the surgery with a tracking device placed overhead that indicates if the implant is being placed on a tilt, off to the side, and indicates the depth of our drill, all in real time.
Research shows that even the most experienced surgeon will usually place the implant with over 10 degrees of tilt and too far towards the side of their dominant eye. With this machine, implants are placed within the same directional mm of where it was planned and with less than 10 degrees of tilt. Even patients with extremely difficult cases can come to our office and be at ease knowing that our technology will allow for us to perform the surgery with the most accurate placement possible.
Digital Scanner
Our digital scanner allows us to take impressions in our patient’s mouths using a highly accurate digital scanner and eliminating the need for goopy and uncomfortable impressions/molds.
This scanner captures images in the patient's mouth and is able to build a 3D digital mold of the patient’s mouth from it. This is much more comfortable for the patient because they do not have to take a goopy impression. In the past, we would often have to take multiple just to be sure our impression is good enough for the tight fit we are looking for.
This scanner also allows the dentist to know immediately if the impression is good or needs to be modified. With the old impression technique, the impression could be seemingly perfect but the crown wouldn’t fit because the impression had warped. With this digital scanner we can know in real time if the impression is accurate enough, if it isn’t, adjustments are quick and easy.
Crown Milling
This allows us to deliver crowns in a single day!
Without a mill, patients would book an appointment to have their tooth shaved down and an impression taken to send to the lab. While the crown is being made, the doctor would place a temporary crown that usually patients do not enjoy wearing because they can easily break or fall out. A week later the crown would be made by the lab and the patient would return to have the temporary removed and the permanent crown placed. This milling machine has streamlined that entire process so that the patient can walk into our clinic and walk out the same day with their final crown cemented in. This saves our patients time and aggravation. No more temporary crowns or multiple appointments.
Additionally, because the crown is being made in-house by our machine we have a very accurate and well-fitted crown made for you. We don’t have to rely on impressions that warp to create an ill-fitting crown. We don’t have to rely on scheduling and communicating with a lab. We can also make the colour match perfectly because the patient is right there in front of us. Crowns come out consistently better with this machine.
Laser Dentistry
This device allows us to do painless fillings without the need for needles and anesthesia. The all-tissue laser is great for kids or anyone with dental anxiety.
This laser is especially unique because it treats both tooth and gum related issues. It is revolutionary in that it replaces the dental drill. This means that patients with cavities can have their tooth decay removed by this laser allowing us to not only deliver a much more conservative and sterile treatment, but it also is painless which means we can do fillings without needles and anesthesia. The laser also has a lot of extra features. For example we use it to cut tongue ties and gum tissue with a much cleaner cut that heals faster and with less pain than a scalpel.
Digital X-Rays
Digital X-rays can detect early signs of tooth decay and disease while delivering less radiation to the patient than traditional film X-rays. Using a sensor that is inserted inside the mouth, the digital x-ray can record a high-quality, detailed image inside the mouth without having to wait for film processing. This also means the dentist can know immediately if the image captured all necessary areas and retake it quickly and easily if not.
Intra-Oral Camera
Intraoral cameras are an effective way to help patients better understand their dental health. The device looks similar to a pen and captures high-quality photos of the inside of the mouth. This painless, quick procedure does not use radiation and allows dentists and patient to see the inside of the patients’ mouth in real-time.