Restorative Dentistry Services

Restore Your Smile With Grand Island Dental Center

Restorative dentistry procedures help patients reduce or eliminate issues of dental pain and discomfort. Using today’s advanced dental techniques, we will work with you to restore one tooth, several teeth or provide you with a full set of custom-fitted dentures. 

Crowns

A dental crown is tooth shaped and is placed over a tooth to help restore it's shape, size, strength, and to improve it's appearance. This will not only help strengthen your tooth, it will improve the overall appearance of your shape and alignment with your other teeth. When the crown is put in place, it will fully cover the visible portion of the tooth above the gum line.

Benefits of a Crown

• Cover a dental implant
• Cover a discolored or poorly shaped tooth
• Cover a tooth that has had root canal treatment
• Attach a bridge
• Replace a large filling when only minimal tooth structure remains
• Protect a weak tooth from fracturing
• Restore a fractured tooth
  

Root Canal Therapy

Root canal treatment — or endodontic therapy — is necessary when a cavity is neglected, allowing it to penetrate all the way to the pulp. Sometimes deep restorations or trauma to a tooth may cause the nerve to be damaged to the point it needs root canal therapy. Once this occurs the pulp becomes infected, and can even extend through the root tip and begin to eat away at the surrounding bone, which would be considered an abscess.

By the time the pulp is infected it must be treated, and cannot heal on its own. It can even weaken the entire immune system. Usually a core build-up and crown is recommended for restoring a tooth that has had root canal therapy. 

Extractions

Good oral hygiene should always be practiced, since the loss of a single tooth can have major impact upon your oral health and appearance. Although our Jenison dentists will use every measure to prevent tooth loss, it is still sometimes necessary to extract a tooth.

A tooth may need to be extracted in case of:

• Severe decay
  
• Advanced periodontal disease
  
• Infection or abscess
  
• Orthodontic correction
  
• Mal-positioned teeth
  
• Fractured teeth or roots
  
• Impacted teeth 
  

After careful examination and treatment, Dr. Shay McGowan or Dr. Mindy Rief may advise you to have a tooth extracted. Before a tooth is removed, your we will take an x-ray in order to understand the shape and position of the tooth and surrounding bone. Based on the degree of difficulty, we may refer you to a specialist called an oral surgeon. 

Dental Bridges

Dr. Shay McGowan and Dr. Mindy Rief may suggest that you need a bridge to restore and enhance damaged teeth or to replace missing teeth. Dental bridges literally bridge the gap caused by one or more missing teeth, where one or more artificial teeth are cemented into place using the teeth on either side for support. Bridges are very durable and can last a lifetime with extra care and by practicing good oral hygiene.

Dentures and Partial Dentures

Dental Implants

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