Treatments

Dr. Okuyama and Santa Clarita Dental Care are here to help you maintain a healthy smile as part of your overall optimum health. Whether or not your have dental insurance, preventative maintenance and developing habits that provide lifetime benefits are the best course of action.

During a dental exam your dentist will use instruments, tests, X-rays and professional expertise to identify possible or existing illness or pathologies. The dentist’s key focus is on the oral cavity, head andneck. A customized strategy is established to stop or treat disease states of the mouth. When it comes to aesthetic dental care, Dr. Okuyama will work with you to identify your aesthetic and dental health objectives.

Dental Fillings:

Dental fillings are utilized to fix damage to the structure of a tooth or teeth. Structural harm can be created as an outcome of dental cavity, wear or trauma. After the extraction of a problematic tooth structure, the tooth is brought back with among several filling up materials: gold, amalgam, composite resin (white filling up product) or porcelain. Each filling material has its benefits as well as disadvantages. Your dental practitioner will work with you to establish which product is suitable for you.

Bonding:

Bonding is the term used to describe the process of making use of composite materials to “glue” fabrics to the surface of a tooth for restorative purposes. Damaged or fractured teeth are normally fixed with bonding. An enamel-like composite material is put on the surface of a tooth, formed into form, contoured as well as brightened, making the split or chip undetectable.

Orthodontics:

Misaligned teeth and also malocclusions could be corrected and also fixed with orthodontic braces and also retainers. Orthodontics is both an useful and aesthetic treatment, and also has actually ended up being a significantly preferred field of dental care.

Root Canals:

Root canal therapy eliminates infected pulp tissue within the root chamber of the tooth. The hollowed-out tooth is filled with an antibacterial dental filling, and also the tooth is “covered” with a crown for security. Endodontists concentrate on doing root canal treatment, though general dental practitioners likewise usually perform the restorative procedure. Some dental professionals make use of CAD/CAM innovation for the fabrication of dental crowns.

Dentures:

Dentures are utilized to replace missing teeth or damaged teeth that can not be otherwise fixed. General orthodontists, family members dental practitioners, prosthodontists, and aesthetic dental practitioners could perform the procedure. Accessibility of the most recent fabric, innovation and competence differs among dental experts.

Dental as well as Maxillofacial Procedures:

Dental and maxillofacial procedures vary from the much less intrusive therapy of abnormalities of the mouth, jaw as well as face– consisting of accompanying frameworks such as the teeth– to major dental surgeries. Dental implants, TMJ (temporomandibular joint) treatments, cosmetic surgery as well as cleft lip as well as taste buds procedures additionally drop under the dental as well as maxillofacial category.