Immediate Implants: Growing Back Your Teeth?
A deeply distraught patient shows up to their dental office with a broken tooth. The x-ray reveals a tooth broken off at below the gun line. During the examination the dentist confirms what is shown in the x-ray; the tooth cannot be saved. With a heavy heart the dentist turns to the patient and tells...
Nitrous Oxide Sedation
If you had a toothache 1000 or 2000 years ago, what did someone do to have the pain removed? Needless to say it was pretty brutal and most dental pain was tolerated as a way of life all the way until the seventieth century and the development of nitrous oxide gas. Before that, alcohol and opiates were...
Cape Dental Care Teams Up With Nierman Practice Management
Cape Dental Care has now teamed up with Nierman Practice Management to offer our patients the possibility of filing their medical insurance for specific dental procedures. Their software DentalWriter and CrossCode will allow us to both document our clinical findings and manage insurance claims within one software package. Watch Dr. Phillip Kraver discuss why they...
Scaling and Root Planning
Scaling and root planing removes the hardened bacteria from around your teeth that you cannot clean off during everyday oral hygiene helping to prevent gum disease.
Dental Insurance: Is Not Really Insurance: Insurance Tricks of the Trade
Insurance? What is dental insurance? It certainly isn’t insurance. It would be better described as an allowance. An allowance that is really your money paid back to you by very stingy parents. You would be much better off putting the money you spend on dental insurance into a savings account than giving it to an...
Painless Shots!
“Nothing personal doc, but I hate dentists.” “When I was a child, I had a dentist that hurt me so bad I never got over it.” “I’d rather have a baby than get dental work.” “I have a really high pain tolerance for everything but dental work.” “Can you just put me out, I really...
TekScan
This is a piece of dental equipment that I cannot believe every dentist is not required to own. It is a very accurate sensor that fits inside the mouth and is used to make a movie of how you put your teeth together. It was invented in the 1980′s for dentistry, but never caught on...
