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Shoker Dental Inc.
Appointments: (510) 713-7333
Devinder Shoker D.D.S.
Shoker Dental Inc.
3456 Mowry Ave
Fremont, CA 94538
For comfortable dental hygiene treatment in the Milpitas, California area, Dr. Devinder Shoker is known for having a gentle touch. The friendly team at Shoker Dental Inc. provides teeth cleaning for a whiter smile.
Maintaining good dental hygiene is the foundation for healthy teeth and gums. We're committed to helping you have a lifetime of oral health.
Milpitas area periodontics dentist, Dr. Shoker offers extensive experience. Gingivitis and bleeding gums can be risk factors for more serious health problems if not treated promptly.
Our friendly and highly-trained team will assess your needs and design an individual treatment plan. We're here to help you maintain healthy gums and teeth for life.
Devinder Shoker, D.D.S., provides general dentistry for people of all ages. Dental health is important during your entire life. When your teeth are healthy, it follows that you will be healthier, and your quality of life increases. No matter what your age, Shoker Dental Inc. is here to serve your dental needs in the Milpitas, California area.
If you need gum disease treatment, Milpitas area gum disease dentist, Dr. Shoker offers extensive experience. Unhealthy gums can be a risk factor for more serious health problems if not treated promptly.
Our professional team will assess your situation and create a personalized treatment plan. We're committed to your life-long healthy gums and teeth.
Benke Dental Care
Appointments: (651) 450-1602
Steven Benke D.D.S.
Benke Dental Care
5972 Cahill Avenue, Suite 109
Inver Grove Heights, MN 55076
For your comfort and convenience, Steven Benke, D.D.S., may suggest you relax with nitrous oxide (laughing gas) during certain treatments. Offering gum disease at his practice in the Inver Grove Heights, MN area, Dr. Benke offers a range of options to help you feel comfortable at the dentist.
The friendly, caring staff of Benke Dental Care in the Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota area strive to make you feel comfortable and well-cared for at your dentist appointment. Steven Benke, D.D.S. is committed to serving you and your family's dental needs, year after year. Come and see what we have to offer in a professional setting where top-notch customer service still matters.
One of the first things people notice is your smile. All it takes is a single appointment or two with Inver Grove Heights area dentist Steven Benke, D.D.S., and you, too, can have the winning, healthy-looking smile you've always wanted. The beautiful cosmetic results you'll get from Benke Dental Care can be immediate and dramatic!
Friendly, caring family dentistry in the Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota area is available at Benke Dental Care. Our team strives to make you and your family feel comfortable during your appointment. Steven Benke, D.D.S. wants to help you and your family maintain your oral health now and for years to come. You'll love visiting our comfortable setting where personalized customer service still matters.
We accept most insurance carriers. Please check with us prior to your appointment, but it's safe to say we likely accept the type of insurance you carry.
Inver Grove Heights area dentist Dr. Steven Benke and his knowledgeable staff can help answer any of your insurance questions. At Benke Dental Care we aim to maximize your insurance benefits and make any remaining balance easily affordable.
Flushing Dental Care
Appointments: (810) 733-2700
David Shorez D.D.S.
Flushing Dental Care
6221 W. Pierson Rd.
Flushing, MI 48433
The friendly, caring staff of Flushing Dental Care in the Flushing, Michigan area strive to make you feel comfortable and well-cared for at your dentist appointment. David Shorez, D.D.S. is committed to serving you and your family's dental needs, year after year. Come and see what we have to offer in a professional setting where top-notch customer service still matters.
Dr. David Shorez is a popular Flushing area children's dentist known for his easy going and friendly approach. Our caring team is dedicated to your child's dental health.
We're happy to answer all of your questions. We want you and your children to feel comfortable, whether we're treating your toddler's baby teeth or your teenager's permanent teeth.
You're unique, and you deserve quality, individualized care. Dr. David Shorez believes your dental experience should blend the best of the personal and the professional. At Flushing Dental Care in the Flushing, Michigan area, we take the time to get to know you and understand your dental needs. Dr. Shorez and his staff are dedicated to providing you with top-quality dental care designed exclusively for you.
If you're looking for a more pleasing, silver-free smile, you'll want Flushing area dentist Dr. David Shorez to replace your amalgam fillings with natural-looking composite fillings. Tooth-colored fillings are thought to be safer and more attractive than older silver amalgam fillings. Dr. Shorez will precisely match your new tooth-colored composite fillings with the natural color of your teeth, providing you with virtually invisible fillings.
Flushing Dental Care practices the highest infection control standards to protect our patients and ourselves. In the Flushing, MI area, Dr. David Shorez and his staff strictly observe all Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) guidelines. All instruments are cleaned, disinfected and routinely sterilized as recommended by the American Dental Association and the Centers for Disease Control. Whenever possible, disposable, single-use items are used to ensure your safety.
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Diabetes and Periodontal Disease
It's important for your dentist to know if you have diabetes, and how you're controlling it. Good control of your diabetes affects your oral health as well as your overall health.
Diabetics tend to be less resistant to infection than non-diabetics, have more fragile bones, and take longer to heal after an operation.
An oral infection can make diabetes worse, which makes the infection worse, which makes the diabetes worse - and so on into a major medical problem.
Diabetics develop severe gum disease more often, too, especially over the age of 40. Once gum inflammation - gingivitis - sets in, it can erupt into periodontal disease or even infection in the jaw. In undiagnosed or uncontrolled diabetics, this could mean tooth loss.
How to hang on to your teeth?
Practice preventive dentistry and follow the medication, diet, and meal schedules recommended by your physician. This, with balanced rest and exercise, will bolster your resistance to disease, including oral infections and cavities.
If you're taking insulin injections, you may want to schedule appointments around your medication times. The stress of an examination or procedure can change the way your body uses insulin. Your dentist will want to be prepared to help you in case you have a reaction. And let him or her know if you are taking any other medications. Drug interactions can be serious.
You may want to have your gums examined (and have a dental cleaning) by a dental hygienist more often than twice a year - just to make sure nothing suspicious gets started.
And on the home front, good dental hygiene - controlling plaque, the invisible bacterial film that undermines teeth - is crucial. Home care rules to live by: brush at least twice a day and floss at least once a day. The more, the better.
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Periodontal Regeneration Dentistry Treatment
Periodontal regeneration means restoring the bone and supporting tissues adjacent to teeth with advanced bone loss. Frequently, periodontal regeneration treatment will prolong the use of the involved teeth. A periodontist or dentist will diagnose the problem by taking a careful medical and dental history.
The tissues adjacent to the teeth will be gently probed with a calibrated, ruler-like instrument. These measurements, together with a dental X-ray, will help determine the appropriate treatment for the involved teeth.
There are many regenerative techniques and methods. Bone purchased from bone banks has been used effectively as a regenerative material for over 30 years. This bone is procured from healthy individuals, is carefully processed, and has been proven safe. Treatment consists of carefully moving the gum tissue away from the involved teeth and removing tarter (calculus) deposits from the root surfaces.
The bony defect is gently filled with the bone bank material (allogenic bone) or other synthetic materials. The gums are then replaced around the neck of the teeth with small sutures. The sutures are removed within five to seven days, and gentle tooth brushing can resume.
Synthetic bone substitutes have been developed to simulate natural bone. These materials are safe, and may help support the involved teeth. Such substitutes are implanted through periodontal surgery. Recently, cow bone, which is carefully prepared, sterilized, and safe, has been used to repair defects next to teeth. This bone is porous, allowing bone from the patient to grow into the pores. New technologies have developed porcine (pig) proteins, which, when painted onto teeth, allow for natural regeneration of tooth cementum and bone. These materials have demonstrated early promising clinical results.
The use of barrier membranes to protect and isolate bony defects has been used for over 15 years. These are made from synthetic, non-dissolvable materials, dissolvable materials, or bovine collagen (cow collagen). Membranes are frequently used either with synthetic graft materials or with bone purchased from bone banks. Recently, proteins have been joined to synthetic bone.
This material enhances cell attachment to root surfaces and may provide an effective method for periodontal regeneration. In the future, proteins that stimulate bone formation and enhance formation of new root cementum will make periodontal regeneration a simple, effective method to save teeth with advanced disease.
The materials discussed above have been published in dental journals, are safe, and generally result in tooth retention with bone fill of the treated bony defects. Articles relating to periodontal regeneration can be researched from PubMed using the following key words: "periodontal," "regeneration," "allogenic bone," "synthetic bone grafting," and "barrier membranes."
By William Becker, DDS
