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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…
Read MorePainless 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…
Read MoreTekScan
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…
Read MoreJoint Vibration Analysis for TMJ and Myofacial Pain
As part of every dental exam the Cape Dental Doctors palpate the face and TMJ’s to see if there is any clicks or pops associated with opening and closing the mouth. Occasionally, a patient will have clicks and/or pops during the examination. Thankfully, most clicks and pops have been happening for years and are not…
Read MoreLaser Root Canals
Photon Induced Photo-acoustic Streaming or PIPS for short is the newest way to do root canals with a laser. Most dentist have never heard of it before because it is so new. We have been doing it in our office since September, 2010 with great success. It uses our erbium yttrium aluminum garnet laser. This…
Read MoreCone Beam CAT Scans
Now Cape Dental Care has the most advanced digital radiographs in dentistry today with the Vatech PaX-Duo3D Cone Beam CT. It looks and feels just like the old panorex that circled around your head to get a picture of your whole mouth, but it records a picture in 3D! What’s so special about 3D? Conventional radiographs are…
Read MoreiTero Digital Impressions
Cape Dental Care has found another way to make our patients feel more comfortable at the dental office. As part of our office going green, we have implemented an intra-oral digital impression machine called the iTero. The technology is similar to the laser scanner they use at the supermarket, but this is in 3D! After we…
Read MoreSpace Maintenance in the Pedodontic Patient: May Save You Money in the Long Run
After loosing a baby tooth prematurely, if you don’t use a space maintenance device then you may have to pay more in the long run for straight teeth.
Read MorePeriodontal Disease: Dangerous to Your Health
The World Health Organization reports that 85% of the USA population has some kind of periodontal disease. A small portion is due to genetics, but most is contributed to ineffective oral hygiene and a high sugar diet. Periodontal Disease: A group of diseases that affect the bone and tissues that support the teeth. What this really…
Read MoreHow the Aviary Came to Be
A dental office with an aviary? You may be thinking, “How different”, but most of our patients say, “How relaxing.” The reason why we have an aviary at our office is a long story that I have frequently told to my patients when they ask me who thought of putting an aviary here in the…
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