Henry Kim, DMD, PA
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Palm Beach dentist, Henry Kim, DMD, MMSc is a prosthodontist in the Palm Beach area of Florida. With rigorous training and experience, a prosthodontist has a special understanding of the dynamics between patient’s dental, oral health and patient’s overall health that only the bright smile can reflect.
Are you ready for a more comfortable visit to your dentist? Introducing the LavaTM Chairside Oral Scanner C.O.S. from 3M ESPE.
Impressive accuracy
With the Lava C.O.S., your dentist scans your teeth with a sophisticated optical wand that contains tiny camera lenses. These lenses capture detailed video images, ensuring extraordinarily accurate impressions. The result is a precise-fitting restoration.
How Lava C.O.S. makes dentistry more comfortable.
1. Prep and Dust—Your dentist preps your teeth and applies a light dusting of a tasteless powder.
2. Scan and Review—Your dentist then passes the wand over your teeth. Sophisticated optics gather precise digital images and a 3D impression appears immediately on the touch screen monitor.
3. Send—Your digital impression and a lab prescription are sent electronically to a dental lab, which creates a highly accurate, precise-fitting restoration.
4. Final appointment—Your smile is complete with the seating of the finished restoration.
Top Cosmetic Dentistry Procedures
Whether you’re interested in correcting flaws in your smile or want to manage tooth decay, today’s innovative cosmetic dentistry procedures can help you achieve that high-wattage smile within relatively short period of time. Here are some of today’s most popular cosmetic dentistry procedures listed below.
Porcelain Veneer
If you have crooked or chipped teeth, porcelain veneers can help correct your smile and conceal any flaws. Veneers are ceramic ‘covers’ that are strategically placed directly onto your teeth. This can help create an attractive, natural-looking smile.
Dental Bonding
One of the simplest and most cost-effective ways to fix broken or misaligned teeth is using composite resin as a bonding material. Several types of resins are designed to be the same color of your natural teeth. This pliable material is applied to your existing teeth and then hardened with a light beam. This helps create a ‘bond’ between the resin and tooth. The final restoration can be smoothed out, buffed and polished to resemble real teeth.
Dental Bridges
If you have gaps or large spaces between your teeth, a dental bridge helps to fill in the gap. The bridge itself is comprised of dental crowns and a ‘false’ tooth placed strategically in between. This helps create a natural appearance and is one of many ways to manage missing teeth or widely spaced teeth without extensive surgery.
Dental Inlays
If you have severely damaged teeth, you may need restorative dentistry that involves dental inlays or onlays. Dental inlays and onlays are made from porcelain and composite resin materials that are custom made by the dental technitians and are ‘bonded’ strategically on your teeth to provide an appearance and a function of a real set of teeth.
Dental Implants
Another form of restorative dentistry, dental implants, involve relatively simple surgery to replace missing teeth entirely. Dental implants involve securing titanium root forms into the jaw bone and creating natural-looking teeth attached to those titanium implants.
Teeth Whitening
Teeth whitening treatments such as Zoom! and BriteSmile are more powerful than at-home kits and can provide longer lasting results. These can be used in conjunction with other cosmetic dental work to enhance your smile and ensure your teeth look bright day in and day out.
Invisalign
f you have mildly or severely crowded teeth, the solution may be found not only in the cosmetic procedures as above, but also in orthodontic procedures as well. Instead of wearing a full metal brackets for years to correct the crowding problems, you can simply wear a clear plastic aligners by Invisalign for few months to create a beautiful smile.
Feel free to touch base with your Palm Beach Dentist if you would like more information about any of these procedures. Contact me here.
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