How Digital Dentistry Improves the Patient Experience

Tools like dental picks, suction, and drills have long been standard parts of the treatment process at a dental office, depending on your needs. However, some of these tools can make patients feel anxious about care. Modern digital dentistry has provided dentists with new and effective ways to preserve patient comfort and improve treatment results. At West Houston Dental, we’re proud to incorporate many of these cutting-edge technologies into our processes for care, so patents can access worry-free dentistry.

With digital dental technology, we are able to offer:

Prosthetics that Fit Just Right – Prosthetics, such as bridges, crowns, and veneers that are created by lab technicians based off of impression molds can be hit-or-miss. The quality of the mold, a patient’s comfort with having impressions taken, and the skill of the technician in interpreting impressions all play a hand in the final quality of restorative dental prosthetics. With digital work flows and digital impressions, however, patient information is captured with improved precision and greatly reduces margin of error. Our dental lab technicians work off of digital workflows, so our patients can enjoy restorations that are made to fit more comfortably and provide improved aesthetics.

Precise Surgical Care – Certain complex procedures, like dental implant placement, require positioning prosthetics in just the right spot, to ensure lasting results. Our 3D guided implant surgery treatments allow Dr. Nguyen to locate the best position and angle for placing your implant, helping to ensure that your implants integrate successfully with surrounding bone. While many dentists use educated guesses in placing implants, our implant surgical processes are precise and guided by detailed images of oral structures.

Better Treatment Outcomes – When it comes to treating infected teeth with root canal therapy, cleaning out all root systems and ensuring that there is no infected dentin left behind is an important component in successful care. When providing root canal therapy for patients with severely damaged teeth, our advanced endodontic tools allow us to thoroughly target inner systems of teeth. Patients enjoy faster, more efficient and gentle care with these treatment aids.

Comfortable Procedures – Laser dentistry offers an improved way to treat soft tissue while maximizing patient comfort and promoting faster healing times. For procedures that once required incisions and stiches, laser dentistry allows cosmetic gum re-contouring and frenectomies to be completed with the pass of a laser beam, which treats and seals simultaneously. Patients find their laser soft tissue procedures to be pain-free and efficient.

Questions about Digital Dentistry?

We can make digital dental tools part of your next treatment. For more information about comfortable care with advanced treatment aids, contact our Houston dental office.