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-UNDER GENERAL DENTISTRY tab:
Dental cleaning and Consultation
Change “The American Dental Association recommends visiting you Lee’s summit dentist regularly to…..”The American Dental Association recommends visiting your dentist every 6 months.
–Often dentists are all capable of identifying……
change to:
On your cleaning visits, Dr. Laudie and his staff can see if there are other potential problems that patients…….
-Under what should I expect at my cleaning…..remove you’ll also consult with your Lee’s summit dentist…
You through “Lee’s summit dentist in way too often and it’s very generic”.. It reads poorly.
–Fluoride and Decay Prevention
Add to paragraph on fluoride:
How does fluoride work? Teeth are made from calicium and phosphate which are both positively charged. Acid is negatively charged. They neutrilize when they combine. When acid from bacteria is released on the surface of your tooth, the acid is often neutralized from the calicium and phosphate from the tooth. When this happens the tooth enamel looses minerals from the tooth and a cavity is starting. Flouride helps the tooth because it is absorbed into the surface of the tooth and repels acid attack from bacteria. In fact it is so helpful that it takes a stronger acid to cause mineral loss on a tooth.
Patient with braces or high cavity rates should consider using a prescription toothpastes that has elevated levels of Flouride to make the teeth much more resistant to decay. This prescription toothpaste can be purchased at our office or a prescription can be given.
Any patient could benefit from not rinsing with water after brushing. All that is needed is to spit out the toothpaste in the mouth. The little that is left in the mouth can go a long way into helping prevent future cavities.
A lot of things from the grocery store are bad for our teeth. For instance, almost every beverage that comes bottled from the store, INCLUDING bottled water, has a ph low enough to dissolve enamel. Enamel dissolves at a pH of 5.5 and even bottled water is generally around 5.4 ph (more acidic). What should you drink? Filtered water from the tap, tap water, and milk have a more basic pH and do not damage teeth.
You should look at the sugar content of other beverages as well. For example, fruit juice, despite being 100% natural has way too much sugar. You might ask, buts is natural? Using apple juice as an example, when you eat an apple you don’t get all the sugar in your mouth at once. A little is released but most gets released later. A glass of apple juice on the other hand doesn’t have the fiber locking in the sugar. All the sugar is already in the juice which gets to bathe the teeth and bacteria that use it and it like eating 8 apples at once. Since we don’t eat 8 apples all at once, it’s a bit too much sugar for us to drink it all at once in a glass. From a teeth standpoint, it’s best to eat and apple than to drink it in the juice form.
-Frequently asked questions:
Do I need Flouride treatments?
Change to: “you may need Flouride (remove less summit). Add: Lee’s Summit gets water from Kansas City and Independence. The amount of fluoride as those waters are combined is about 0.6 ppm fl-. This is lower than the reccomended amount of 1.0 ppm fl-.
-Is there anything I can do to supplement my Flouride treatments?
change to “The ADA recommends supplementing your Lee’s Summit fluoridated drinking water with fluoridated toothpaste.
-Basic Bites
Add picture of Basic Bites from their website
Basic Bites are chocolate flavored chews that contain calcium and phosphate. They help the pH in the mouth become more alkaline which prevents cavity causing bacteria to grow as well. They also help re-mineralized the enamel by providing needed calcium and phosphate. Visits www.basicbites.com for more information.
-Xylitol
Xylitol is a sweetener that does not contribute to decay on enamel. It is a natural sugar found in birch trees. Mints or candies that use only xylitol as the sweetener can be helpful at preventing and controlling cavities. Talk to us about when to incorporate xylitol into your diet and how much should be used.
–Under sealants
Did you know…..
Sealants cover 90 percent of the tooth…..this is false…..just remove that line….
-Under Composite fillings
….have made it possible for Auburn dentists…… Remove that part.
Also change “most dentist use composite restoration to treat the teeth closest to the front of the mouth…..to Dr. Jacob Laudie uses composite fillings anywhere in the mouth. They are strong enough to place on any tooth.
-Remove frequently asked questions…..am I a candidate for tooth colored fillings… That’s too basic
–Change composite fillings to White Fillings/ Composite
-Then add White Fillings/ Glass Ionomer (As another header on this page)
Very recent advances are allowing a long time dental material to be used as a filling material almost in any situation. Why is this material potentially better? Glass Ionomer filling are the most natural fillings placed in the mouth. They bond naturally to the tooth through calcium bonds in the tooth and calcium in the filling material. No resins or ‘glue’ is needed for the bonding. The filling material helps restore a damaged tooth and can also help prevent future decay on that tooth by releasing minerals to the nearby tooth structure to remineralize it and protect from acid attack. While your tooth will start to dissolve at a pH of 5.5, this filling material will dissolve at a pH of 5.6 (a slightly less acidic environment) thus releasing needed minerals for the tooth to help protect it in acid environments. The most recent advances in this material have increased its internal strength so it can be used throughout that mouth in a wide variety of situations.
-Root Canals
Many Patients associate root canals with pain and discomfort section
Change to:
“But local anesthetic and advancements in modern dentistry have made root canals painless procedures that are often no less comfortable than getting a standard filling”.
–Frequently asked questions: Remove “Am I a candidate for a Lee’s summit root canal….section”
-Under what should I expect during my root canal……
Change sentence to this….
” once your tooth root is numb, the diseased portion of your tooth pulp will be cleaned and sterilized. Often an anti microbial paste will be placed in the canals of the tooth for a number of weeks to allow thorough sterilization. After the tooth has healed the canals will be sealed.
-Oral Cancer screening:
Remove viziLite…..I don’t have one. Remove all info on this and place this:
Each time you come into our Lee’s Summit office for a periodic cleaning and exam or on your first visit Dr. Laudie or his staff will evaluate you for oral cancer. This is done by checking the head and neck area for swollen lymph nodes or sore that don’t heal in the mouth. The tongue is the most common place in the mouth to find cancer in the mouth. This can show up as a swollen area on the side of the tongue or a sore on the tongue that does not heal after 10-14 days.
While checking for head and neck cancer, Dr. Laudie and his staff will check the jaw function and the thyroid glad as well.
-Frequently asked questions
Remove all that are there and add:
“How common is oral cancer?” and add some material there.
-“How serious is oral cancer?”
Add info about how early detection is vital for a good prognosis
-Restore your smile tab
Endo therapy
That tab takes you to a periodontal disease tab….please fix adn remove any mention of a periodontist on the perio gum disease page…..I’m a general dentist. Remove tray delivery as well. Include on the gum disease page Scaling and root planing, localized antibiotics, prescription mouth rinse, and Waterpik with a logo and link to waterpik.com
-Crown and bridge
Remove the question “is a crown or bridge right for me?”
-Under did you know…..kinda weird, but add that recent advances in dental materials allows us to use even stronger materials for crowns like zirconia or stronger porcelains like Emax.
-Implants
Under frequently asked questions
Remove “are dental implants right for me”
-Under prosthodontics treatment
Change all reference to a prosthodontics the to Dr. Jacob Laudie or ‘the dentist’
-Under Invisalign
Add link to Invisalign website
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