Why We Are Different
"Dr. Thaher and his team were all so lovely and very reassuring. He talked me through the entire process and the possible outcomes. The procedure went perfectly well and I am now more confident about visiting the dentist after my experience with Dr. Kenny Thaher. Highly recommended and appreciate the wonderful care!"
— NINDI G, SMILES PATIENT
Our Approach
Not Your Average Dental Clinic
Our crowns:
Our doctor uses a high-end NSK ELECTRIC high-speed handpiece with a digital display to show the adjustable RPM and gear ratio. The whole set costs 200-300% more than a traditional air-driven handpiece. The electric handpiece utilizes an alumina head and a thermally-insulated ceramic bearing to provide higher constant torque, less heat, and less vibration at the bur tip. This aids in reducing and eliminating post-operative sensitivity. This also helps the doctor to provide a precise cutting tool to work on the tooth. The best dentist is nothing without a good instrument. Other offices might use Chinese-made eBay Handpieces that costs $20.
Our clinic utilizes an iTero scanner to get an accurate scan of your mouth and tooth. Before getting clear aligners, oral appliances, or crowns, there needs to be impressions made of your teeth, mouth, and bite. These impressions are guides for creating a treatment that will precisely fit your needs. Without investments in iTero digital scanning technology, impressions of your mouth needed to be made with a physical mold. The process could be messy, time-consuming, and not very accurate. With iTero, digital impressions are made of your mouth. These digital scans are much more precise and accurate than traditional molds and impressions.
Rather than using goopy putty and trays to create impressions, the iTero scanner is a handheld wand. The wand typically does not trigger the gag reflex and does not create a globby mess to create a mold.
Creating molds of different areas of your mouth could be quite a time-consuming and stressful process. The iTero hand-held scanner is a compact wand that records the exact dimensions of your teeth and gums. The scanning process typically takes only three to five minutes, and it can be stopped and started as often as necessary. You will be able to breathe comfortably throughout the process.
The use of digital scans leads to much better fits for treatment. The scanning technology can allow for forecasts of what your mouth will look like after your treatment. If you are getting Invisalign, you and your doctor can discuss the goals and what each step along the process will look like. The digital scans gathered from the iTero scanner are communicated directly to the process that will craft your orthodontic treatment. Whatever orthodontic treatment you will be getting from a mouth guard to treat TMJ disorder to aligners for Invisalign will be expertly and precisely crafted to perfectly fit your mouth and teeth.
Our clinic utilizes a dental lab that has 5 axis milling for its zirconia crown. Some labs offshore the milling to China. Some of them only have a 2 or 3 axis milling. Anything less than 5-axis will reduce the depth of detail and eventually the fit of the crown.
Would you want a less than ideal fit of the crown that can lead to potential leakage, issues, and recurrent decay due to less than stellar treatment modalities?