Let Preferred Dental Take Care Of Your Teeth

Preferred Dental serves patients in Ellicott City and the surrounding area. It offers a variety of services that include general dentistry, emergency dentistry, and orthodontics.

What does general dentistry involve?
General dentistry includes such routine care as check-ups and dental cleanings. It also includes restorative dentistry in which the dentist uses materials like fillings or crowns to repair damaged or decayed teeth. Prosthodontics is a related field in which the dentist replaces missing or severely damaged teeth.

Periodontics is concerned with treating the structures surrounding the teeth such as the gums. A general dentist may also extract teeth or perform a root canal.

Why do you offer Botox injections?
Botox injections are used to treat a condition called bruxism in which the patient compulsively grinds their teeth. A patient with bruxism will eventually damage their teeth and experience such symptoms as jaw aches and sensitive teeth.

Botox works by paralyzing the muscles. Doctors began working with it in the 1950s to treat various disorders affecting the muscles. They didn’t discover Botox’s cosmetic applications until a few decades later.

When a patient clenches their jaw and grinds their teeth, they contract certain muscles in their jaw. Botox prevents those muscles from contracting.

A patient with bruxism may also need a night guard to protect their teeth while they sleep. The dentist may recommend both Botox and a night guard for some patients.

What does teeth whitening involve?
Preferred Dental uses either the Opalescence® or Venus White® systems to whiten a patient’s teeth. The whitening gel contains an active ingredient, either hydrogen peroxide or carbamide peroxide, that penetrates the enamel to reach the stains. The oxygen within the gel’s molecules breaks the bonds holding the stains to the tooth and thus whiten it.

The dentist may perform teeth whitening in the office as an hour-long procedure, or they may give the patient a kit to use at home.

To learn more about dentists in Ellicott City, contact Preferred Dental or visit the website https://www.topellicottcitydentists.com/.