General Dentistry

Fayette Dental Care offers a full array of dental services to help you maintain healthy teeth. You can read more on this page about specific services.

Bonding:

A smile can be dulled by stained, chipped, cracked or misaligned teeth, but bonding can quickly and painlessly restore your smile’s natural beauty. During the procedure, a thin coating of plastic or resin is painted over the damaged teeth. The new coating strengthens your teeth and is virtually indistinguishable from natural color.

Crowns and bridges:

Crowns- Also called caps, crowns are natural-looking covers that fit snugly over teeth to conceal cracked, badly discolored, injured, or chipped teeth. Crowns minimize physical discomfort and provide support to damaged teeth. Ultimately, crowns can improve the overall appearance of your smile while making your teeth more resistant to injury.

Bridges:

Sometimes a little extra work is needed to create your desired smile. If you are missing teeth, having trouble speaking or chewing, or notice strain when biting, bridges may be the ideal option to help make your mouth healthy and beautiful again. Sometimes referred to as fixed partial dentures, bridges literally bridge gaps between teeth by filling them with strong, natural-looking artificial teeth. Bridges are relatively permanent and can only be removed by a dentist, but are completely comfortable and proven to make teeth strong. To find out if bridges are the right option for you, please contact us today.

Sealants:

A dental sealant (also called a pit and fissure sealant) is a plastic, professionally-applied material that is put on the chewing surfaces of back teeth to prevent cavities. Sealants provide a physical barrier so that cavity-causing bacteria cannot invade the pits and fissures on the chewing surfaces of teeth.

Root canal therapy:

In the situation that a tooth is considered so threatened (because of decay, cracking, etc.) that future infection is considered likely or inevitable, a pulpectomy, removal of the pulp tissue, is advisable to prevent it. Usually, some inflammation and/or infection is already present within or below the tooth. To cure the infection and save the tooth, Dr. Attia drills into the pulp chamber and removes the infected pulp by scraping it out of the root canals. Once this is done, the dentist fills the cavity with an inert material and seals up the opening.

Extractions:

Extractions are performed for a wide variety of reasons. Tooth decay that has destroyed enough tooth structure to prevent restoration is the most frequent indication for extraction of teeth. Extractions of impacted or problematic wisdom teeth are routinely performed, as are extractions of some permanent teeth to make space for orthodontic treatment.

Scaling and root planning:

Scaling is procedure that meticulously removes contaminant toxins, micro-organisms, plaque, tartar, cement, and dentin that is rough and/or permeated by calculus from around, below and under the gum line down to the bottom of the pocket. This is done to remove biofilm, calculus, and toxin down to the bottom of each periodontal pocket in order to obtain a healing response.

In our office we use a topical anesthetic to make this procedure comfortable. Root planning involves smoothing the root surfaces of your teeth with thin curettes so gum tissue can more firmly re-attach to roots that are clean and smooth to prevent tooth loss and sensitivity problems. The procedure makes it more difficult for plaque to accumulate along the root surfaces.