Discovery Dental Care - Discovery Dental Care Offer High Quality Dentistry

Dental care is the care of teeth and gums and maintaining of oral hygiene. Dentistry is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of disorders and conditions of the oral cavity, maxilla and the face. Medical practitioners of dentistry are referred to as dentists. Discovery Dental Care is one such dental service provider in Dundee, Scotland. It is a modern dental care centre providing full range of dental care facilities suited to the needs of different individuals. Children are also treated in the paediatric section under the National Health Service. It aims to offer good quality dentistry in a relaxed environment.

Among the treatments on offer at Discovery Dental Care are extractions, routine fillings, dentures and root treatment. Cosmetic treatments like crowns, white fillings, bridges, tooth whitening and veneers are also provided. The prevention treatments on offer include oral hygiene and diet advice and fissure sealants. It is registered with Tayside Dental Plan. Discovery Dental Care is currently offering an innovative treatment called Helozone therapy. It allows the patient to reverse major stages of tooth decay without using injections or drilling.

Among the dental conditions that are treated at Discovery are bleeding gums, abscesses, gum diseases, periodontitis, halitosis, plaque and tooth decay. Among the treatments on offer are bridgework, air abrasion, endodontics, missing teeth, preventive and restorative dentistry, prosthodontics, root canal treatment and surgical dentistry.

Discovery Dental Group in California maintains a high quality of patient and staff protection system to protect the patients and doctors from any kind of infection. The staff wears masks, gloves, protective clothing and eyewear as and when necessary. Most of the equipments used like air water syringe tips, saliva ejectors, prophy angles and high speed suction tips are disposable. Other instruments are cleaned in an ultrasonic scrubbing system and packaged in individual sterilisation pouches. After each use they are sterilised in a pressurised steam oven called autoclave. The handpieces are also cleaned, packaged, and sterilised in the autoclave.

Good hand hygiene is highly essential to control any kind of infection. Discovery uses the latest technology for hand sanitising. As approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), hands are washed with alcohol-based sanitisers. It has been found that the alcohol-based sanitizers are more effective than regular soap and water in killing bacteria and viruses.

In the paediatric section, all the above methods are followed even more stringently. The design of the treatment area at the paediatrics section is such that parents can observe and be near their children during treatment. Dental fears of many new patients get reduced through watching other patients in the open bay format of the treatment area.

Some simple precautions taken by us can help to avoid accidents and injuries to our teeth. Children should be kept away from taking too much sweet things, chewing ice cubes, hard candy or popcorn kernels as all these can lead to tooth decay. Maintaining proper oral hygiene like brushing teeth twice a day and rinsing the mouth after every food intake can go a long way in preventing damage to our teeth.

• John Palsson
• 06/05/2009, 8:59 AM
• 0 Comments