Why choose the Buffalo Dental Group?

MINIMALLY INVASIVE DENTISTRY

One of the “buzzwords” in the medical field has been the use of minimally invasive surgery. Now we have brought “minimally invasive dentistry” to dental care.

What is it and how is it different.

Traditionally, dental care has focused on silver fillings and crowns (caps). It has required the removal, or grinding down of a great deal of your tooth structure. Since 1993, the Buffalo Dental Group has eliminated the use of silver mercury fillings and the need for most crowns (caps) from both our dental practice and our patient’s mouths. Our focus is on removing only the decayed or damaged portion of a tooth. We feel that the more of your tooth that can be preserved, the stronger it will be, and the more options that will be preserved for the future.

Both Air abrasion and dental lasers greatly reduce the need for dreaded “drilling” and allow us to preserve much more of your natural tooth. In many situations, we can restore teeth to their original appearance without the need for an anesthetic         “shot’”

Once a crown always a crown

When a tooth is “ground down” for a crown, no other options exist for a more conservative replacement. That tooth is doomed to have a crown on it either for life, or until the tooth is lost. Crowns do fail, they are not forever. They likely will need to be replaced.  They are still subject to decay at the point where the crown meets the tooth, the gum line can pull back (recede) exposing an unsightly dark line, and the porcelain can fracture. On occasion the whole tooth can break off in the crown making the tooth unsaveable. This ideal restoration in the eyes of most dentists really seems to be less than ideal.