Services

Dental Services in Santa Barbara, CA

At Smile Design, we offer a wide variety of general dentistry services, including digital X rays, white fillings, root canals, crowns, and dental bridges.

Digital X Rays

Digital radiography, or digital X -rays, is the latest technology. This technique uses an electronic sensor instead of X ray film to capture and store digital images on a computer. The images can be instantly viewed and enlarged, helping us detect problems easier. Digital X-rays reduce radiation by 90% compared to traditional dental X rays.

Periodontal Treatment

Periodontal disease attacks the gums and bone that support your teeth. Plaque is a sticky film composed of food debris, bacteria, and saliva. If it is not removed, it turns into calculus, or tartar, and destroys the gums and bone.

Gum treatment involves scaling and root planing, or deep cleaning. During this process, we remove tartar, plaque, and toxins from above and below the gumline and make rough spots on the root surfaces smooth while the area is numb. This procedure helps pockets to shrink and gum tissue to heal.

White Fillings

A white composite filling can be used to repair a tooth that is affected by decay, cracks, or fractures. When we give you a filling, the decayed or affected portion of the tooth is removed and filled with a specialized filling material.

Root Canal Therapy

Root canal therapy is needed when the nerve of a tooth is affected by deep decay, trauma, cracks, or infection. In order to save the tooth, we remove the pulp, which is the living tissue inside the tooth, as well as the nerves, bacteria, and any decay. Then we fill the resulting space with special medicated dental materials, which restore the tooth to its full function.

Dental Crowns

A crown, or cap, is a custom-made covering that encases the entire tooth to restore it to its original shape, size, and function. A crown protects and strengthens tooth structures that cannot be restored with fillings or other types of restorations. Let us restore your smile with one of these crowns.

Dental Bridges

When you have lost one or more teeth due to an accident, injury, decay, or gum disease, let us create a permanent bridge to restore your smile. A bridge fills the gap and prevents repositioning of the remaining teeth.

Occlusal Night Guards

When you or someone you know experiences severe tooth, jaw, or facial muscle pain, it may be from the effects of grinding or clenching teeth. Night guards are effective solutions, because they offset the wearing of the teeth.

Dentures & Partials

A denture is a removable dental appliance that replaces missing teeth and the surrounding tissue. Dentures are made to closely resemble your natural teeth and may even enhance your smile. There are two types of dentures—complete and partial. Complete dentures are used when all of the teeth are missing; partial dentures are used when some natural teeth remain.

Contact us in Santa Barbara, California, to schedule an appointment for one of our general dentistry procedures.
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