With the advancements in the dental industry, many new procedures are invented to treat any kind of dental problems. But the costs involved in these treatments are again very high. To provide all these dental treatments and other facilities at affordable costs Dental Care Associates are formed. Dental Care Associates ensure best quality treatments at affordable rates.

What is a Dental Care Associate?

Dental Care Associate is a network of well experienced and licensed dentists who provide all the dental services in a particular locality. They also make sure that all these facilities are provided to you within your budget.

What kind of services do these Dental Care Associates offer?

With the availability of so many Dental Care Associates, the services offered by them generally differ. The common services offered by these Dental Care Associates are:

Preventive Care Services: These services help people in preventing their teeth and gums from different dental diseases. These include-

Oral Examinations: This is the primary and most important step. Your teeth are examined by several techniques like visual examination, periodontal probing (examining the gum tissue), x-rays, etc. After the examination, they recommend you to a suitable treatment if any dental disorder is found.

Prophylaxis (cleaning): In spite of regular brushings, your teeth must be cleaned by a good dentist to prevent dental diseases. These cleaning services are generally offered by all the Dental Care Associates.

Fluoride treatments and sealants: The crevices of the back teeth are sealed using sealants to prevent decaying. This is to be done as cleaning the deep crevices of the back teeth is difficult and they may start decaying. Fluoride helps in the hardening of the tooth enamel apart from preventing certain oral diseases like dental caries and cavities. So fluoride treatments are also one of the preventive measures.

Apart from the above, other preventive services include Oral cancer screenings, Blood pressure screenings, evaluations of jaw joint problems and educating the patients about the importance of dental care.

Restorative Dentistry Services: These services are performed to restore the decayed, cracked, broken or missing teeth. These include-
Dentures: These are artificial removable set of teeth which resemble the natural teeth.

Dental Bridges: A dental bridge is a group of inter connected crowns designed by the dentist to replace the patient’s damaged set of teeth.

Dental implants: A replacement tooth called dental implant is placed in place of the missing tooth.

Dental Crowns: Deformed teeth are capped with the help of these dental crowns so as to give a perfect shape and size to them. This procedure helps in restoring broken teeth. 

Dental Bonding: In this procedure, a tooth-colored resin is used to bond the chipped or broken teeth. It is also used to fill the gaps between the teeth.

Cosmetic Dentistry Services: Cosmetic dental services help you in getting rid of the teeth deformities and gift you with a beautiful smile. These services include

Veneers: The other way of treating discolored, chipped, broken or gapped teeth is by using veneers. These are artificially designed shells made up of porcelain or resin (a durable plastic material) which cover the front portion of the teeth.

Dental Bleaching: Discolored teeth are bleached using these procedures.

Dental bonds, Dental implants and dental crowns and bridges are also performed as a part of cosmetic dentistry.

Endodontic Therapy: This therapy involves filling the damaged inner core of the teeth which includes the removal and restoration of that particular tooth.

Periodontal Therapy: This therapy is specially performed to treat periodontal diseases.

Oral Surgery: Oral surgeries include procedures like wisdom tooth removal, biopsies, and implant placement.

Sleep Dentistry: Many people develop a phobia towards the dental treatments due to varied reasons. Well trained dentists will treat the phobic patients in a relaxed and comfortable way and help them in overcoming this fear.

And many other services like Pediatric dentistry and procedures to treat headaches are also offered at most of the Dental Care Associates.