Areas Of Treatment focus
Our goals are simple
We strive to optimize your dental wellness by perfecting your SMILE ESTHETICS & CHEWING FUNCTION
1. Develop and coordinate complex patient-specific dental treatment with dental and medical colleagues.
2. Oral rehabilitation and smile enhancement using dental materials such as composite resin bonding, porcelain crowns and bridges, dental implants, and acrylic resin dentures.
3. Maintenance of dental wellness for patients with history of challenging dental issues.
Rehabilitation sequence with dr lin.
- Facilitate a conversation to understand your dental desire and the challenges you face
- Conduct a detailed comprehensive exam of your face, chewing muscles, jaw joints, the gum, and the teeth. We may recruit and collaborate with other dental colleagues for additional evaluation if necessary.
- Perform a smile and chewing function analysis to create a blue print for your rehabilitation
- Maintain a close communication and collaboration with other specialists to preserve and enhance the foundation underneath the visible part of your teeth
- Use state-of-the-art dental materials such as nano-composite resin, high impact acrylic resin, CAD/CAM titanium alloy, and CAD/CAM dental ceramic to restore and idealize your smile and chewing function.
- Commit to long-term maintenance of your dental wellness with customized individual home-care recommendations and professional re-care visits.
TMJ and Breathing Wellness
- Detailed evaluation pertaining to the sources of pain and discomfort in the entire craniofacial region; this includes headaches, the jaw joints, chewing muscles, limited jaw opening and chewing movement, abnormal clenching and grinding, and severe tooth wear.
- Screening of potential airway obstruction and sleep-related breathing disorders if indicated
- Lifestyle and dietary assessment
- Selective application of non-invasive low level laser therapy and splint therapy to restore jaw function, reduce pain, and minimize further injury to the head and neck and dental structures
- Collaboration with allied health professionals in sleep medicine, ENT/oral maxillofacial surgery, chiropractic, nutritional science, myofunctional therapy, and functional medicine.
Why see a board-certified prosthodontist?
- Completed 3 additional years of accredited post-graduate program in prosthetic dentistry beyond the 4 years of doctoral dental school education
- Specialize in treating and managing dental and facial problems that involve restoring and replacing teeth and gum.
- Highly trained in cosmetics, dental implants, crowns, bridges, dentures, temporomandibular disorders (TMJ/TMD), and airway management with oral appliances. While many other dentists can do some of these treatments, prosthodontists are the certified specialists dedicated to this type of care.
- Prosthodontists are considered the leaders of the dental treatment plan. They regularly lead teams of general dentists, specialists, and other health professionals to develop solutions for your dental needs.
- A board certified prosthodontist has successfully passed a rigorous examination conducted by the American Board of Prosthodontics. He or she is subjected to re-certification every eight years to insure that he or she is current in practices that affect the specialty.