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Protect Your Childs Permanent Teeth with Dental Sealants!

admin — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:41:52 +0000

Run your tongue across the chewing surface of your molars. Can you feel all the bumps and grooves called “pits and fissures”? Well, these areas just so happen to be perfect for trapping food and plaque, which can cause tooth decay. Although brushing twice a day and flossing regularly helps protect your teeth from cavities, oftentimes toothbrush bristles can’t quite reach into these pits and fissures leaving them covered in plaque. This is where dental sealants can help.

Dental sealants fill in pits and fissures, eliminating areas that are unreachable by brushing. These sealants are applied in liquid form to effectively fill crevices, which then quickly hardens to protect your teeth.

Eliminate plaque collecting pits and fissures. Ask us about sealants to prevent tooth decay!

Winter Newsletter

admin — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:37:43 +0000

Click below to view our 2010 Winter Newsletter which we have created to help you to improve your dental health and awareness.

How Do You Feel About Your Teeth?

admin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:13:54 +0000

Unless you’re born with splendid dental genes, you may have some feeling of disaffection with your smile. That’s why taking control of your smile’s appearance can be such and empowering moment. The challenge is finding a knowledgeable professional that can change an unsatisfactory smile into a winning one. Dr. Pollack has been designing beautiful smiles for more than thirty years. His approach to dentistry is a mixture of complete dedication and state of the art techniques. His style, including step by step explanations and intra-oral camera photos, seem more like collaboration than a traditional doctor/patient relationship. In particular, Dr. Pollack offers patients a “Smile Analysis” in which he evaluates your smile’s strengths and suggests ways to enhance it. Then, a new look and procedures to achieve it are proposed. The “Smile Makeover” is considered complete only when the patient is entirely satisfied.

Does your cosmetic dentistry practice in New Jersey offer consultations?

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:26:59 +0000

Yes. At Beautiful Smiles by Dr. Harold A. Pollack, we offer a no-obligation consultation to patients. To schedule a consultation or to learn more about our cosmetic dentistry procedures, contact our New Jersey dentist today.

What is smile design?

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:26:45 +0000

Once your smile has been evaluated, we begin the process of designing your new look, choosing the cosmetic dentistry procedures and materials best suited to achieve the results you want.

What is smile analysis?

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:26:29 +0000

This is the process of evaluating your smile – what’s right with it, what’s wrong with it, and how it can be enhanced. We make restorative and cosmetic dentistry procedure recommendations, and patients are also encouraged to browse through books with samples of shapes and sizes of teeth.

I am missing teeth, what are my treatment options?

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:26:10 +0000

Missing teeth can be repaired through dental implants, bridges, and dentures. Each restorative dentistry procedure is different. Patients should discuss the optimal solution for their situation with Dr. Harold Pollack.

I don’t want braces. Is there a cosmetic dentistry procedure at your New Jersey practice that can enhance my smile?

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:25:44 +0000

If you absolutely don’t want braces, porcelain veneers and other cosmetic dentistry procedures at our Millburn, New Jersey-based practice, can achieve a terrific look, giving teeth a straighter appearance and a better size, shape, and color. Porcelain veneers are bonded to the front of your teeth in no time at all, and they can dramatically improve the look of your smile in just a few short visits.

Inlays, onlays, and crowns … where can I learn more?

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:25:26 +0000

Porcelain crowns and inlays and onlays are some of the techniques we offer to help restore unsightly teeth and improve your smile. For example, composite or porcelain inlays are tooth-colored materials used to fill cavities and protect the tooth against fractures. Large areas of decay or damage can be filled and covered with an onlay made of precious metal composites or porcelain. Porcelain crowns act like a cap to cover the entire tooth. For more information on these and other procedures, please review the patient education on the cosmetic dentistry, restorative dentistry, and general/preventative dentistry pages of this website.

Is it bad if my gums bleed after I brush my teeth?

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:25:11 +0000

If your gums continually bleed after you brush, they are inflamed and maybe even infected. This can lead to bone loss and tooth loss over time, and the condition should be evaluated immediately. The dental hygienists at our cosmetic dentistry practice in Millburn, New Jersey are trained in periodontal disease treatment.