At Bondi Family Dental Surgery we strive to improve the quality of life of our patients through healthy smiles. At the center of patient centered care and individually tailored treatment planning is our comprehensive new patient check up and consultation. This ensures that whether you are looking to improve your smile or improve ability to eat by straightening your teeth with clear aligner therapy / Invisalign, whitening your teeth, or replace missing teeth with implants, a big picture is considered and comprehensive plan made.
Bondi Family Dental Surgery encourages regular 6 monthly check ups and cleans, for us to see if there have been any changes in your oral health, making sure your dentition stays healthily maintained. It is also a great opportunity for you to ask the dentist anything and for you to express any concerns that have been bothering you, and we will do our best for you to be rest assured.
Your check up appointment includes:
| Initial check up (first visit): | A usual 6 monthly check up will include: |
| Consultation X-rays Intra-oral photos Scale & clean Polish Topical Fluoride application Oral Hygiene Instructions | Consultation Intra-oral photos Scale & clean Topical Fluoride Application Polish Oral Hygiene Instructions X-rays (routinely every 2 years) |
Prevention and Restorative dentistry
In 21st Century today, our diets are easily saturated with sugary food and acidic drinks. Tooth structure is easily eroded through sugars and acidic drinks, and with a busy lifestyle, it is easy to neglect oral hygiene on a tiresome evening and a rushed morning. However, if this lifestyle is ongoing, your teeth will eventually decay, and in the long run, will require further more complex, and high risk dental treatments, such as Root Canal Therapy and Crowns/Bridges, may also be at risk of pain.
To prevent this from happening, when you come back in to Bondi Family Dental Surgery for your 6 monthly check up, and if we do discover some decay, or some easy tight spots for food and bacteria to get stuck in, we will encourage further treatment such as:
- Fissure Sealants
- Much like yourself, each and every one of your teeth have their own characteristics, called pits and fissures. Some may have deeper fissures than others, where food and bacteria can easily get comfortable in, and the spaces are just too tight for our tooth brush to get into. This is where Fissure Sealants come in, the name says it all. This is where we will seal off those deep fissures, to prevent bacteria from settling there, letting off waste products that will eventually decay the tooth. Instead Fissure Sealants will provide a smoother surface, where it is easy for water to rinse away and easy to brush.
- Restorations
- Restorations (or a filling) is the treatment required when there is active decay. The size of decay can vary on how early it is discovered. Where there is decay, there is bacteria eating away the surface of your tooth. Our job as your dentist, is to clean that bacteria and infected tooth structure out, and rebuild your tooth for its functional use in eating.
- Now depending on how large and close to the nerves the cavity is, there may be local anaesthesia involved, to numb you up and reduce the experience of pain and sensitivity during the procedure.
- Restorations are also futile, unless there is cooperation of the patient with diligent daily oral hygiene at home, to ensure that there is no recurrent decay.
If you have any further questions regarding the procedure and/or pricing please give us a call on (02) 8084 6838 or email us on info@bondifamilydentalsurgery.com.au
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