Advanced Dental Technology
Precision Dentistry
When you seek care at our office, you can be assured that Dr. Varadi and his staff utilize the latest in technology, enhancing the quality and fit of your dental care.
Our practice uses telescopic loupes to enhance the precision of patient care.
Dentistry is micro-surgery. Using these mini-microscopes with attached headlamps, the same tool used by surgeons, enables us to create dental restorations with incredibly precise fit and finish. You just can’t maintain that level of care with the naked eye.
In addition to allowing for precise, close-up work, the microscope directs a beam of light directly on the teeth, minimizing glare for you.
We also use air-driven “hand-pieces” (the dental term for “drills”) which are extremely precise and, for your safety, lube free, so there’s no lubricating oil sprayed while we work. This allows us to create precise restorations (crowns, veneers or fillings) in the safest environment possible.
Advanced Dental Technology
Our office features the best in precision dental technology, allowing us to provide top-quality care to all our patients.
Digital Imagery
Dr. Varadi chooses carefully which radiographs are taken and when they are done. There are many guidelines that we follow to ensure that we understand what is going on below your gums. Radiographs allow us to see everything we cannot see with our own eyes. These images enable us to detect cavities in between your teeth, determine bone level, and analyze the health of your bone. We can also examine the roots and nerves of teeth, diagnose lesions such as cysts or tumors, as well as assess damage when trauma occurs.
Dental radiographs are invaluable aids in diagnosing, treating, and maintaining dental health. Dr. Varadi utilizes digital imaging technologies within the office. Exposure time for dental radiographs is extremely minimal; with digital imaging, exposure time is about 50 percent less when compared to traditional radiographs. Digital imaging can also help us retrieve valuable diagnostic information, such as finding cavities that are not detectable from the surface of the tooth.
Digital imaging allows us to store patient images, and enables us to quickly and easily transfer them to specialists or insurance companies.
What is the importance of having regular dental x-rays?
Dentists can only see 30% of your teeth with their own eyesight and 70% with x-rays. These images are important in detecting your oral dental health. Digital x-rays offer more precision since we view the image on a computer monitor, instead of holding up a 35mm film up to the light. Digital x-rays result in 1/6th the radiation exposure to you when compared to traditional imaging methods.
Lasers
In Dentistry hard and soft tissue lasers still have limited use, and although we’ve tried them for a variety of procedures, our traditional techniques have so far yielded better results.
However Lasers can be used to diagnose cavities, and we’ve been using a Diagnodent Laser successfully for several years. They can find hidden decay in teeth in early stages, and in some cases the decay can be reversed through hygiene and fluoride treatment and may never need filling.
Intraoral Camera
Many patients, especially younger patients, are very familiar with the latest technology, and are comfortable with a modern, high tech practice. Computers and TV screens are many patient’s primary method of information processing.
Dr. Varadi utilizes intraoral camera technology that helps enhance your understanding of your diagnosis. An intraoral camera is a very small camera – in some cases, just a few millimeters long. An intraoral camera allows our practice to view clear, precise images of your mouth, teeth, and gums, in order for us to accurately make a diagnosis. With clear, defined, enlarged images, you see details that may be missed by standard mirror examinations. This extra information can mean a faster diagnosis, with less chair-time for you!
Intra-oral cameras also enable our practice to save your images in our office computer, providing a permanent record of treatments. These images can be printed for you, other specialists, and your lab or insurance companies.
