Your Dental Future Depends on Your Choice of Dentistry, says The Academy of Healthy Dentistry

Learn More about Supra-Gingival Minimally Invasive Dentistry (A Healthier Alternative)

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Dec 20, 2017, 07:35 ET

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthy teeth contribute to a healthier and more satisfying life! The vast majority of people will get cavities and will need dental restorations, but the choice of how those cavities and teeth are repaired will significantly impact their dental future. While most dentists strongly support tooth conserving dentistry, full crowns are still the most popular way to repair damaged teeth. Crowns require drilling away 75% of the original tooth, drastically increasing the need for root canal and often damaging the gums in the process!

Healthy gums and healthy teeth treated with supra-gingival dentistry

Teeth treated with traditional dental crowns that have caused unhealthy, inflamed gums

Supra-gingival minimally invasive techniques are a healthier alternative. The more damaged the tooth, the more imperative it is to preserve the part that remains. Even when treating extremely complicated cases, supra-gingival minimally invasive dentistry is possible and also a better, healthier choice.

The preparation for dental crowns cuts 75% of the tooth away, turning the tooth into a small peg, compared with drilling only 35% of the tooth away for supra-gingival onlays, and even less for a supra-gingival veneer. Removing more than half of the tooth traumatizes the tooth and gum and the permanent damage to the tooth pulp leads to inflammation and pain. There are alternatives! Supra-gingival procedures are specifically designed to promote long term gum (periodontal) health by preventing the placement of dental materials below the gum.

Supra-gingival minimally invasive dentistry is a modern technique and uses up-to-date advances in materials such as adhesion. Supra-gingival onlays are a great alternative to dental crowns and do not require turning the tooth into a peg nor cause damage to the pulp. Supra-gingival veneers are no longer just for esthetic makeovers, but are a healthy substitute for front tooth crowns because they preserve the tooth structure. Both supra-gingival onlays and veneers provide a healthier treatment option for the patient.

Learn More: www.HealthyDentistry.org

The Academy of Supra-gingival Healthy Dentistry was passionately founded with an ambitious objective to spread and promote the knowledge and practice of supra-gingival minimally invasive dentistry. We are an organization of caring, educated, motivated and health-conscious clinicians who have created a platform with a goal to inform the public of healthier dentistry by providing a reservoir of educational, academic information on Supra-gingival healthy dentistry, as well as a place to allow patients to communicate with a dentist near them who is knowledgeable on such techniques.

Contact:
Hannah Levy
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SOURCE The Academy of Healthy Dentistry