Top of the Line Technology

Dental technology is amazingly advanced, yet out-of-reach for most other dental offices. At Wheatland Dental Care, you'll receive the very best dental care from our highly trained doctors and staff using the very latest equipment.

Intraoral Camera

We use small cameras right inside your mouth to take highly magnified digital photos of your teeth. These photos can be displayed on a computer screen for both patient and doctor, and are invaluable in diagnosing and recording dental problems. Intra-oral photos also allow our patients to view what the dentist sees when they are evaluating your teeth.
 

Diagnodent

A cavity can be repaired much more easily in its earliest stages, often without the need for anesthetic. At Wheatland Dental Care, we use a specialized laser to detect cavities in the pits and grooves of teeth long before they could be found with traditional techniques. With this state-of-the-art instrument, called DIAGNODENT, we are able to keep teeth healthy and natural with early intervention.
 

Drill-less Dentistry - Air Abrasion

This exciting new technology helps avoid the use of needles and an uncomfortable numb feeling. It removes the smallest possible amount of tooth structure, and enables your dentist to place strong natural looking restorations in only a few minutes.
Air abrasion involves the use of a special hand piece that creates a beam of abrasive particles propelled by a stream of clean, dry air. Air abrasion is most effectively used for small early cavities, removal of stains, repair of small chips, and to repair or replace fillings.
 

Digital X-Rays

Digital radiography (as well as panoramic and tomography) is the latest way to take and evaluate x-rays. With digital x-rays, less radiation is needed to produce high-quality images. These images can then be evaluated on a large flat-screen monitor. This allows for easier detection of any problems. With such a large image, it is also easier for patients to see and understand what is happening with their teeth.
 

Panoramic X-Rays

Within one large film, panoramic X-rays reveal all of your upper and lower teeth as well as parts of your jaw.
 

Argon and Nd YAG Lasers

Wheatland Dental Care uses ND Yag and Argon lasers to make some of the most difficult dental procedures quick, easy, and comfortable.
 
 

TekScan and Bio Research Jaw Tracker

Neuromuscular Dentistry success rate increases with this impressive non-invasive machine which tracks and measures the movement of your jaw. No guesswork. Just solid information so that you can make informed decisions.
 

CEREC Machine

CEREC is revolutionary to dentistry and creates crowns in a day! Using a new computer aided machine called CEREC, we are able to make ceramic fillings and crowns while you wait. This technique eliminates the need for messy impressions and temporary crowns. It can also make fillings that last much longer than conventional ones, and they look beautiful!
 

Advanced Periodontal Program with phase-microscopy and cultures

By doing the cultures while you are in the office, you'll receive immediate feedback on the health of your teeth and gums.
 

Laser Can Find Cavities Early

Dentists are using a new technology that can detect a weakness in a tooth before it becomes a cavity. That could mean no more Novocain shots and no more drills.

Laser Cavity Detector
Diagnodent
Diagnodent
  • The device is a compact diode laser used to identify areas of tooth decay that traditional means, including X-rays, miss.

  • Diagnodent shines a laser beam down into the tooth, to a depth of 2.5 mm.

  • The device is aimed into the grooves of teeth, providing a decay reading to the dentist.


    Diagnodent is FDA-approved.
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    NewsCenter 5's Heather Kahn reports that Diagnodent is a new laser which finds hard-to-spot areas of tooth decay.

    "It puts out a laser beam down into the tooth, and that light reflects back towards the laser," Dr. Tom Orent of the Center for Esthetic Dentistry said. "If there's decay, there's a change in the wavelength. You get a reading from zero to 100 and are able to tell not only where the decay is, but how deep it is, how much decay there is."

    Orent said that regular dental exams and X-rays can miss as much as three-quarters of decay. One Swiss study showed that dental exams using a pick detected 57 percent of problems, while Diagnodent caught 90 percent of decay.
    "Certainly we'll see decay if it's large, but it's too late," Orent said. "At that point, you're looking at a very difficult restoration, a large filling or in some cases even root canal."

    Dental Laser

    By catching the decay early, dentists have a number of tools that can get rid of it, without Novocain or drilling. Other dentists say that more research is needed before Diagnodent is used in most dental offices, but they do agree that the technique is an exciting adjunct to X-rays and examination.

     

    "The thing I like about it and is promising is that it is not invasive," Dr. Fred Boustany of Boston Dental said. "It provides object measurement of the decay inside the tooth."

    That's good enough to keep patient Rosemary Casey smiling. "I think it's great, because you want to keep your teeth as long as you can," Casey said.