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Last month we shared how to proper dental hygiene can improve your overall health and wellbeing. This idea of total body health has helped our team to set goals and work alongside our patients in staying healthy from head to toe.

As a way to commit to total body health in 2013, our team has decided to run the St. Jude Country Music Half Marathon this April. In the past, we’ve enjoyed watching marathoners and half-marathoners run by our offices as they head down the home stretch of their runs. If you’ve never cheered on runners for the Country Music Marathon, it’s quite the spectacle. But this year, we thought, “What better way to stay healthy from head to toe than by running it ourselves?”

What started out as an idea turned into reality after we did a little more research…

As we were checking out the details, we learned that giving back is a big part of the Country Music Half Marathon. The Country Music Marathon has partnered with St. Jude’s to allow participants to create St. Jude Heroes Teams as a way to improve the treatment of childhood cancer and other deadly diseases through its groundbreaking research.

After working alongside patients and downtown residents to collect over 1,000 canned goods for Second Harvest Food Bank at the end of 2012, we realized that registering our team was a no brainer!

 Along with our goal of running the half marathon, we’re launching a Downtown Dental Heroes Team to raise funds to support St. Jude's lifesaving mission of finding cures and saving children.

Join us in giving back and staying healthy from head to toe...

We we’re so grateful for our friends and patients supporting Second Harvest Food Bank back in November and December. Because you love to help others as much as we do, we thought that this was the perfect opportunity to combine staying healthy with giving back.

We hope you’ll join us in training, running and raising money for the St. Jude's children's hospital. By joining the Downtown Dental Team, we can work together to raise thousands of dollars to help children in need, all while staying healthy and having fun along the way!

Services

Prevention, Gum Health & Comfort

  • Cleanings & Gum Health: Gentle hygiene with laser therapy options to limit antibiotics.
  • Cavity Care: Conservative fillings/onlays that save healthy tooth.
  • Sensitivity & Emergency Relief: Same-day when possible.
  • Cold Sore & Ulcer Laser Treatment: Laser care for herpetic lesions/aphthous ulcers to reduce pain and speed healing.
  • Risk & Habits Review: Diet, saliva, myofunction, and mouth-breathing that elevate cavity/gum risk.
  • Homecare Plan: Simple, sustainable changes with measurable impact.

Restorative & Missing Teeth Replacement 

  • Conservative Cavity Care: Small, tooth-colored fillings that remove as little enamel as possible so your teeth last longer.
  • Inlays & Onlays First: Bonded inlays/onlays as our go-to over crowns, preserving far more natural tooth structure.
  • Enamel-Sparing Crowns: When crowns are truly needed, we design them to leave up to 50% more natural enamel than typical approaches.
  • Save-Your-Teeth Reconstruction: In severe wear or erosion, we rebuild and stabilize teeth that many offices would extract for full-arch implants, often avoiding full-mouth removal.
  • Full-Arch Implants When Needed: All-on-X-style implant solutions for cases that genuinely require extractions-never a one-size-fits-all default.
  • Bite-Tuned, Long-Lasting Results: Every restoration is calibrated to your bite to reduce fractures and the cycle of redoing dentistry every few years.

Bite, TMJ & Myofunction

  • Digital Bite Mapping & Calibration: Measure contacts and timing to stop chips, cracks, and “high” crowns.
  • Custom Day/Night Appliances: Designed to your ideal joint/muscle balance (beyond generic guards).
  • Myofunctional Therapy: Retrain tongue, lips, and breathing to reduce clenching, improve stability, and lower cavity/gum risk.
  • TMJ Care (Non-Surgical): Joint, muscles, teeth, airway/sleep, and posture considered together.

Airway, Sleep & Myofunction

  • Screening for Mouth-Breathing/Apnea: Identify sleep contributors to inflammation, decay, and grinding.
  • Oral Appliances and Myofunctional Therapy for Sleep Apnea: Plus collaboration with sleep/ENT partners.
  • Tongue-Tie Release (Frenectomy): When indicated, to support nasal breathing, speech, and oral function.

Orthodontics & Alignment (Adults & Teens)

  • Clear Aligners/Orthodontics: Improve alignment and function, timed to health and airway needs.
  • Relapse & Retention Planning: Stabilize muscles and bite so results last.

Kids & Growing Smiles

  • Early Growth & Airway Evaluation — Age-appropriate screening for nasal breathing, tongue posture, crowding, and sleep-related issues.
  • Myofunctional Support (Early Intervention) — Train healthy habits (nasal breathing, tongue posture, lip seal, chewing/swallow) to guide growth and reduce future problems.
  • Guided Orthodontics — When needed, we time orthodontic treatment to growth to expand space, correct crowding, and help them catch up if development is behind.
  • One Team, Clear Roadmap — We coordinate with parents on what to do now, what to watch, and when to act next.

Cosmetic & Facial Aesthetics

  • Prepless, conservative veneers: Transform your smile while preserving your natural enamel whenever possible.
  • Facially driven smile design & previews: Plan your smile around your face, lips, and profile-and use digital mockups/temporaries to try out your new look before anything is permanent.
  • Non-surgical "dental facelift": Improve facial support, fullness, and symmetry through thoughtful changes in bite and tooth position.
  • Additive cosmetic bonding: Repair chips and reshape worn edges without aggressive drilling.
  • Whitening & color harmony: Professional whitening and shade-matching that works with your natural teeth and restorations.
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Tuesday7:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Wednesday7:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Thursday7:00 AM – 5:00 PM
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