Our practice has been in the Bradford, Massachusetts section of Haverhill since 1960. We still treat patients whom my dad treated when he started the practice. And those patients still have their own teeth! But as people age, they get “long in the tooth”. That means their gums recede and spaces are created between the teeth. These spaces manifest as the dreaded “black triangle”. A 2001 study showed that 1/3 of all patients exhibited some unsightly black triangles. Patients are always asking if we can eliminate those unaesthetic areas.
Well, we can! We have using a system designed by Dr. David Clark from Washington state. I attended one of his lectures many years ago, and we have been using his very conservative technique with great success. It involves very little, if any, drilling. Local anesthetic (Novocain), is rarely needed and we can accomplish the procedure in one visit. I recently restored six teeth on one patient in a little over an hour.
The patient is an adult male who was fist bumping me on his way out our office. He was incredulous and obviously ecstatic with what we could accomplish in a relatively short and painless visit. This is a great example of the artistic component of dentistry which is combined with a state of the art technique designed a phenomenal teacher in David Clark. Dentistry has reached levels where we can restore many teeth which previously could not be saved. The nearby case is just one example of services we provide at our general dental office.
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