Dental Health Care Center

If you are looking for a comfortable pediatric dental care for your child, you will like to visit Familia Dental. Despite the fact that this dental care provider can be found in many different locations through the country, they provide a wide play area for children so that they can enjoy their dental visits. A theatre room, an indoor park, and game stations are provided in all offices. In addition, all dentists in this company are kind and patient.

Beside Familia Dental is perfect for children, this provider also offers high quality dental care for adults. What makes this provider great is that they charge you more affordable prices than many dental care providers in this country.

Their services include bridges, root canal treatment, digital dental X-rays, restoring damaged teeth, and teeth whitening. When you visit the dental care provider for the first time, they will perform an X-rays examination in order to find out your jaw’s structure, malformed roots, oral tissue, tooth decay and other your dental problems. On your regular checkups, you will get necessary services related to your dental problems and even suggestion for maintaining healthy teeth.

However, the problem you may face when it comes to educating your child on dental care or oral hygiene is that the difficulty in explaining the importance of dental care in a way that your child can understand. In this case, their dentists have certain methods so that your child will understand quickly and then cooperate to maintain their healthy teeth.

Different from other providers, this company provides any dental services at any time in case you need an emergency dental treatment. No matter morning or evening, you are allowed to get their quality services.

The head office of Familia Dental is located at 2050 E Algonquin Road, Schaumburg, Illinois. However, there are twenty offices you can choose to come to. Just to mention a few, there is one in Elgin, New Braunfels, Wheeling, Abilene, and many other locations.

In order to make a beautiful smile keep appearing on the face of your precious child, it is better for you to take your child to the nearest office as soon as you notice the first teeth of your baby arise. Also, in a year, it is recommended to see a dentist twice. For maintaining healthy teeth in a long term, taking the Familia Dental insurance plan can be beneficial for you.

Dental X-Rays examination has become the way the doctor helps the patients to know their oral health, which is including the identification of mouth, teeth, and jaw problem.Through the dental X-rays, both the doctor and patient will see if there was cavity, benign or cancerous, hidden dental structures, and bone loss that hardlyobserved during visual examination.

Types of Dental X-Rays

In order to find the dental problem of patient more precisely, there are two types of dental X-rays usually used in dentistry. They are the intraoral and the extraoral. Intraoral means the X-ray film is inside the mouth, while the extraoral means that the X-ray film is outside the mouth.

Intraoral X-Ray

Since the methodrequires the dentist to put the X-ray film or sensor inside the mouth, it will provide more detail information related to the patient’s dental health. It alsoallows the dentist to find cavities, both tooth root checking and bone surrounding the tooth, monitor the development of teeth as well as monitoring the patient’s general health of teeth and jawbone. Intraoral X-ray itself has three subtypes; they are including Bite-wing X-rays, Periapical X-rays, Occlusal X-rays.

         1. Bitewing X-Rays

This method used for checking the teeth, both lower and upper teeth, from the crown to the level of supporting bone. It will help the dentist to locate the decay between the teeth and to know the bone density level that might have changed due to the gum disease. The bitewing X-rays are also useful to determine either proper fit for the crown or cast restoration, and useful for knowing the fillings’ marginal integrity. It is only capable of showing one area of the mouth.

        2. Periapical X-Rays

It is used to check the whole part of the tooth. This type of X-ray allows the dentist to determine the abnormalities of the root structure and the root surrounding the jaw, as it displays from the anterior to posterior of the teeth.

        3. Occlusal X-rays

This is the largest X-ray from the other two intraoral X-ray types. The occlusal X-rays help the doctor to know the full tooth development and the placement. The occlusal film will display every portion of the teeth, completed with the entire arch of them either upper or lower jaw.

Extraoral X-rays

Different with the intraoral X-rays that show the detail information of teeth, Extraoral X-rays provide information of teeth, but the main objective of them is showing the jaw and skull. Since it does not provide detail information of teeth, the extraoralcannot be used for determining abnormalities of teeth. Just the same as the intraoral, the extraoral has several types within its type.

        1. Panoramic X-rays

Panoramic helps the doctor in locating the fully emerged as well as emerging teeth, identifying the impacted teeth, and useful for tumors diagnose. On a single X-ray, the panoramic X-rays will help the doctor to see the entire patient’s mouth area, the entire teeth in both the upper and lower jaws.

        2. Tomograms

This type of X-ray is useful to see a particular layer of the mouth while blurring out all other layers. The doctor to examine structures that are difficult to clearly see usually uses tomograms. As for the example, the doctor who wants to examine the structures those are in very close proximity to other structures.

       3. CephalometricProjections

The Cephalometricprojectionsusually used by the Orthodontist to develop their treatment plans. The main objective of Cephalometric projections is examining the teeth in relation with jaw and profile. This type of X-ray will display the entire side of the head.

       4. Sialography

Sialography usually used by the dentist to check or see the salivary gland problems, such as blockages or Sjögren’s syndrome. It works by injecting dye, called a radiopaque contrast agent, into salivary glands so that the organ can be seen on the X-ray film. This method is very useful when examining the salivary gland’s problems due to the inability of the X-ray to display the soft tissue.

      5. Computed Tomography

Computed tomography, or also known as CT scan, is a type of X-ray that used to identify problems in the face, which is including tumors or fractures. Instead of used by the dentist, it is usually performed in hospital or radiology. In dentistry, the main objective of CT scan isto evaluate bone for the placement of dental implants and difficult extractions.

Apart from those types of Dental X-Rays, there is also another type of X-ray used by the dentist in examining the patient. It is called digital imaging. The biggest different between digital imaging with the other dental X-rays is the X-ray films are sent to the computer directly so they can be viewed on screen, print out and stored. Compared to the other types of X-ray, this technique uses less radiation as well as save more time in getting the result due to the image can be seen on the screen right after being taken. Apart from that, the image can be enhanced and enlarged several times  on the computer screen.

References:

• Dental Radiography.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_radiography. Accessed on April 3, 2012 at 1:44
• Dental X-rays.webmd.com/oral-health/guide/dental-x-rays. Accessed on April 3, 2012 at 1:44
• X-rays. ada.org/2760.aspx. Accessed on April 3, 2012 at 1:44
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