Restorative dentistry

Our clinic teaches patients the importance of naturally healthy teeth, emphasizing regular preventive examinations and dental hygiene.

Initial examination and prevention

The current condition of a patient’s teeth and mouth are assessed at the first initial examination, with a recommendation of the best possible solutions.

Teeth cleaning and dental hygiene

It is already a standard procedure for teeth to be cleaned by a hygienist to keep them and gums healthy. It is recommended at least twice a year and includes the following:

• Instruction and training in dental hygiene
• Ultrasound tartar removal
• Brushing the teeth with abrasive, fluoride-added toothpaste to remove plaque
• Fluoridating the teeth
• Checking for gingivitis and periodontal disease

Sanding

Teeth are sanded only if they are heavily pigmented especially when treating periodontal disease.

Fine powders are used that in no way harm the tooth or surrounding tissue.

White filling

White fillings are the standard today for small and medium-sized cavities and defects. High-quality white fillings have excellent, full-value esthetic and mechanical features and can even replace long-term a missing part of a tooth. The advantage of them is the option of immediately filling a tooth to allow a patient to eat immediately afterward.

Inlays/onlays

When there are medium or large cavities and a large part of the tooth is lost, esthetic and mechanically resistant fillings can replace tooth tissue.

Inlays, onlays and overlays are composed of a solid ceramic, tooth-colored material with a similar structure to a real tooth.  They are produced while you wait from a scan directly at the clinic, so you can leave with your tooth treated and filled on the same day.

Inlays, onlays and overlays are composed of a solid ceramic, tooth-colored material with a similar structure to a real tooth.  They are produced directly from a scanned PC imprint right in the clinic, with just one sitting in the dentist’s chair, so a patient can leave with the tooth treated and filled on the same day.

inlay -	Filling used to replace a small part of the tooth
onlay -	Filling to replace a larger part of the tooth
overlay -	for situations where only the chewing surface has to be replaced

Advantages:

• No waiting – the tooth is ready in one visit to the clinic
• Single anesthesia
• Only one drilling like for a standard filling
• No imprinting or makeshift solutions
• Biocompatible material
• Only made from ceramic blocks
• Significantly more esthetic and functional than ordinary fillings.

Endodontics 

Endodontic treatment (euphemistically called root canal work) should start when a cavity has penetrated to the dental nerve and begun damaging it.

Endodontics comprises accessing and locating the root canals where the pulp of the tooth is. The pulp is then removed and the root canal space simultaneously filled with gutta-percha pins. Because teeth are fragile, a crown is often the final solution.

Endodontic instruments, particularly penetrators and files, are indicated for single use for endodontic treatment of a patient’s infected tooth. These strict rules stem from the inability to thoroughly clean and sterilize these instruments and because they can be a source of prions, proteins able to transfer their misfolded shape. They cannot be destroyed through sterilization of the instruments and can cause fatal iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (iJCD).

There is no effective cure for iCJD and it can only be prevented by dental outpatient clinics following strict rules, namely to treat patients with disposable endodontic instruments.

Rules

ArtDentistics adheres to these strict principles for endodontic treatment for this reason. All endodontic instruments are used only once.

This guarantees our patients safe treatment in compliance with EU legislation.