State-of-the-art Dental Technology in Solana Beach
At our Solana Beach dental practice, we are proud to serve the communities of Solana Beach and Encinitas with the highest level of care. Our commitment to utilizing cutting-edge technology ensures that we provide efficient and high-quality treatments, allowing us to offer faster and more effective care compared to many other dental offices.
Dr. Etesse, with her extensive experience, leads our dedicated team in delivering exceptional dental care. We focus on creating a comfortable and pleasant experience for you and your family with every visit. By incorporating the latest tools, techniques, and materials, we enhance your oral health and ensure that each treatment is gentle and effective. Our advanced technology and our team’s expertise come together to provide a superior dental experience tailored to meet your needs.
Digital Dental X-Rays
Dr. Charlotte Etesse and our expert team use the Nomad Dental X-ray unit to capture images of your teeth and supporting structures.
This advanced digital imaging device contains a special internal and external backscatter as well as DC voltage and a controlled focal spot, which minimize exposure to radiation for the patient. The images captured by this device allow our dentists to closely examine your smile and plan any treatments that you may need.
Patients more susceptible to radiation should feel safe getting these X-rays, because they use very little radiation.
Intraoral Cameras
An intraoral camera is an effective tool that is used in our office to illustrate what the inside of your mouth looks like. We can use the intraoral camera to show our patients what we’re seeing, so they can be active participants in their oral health. Intraoral cameras are tiny digital cameras that are able to capture images and videos of difficult-to-reach areas in the mouth.
We use these images to prescribe the correct treatment for our patients and keep an accurate health history log in each patient’s records.
Intraoral Scanning for Clear Aligners
Our intraoral dental scanner is a precise tool we use to make digital impressions for our Invisalign aligners. This intraoral scanner eliminates the need for traditional “goopy” impressions commonly used with metal braces. This scanner captures a highly accurate full-jaw scan and provides us with a blueprint from which we create clear aligners that will give you a beautiful, straight smile.
At Etesse Holistic and Cosmetic Dentistry, we are committed to staying on top of the latest trends and equipment in dental technology to ensure that our patients have continual access to the very best tools and techniques for their oral health. That is why we are excited to offer you iTero Wellness Scanning. This advanced technology allows our doctors and team to deliver exceptional patient care that exceeds traditional dental appointments.
Platelet-Rich Fibrin (PRF)
Platelet-Rich Fibrin (PFR) is made by drawing a small amount of blood from the patient and spinning it in a centrifuge. This platelet treatment is used during many different oral surgery procedures.
PRF allows for reduced healing time and decreases post-treatment pain and swelling. Sometimes patients have heard of PRP instead of PRF when it comes to accelerated tissue healing boosters. PRF is the next generation of healing boosters.
PRF is produced more easily, does not require any additives or blood manipulation, and produces a larger share of product from the blood that is taken from the patient. PRF also contains more stem cells and more healing factors.
CEREC Same-Day Crowns
CEREC stands for Chairside Economical Restoration of Esthetic Ceramics. We use CEREC in our office near Encinitas as a modern digital dentistry technology that allows us to create custom-made ceramic crowns to restore damaged teeth. CEREC technology allows us to shape and color match the tooth crown to the surrounding teeth, then mill it in under 30 minutes. With CEREC crowns technology, you can have a brand-new dental crown in just one appointment.
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Dr. Charlotte Etesse uses advanced Biolase® Epic iLase® laser technology to perform laser bacterial reduction (LBR) and other procedures.
When LBR is performed, most of the bacteria in the mouth are killed, greatly reducing the strain on the immune system and making cleanings and other treatments safer to perform. Laser dental procedures are highly effective and are also non-invasive, painless, and inexpensive.
The Biolase laser is gentle, flexible, and an effective way to manage gum disease and improve your oral health. We choose laser dentistry for some of our treatments because it makes procedures faster, smoother, and more precise.
Some of the procedures that we use our soft-tissue dental laser for are:
- Gum lifts
- Frenectomies
- Teeth whitening
- Cold or canker sore treatment
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3D Cone Beam Scanner
In our Solana Beach office, also serving Encinitas, we use a 3D cone beam scanner to assist us in providing excellent modern dental care to our patients. The 3D cone beam scanner is a highly advanced dental technology that provides us with a three-dimensional image reconstruction of your teeth, mouth, jaw, neck, ears, nose, and throat.
The 3D cone beam scanner helps us plan and carry out treatments. Here are a few examples of how we use it:
- Surgical planning for impacted teeth
- Evaluating the jaw, sinuses, nerve canals, and nasal cavity
- Determining bone structure and tooth orientation
- Locating the origin of pain
- Reconstructive surgery
- Planning dental implant placement
MiniSTAR S®
Our office features the MiniSTAR S® device, a positive pressure machine for thermal folding. Using the Biostar® and MiniSTAR S, our dentists and team can form a wide variety of thermal plastics that range in thickness from 0.1mm up to 5mm. Some of the devices that can be created using this technology include:
- Splints
- Mouth guards
- Bleaching trays
- Hawley retainers
- Invisible retainers
The MiniSTAR S® device is accurate enough to create a matrix for duplicating models as well, so you will not need to sit through the impression process twice if something happens to your appliance.
3D Printing
Our dentists use the Sprint Ray 3D printing system to create models and dental appliances with unparalleled levels of speed, quality, and precision.
This all-in-one system makes it easy for Dr. Charlotte Etesse to create oral appliances and restorations that perfectly fit your smile and mouth. 3D printing allows us to create very accurate restorations or oral appliances that will be used in your dental treatments.
By using this high-quality printing technology, we are able to provide our patients with the highest quality restoration and will reduce your treatment costs. 3D printing technology is commonly used for:
- Dental crowns
- Dental bridges
- Night guards
- Indirect bonding trays
- Denture bases
- Dental and orthodontic models
LANAP Periodontal Regeneration
The LANAP Protocol is a laser based treatment for gum disease. It stands for Laser Assisted New Attachment Procedure. The LANAP protocol uses the Millenium PerioLase® MVP-7 Laser, which is the only laser procedure that is FDA certified for true periodontal regeneration. The laser operates at a specific wavelength that targets the bacteria that contribute to gum disease while leaving healthy tissues intact.
Patient benefits of LANAP laser periodontal surgery include faster healing, less discomfort, reduced inflammation, reduced gum recession, and decreased complications for patients with health concerns.
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iTero Digital Wellness Scans
At Etesse Holistic and Cosmetic Dentistry, we are committed to staying on top of the latest trends and equipment in dental technology to ensure that our patients have continual access to the very best tools and techniques for their oral health. That is why we are excited to offer you iTero Wellness Scanning. This advanced technology allows our doctors and team to deliver exceptional patient care that exceeds traditional dental appointments.
iTero Wellness Scanning uses an intraoral scanner to digitally capture a patient’s teeth, gums, and bite. This leading-edge dental technology allows us to provide extraordinary patient care while allowing our patients to make informed decisions about their oral health. The iTero scanner allows us to accurately track various concerns such as tooth wear from grinding, crowding and gum recession over time. The iTero scanner is a non-invasive process that digitally captures thousands of pictures without radiation, making it a safe and comfortable experience. Scanning takes about 5 minutes and will you to review your oral health side by side with Dr. Charlotte Etesse.
Ozone Therapy
Ozone is a natural and non-invasive method to disinfect by killing viruses, bacteria, and fungi. Ozone is basically supercharged oxygen that has three oxygen atoms instead of two, giving it a negative charge that helps it fight the positively charged microorganisms. Ozone can be used in dentistry as ozone gas, ozonated water, or ozonated oil.
Ozone is made by taking medical-grade oxygen and running it through an ozone generator. This ozone is generally captured as a gas in a syringe or used to ozonate water.
See How Our Advanced Dental Technology Can Advance Your Smile!
We strive to use advanced dental technology to make your experience as efficient, comfortable, and enjoyable as possible. Our dental practice is conveniently located in Solana Beach where we proudly serve patients from both Solana Beach, Encinitas and the surrounding areas. Schedule an appointment to see how our technology can help you. We look forward to hearing from you soon!
