CEREC Restorations Acworth, GA

CEREC restorations

Dr. Alan S. Horlick knows your life is busy. That’s why he wants to make your visit to the dentist as convenient as possible. Dr. Horlick uses CEREC (Chairside Economical Restoration of Esthetic Ceramics), a revolutionary system that allows him to design, create and fit a new crown, veneer, onlay or inlay in a single visit. Procedures like this used to take as long as three weeks and multiple visits.

What is CEREC?

The multi-instrument CEREC system consists of an infrared digital camera, a computer with 3-D imaging software and a milling unit with diamond instruments for quick, precise and highly detailed construction of CEREC crowns, or restorations.

The benefits of CEREC

Single-appointment treatment: For most procedures, you’ll only need to see Dr. Horlick once, instead of the usual two or three visits required with conventional restoration techniques.

Improved outcomes: Since the restoration is designed and fabricated from start to finish by Dr. Horlick, he has complete control over how it will look and feel in your mouth.

No more impressions: Say goodbye to gagging as you will not need to have an impression made.

No need for temporaries: Conventional restoration procedures require you to wear temporary restorations while the lab makes your new one. CEREC eliminates this inconvenience.

High-quality materials: CEREC uses strong, tooth-colored ceramic materials to restore your teeth to their natural strength, beauty and function.

Oral Cancer Screening Acworth, GA

It is now easier than ever to detect oral cancer early. This is when probability of a cure is extremely high. You should also know that half of all patients who are diagnosed with oral cancer survive more than five years. Early detection and prevention are the best cures.

Dr. Horlick has the skills and tools necessary to identify cancer and pre-cancerous conditions. Regular check-ups, including an examination of the entire mouth, are essential in the early detection. By screening all patients annually, Dr. Horlick can detect problems early.

He will carefully examine the inside of your mouth and tongue. Some patients have a flat, painless, white or red spot or a small sore. Most of these are harmless. Harmful oral spots or sores may look exactly like harmless ones. Only testing can tell them apart. If you have a sore with a likely cause, your dentist may treat it and ask you to return for re-examination.

Family and Cosmetic Dentistry Acworth

Maximize your smile’s potential

Have you thought about making improvements to your smile but felt unsure of your options? Dr. Alan S. Horlick can help. His experience and expertise in family and cosmetic dentistry has helped thousands of patients transform their smiles, sometimes in as little as one or two office visits. Read on to learn which advanced procedures might be right for you.

Take your teeth from dull to dazzling – in under an hour

In less time than it takes to lunch with a friend or colleague, you can achieve the kind of dazzling white smile that turns heads. Dr. Horlick offers his patients Zoom!® Advanced Power™ in-office teeth whitening, which transforms your teeth and takes them up to eight shades whiter – in as little as 45 minutes. Advantages of Zoom! teeth whitening include:

•  No messy trays to wear
•  Can be done on your lunch hour
•  Instant results – perfect for special occasions

Smoking delays healing of wound in extracted tooth (and other oral surgery)

Tobaccos and cigarettes contain a toxic, odorless and colorless substance called carbon monoxide that injures the walls of blood vessels, causing scarring and subsequent blockage of blood flow. Poor transport of blood deprives the injured site of adequate blood and slows down healing. Tissue healing begins with clotting (hardening) of blood around the wound to seal the bleeding.

Carbon monoxide also takes away oxygen from the blood by attaching to hemoglobin first before oxygen does. Hemoglobin in the blood carries oxygen to the tissues. Tissues deprived of oxygen experience cell death.

Also, nicotine is a vasoconstrictor (narrows blood vessels), thus reducing nutritional blood flow to the wound. Nicotine also triggers the release of cholesterol and stored fat, which may lead to fatty plaque buildup inside the blood vessel. And because blood pressure is high from a narrowed blood opening, fats are mobilized in the bloodstream, leading to clogging. Either way, the end result is atherosclerosis (necrosis, or hardening of the arteries). Recent studies show that prolonged exposure to nicotine gives rise to formation of new blood vessels that supply a lifeline to plaques, causing further congestion and loss of blood vessel elasticity.

The chain of events does not stop there. Nicotine also makes blood coagulate (clot), increasing the risk of blood clots blocking a blood vessel (thrombosis). It also suppresses cells that produce collagen (responsible for tissue integrity) and white blood cells of the immune system that fight infection. This explains why smoking increases the risk of gum infection. Wounds in the mouth that do not heal well or quickly are susceptible to infection, resulting in failure of dental treatment, implant or surgery.

What happens here is also the pathogenesis (course of events) of major illnesses like lung diseases, diabetes, stroke and heart disease. Cigarette smoking accounts for nearly 440,000 deaths every year in the United States.

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