- General Dentistry
- Cosmetic Dentistry
- Prosthodontry & Implants
- Hybridge Dental Implant Bridge
- Orthodontia
- Endodontry
- Invisalign
- BOTOX®
- Dermal Fillers
- Teeth Whitening
General Dentistry
A general dentist is your primary care dental provider. Dr. Abreu diagnoses, treats, and manages your overall oral health care needs, including gum care, root canals, fillings, crowns, veneers, bridges, and dental implants along with preventive education.
Cosmetic Dentistry
Today, cosmetic dentistry is more popular than ever, from whitening and shaping to closing spaces and replacing teeth. Cosmetic dentists have a wide array of tools and techniques at their disposal for improving the look of your smile. Dr. Abreu specializes in cosmetic dentistry, including Teeth Whitening, Bonding, Veneers, Crowns, Enamel Shaping and Contouring, Braces, Bridges, Implants and other Periodontal Plastic procedures.
Prosthodontry & Implants
A prosthodontist is the oral health care provider who specializes in the repair of natural teeth and/or the replacement of missing teeth on a much larger scale than the general dentist. Dr. Abreu uses artificial teeth (dentures), gold crowns (caps), or ceramic crowns to replace the missing or extracted teeth. Dr. Abreu is also very involved in the replacement of teeth using dental implants.
What Are Dental Implants?
Dental implants are replacement tooth roots. Implants provide a strong foundation for fixed (permanent) or removable replacement teeth that are made to match your natural teeth.
How Can Dental Implants Improve My Life?
If damage or loss of teeth has made your life worse, implants can bring immediate changes that will improve your quality of life. The implant placement procedure is intensive, and will require patience if you decide to have the procedure. However, if you want a solution that lasts for a lifetime, dental implants are the gold standard for teeth replacement. Dental implants do not merely give you fake teeth in your mouth, but they function like natural teeth after they are inserted. They also give you the following benefits, which will convice you that you have made the right choice in replacing your lost teeth.
Dental Implants Reduce Speech Impediments
Speech determines how the world sees us and, often, how we see ourselves. That's why improving the way we speak can help increase well-being. Many people who are missing teeth lose the confidence to speak in public. They don't want others to see the gaps in their smile, or they're worried about dentures slipping and shifting as they talk.
Dental implants eliminate this concern because they look and work like natural teeth. Implants will never slip or shift in public. That way, you can feel confident to speak up again.
Implants Improve Eating Habits
How and what we eat is one of the top contributors to a healthy life. Proper chewing of food helps improve digestion and lowers the risk of health complications like cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer, and obesity. Importantly, eating also affects satiety, which is the satisfaction we feel after having a meal. Implants allow you to eat what you want, when you want, and where you want, allowing you to feel happier and be healthier.
Dental Implants Boost Self-Confidence
Boosting your sense of self-worth can help you become more resilient to stress and depression. Dental implants improve the way you look and feel, giving your self-confidence a major boost. Teeth help shape your facial structure, and as teeth fall out, the face shape begins to sag and look older. Filling out your smile with implants will restore your natural face shape, so you'll look younger. Another way implants build confidence is by improving your smile. When you have a full set of teeth, you'll want to show them off more often. Research shows that people who smile frequently feel happier.
Implants Increase Dental Health and Overall Health
Having missing teeth and wearing dentures increase your risk for oral complications like periodontal disease. Getting dental implants decreases this risk, and helps prevent additional oral health problems like:
- Further tooth loss
- Jawbone loss
- Bite force reduction
Improving oral health with implants also has implications for your overall health. This is because higher levels of oral bacteria correlate with conditions like cardiovascular disease, pregnancy complications, and pneumonia.
Hybridge Dental Implant Bridge
The Hybridge full arch dental implant bridge is a simple, lasting solution for those in need of full-mouth reconstruction due to congenital conditions, accident, or dental disease. Dr. Abreu specializes in full-mouth dental implant restorations, and Hybridge offers a unique process that seamlessly blends professional care with exceptional technology and artistry to restore comfort and full dental function. Hybridge's proven treatments transform our patient's confidence, appearance and quality of life.
Actual Patients
What Is Hybridge?
Hybridge provides highly qualified dentists a consistent implant process and offers both quality dental implants and the final Hybridge restorations those dentists support.
The Hybridge Full Mouth Dental Implant Bridge System
The standardized Hybridge clinical protocol has been proven to speed up the total treatment process for patients as compared to conventional techniques while ensuring safe, highly esthetic, and predictable results. Hybridge, through its comprehensive training methods, is the only full mouth restoration option available that has established a requirement of such a consistent clinical process. This process has standardized many of the clinical steps, which provides safeguards that the same technique is used regardless of which Hybridge office the patient chooses.
State-of-the-Art Technology Meets World Class Craftsmanship
Hybridge Dental Implant restorations are created here in the USA with precision technology and craftsmanship, ensuring an authentic solution that gives our patients the beautiful teeth and healthy mouth they've been longing for. The renewed confidence, newfound comfort and ease of maintenance you'll enjoy with Hybridge Dental Implants will transform your quality of life for many years to come.
The Hybridge Full Mouth Bridge
The manufacturing of the teeth themselves is of importance to patients when choosing a Full Arch dental implant solution - thus understanding how the final Hybridge restoration is made, its material composition, as well as the talents required of the artisan technicians at the Hybridge Laboratory will help fulfill treatment objectives and expectations of a new smile. Patients rely on the positive and proven reputation of the process, and Hybridge providers stand by the quality of the products they create made for lasting results for patients.
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Orthodontia
An orthodontist is the oral health care provider who specializes in diagnosis, prevention, interception, and treatment of malocclusions, or "bad bites", of the teeth and surrounding structures. Malocclusions can result from crowded, missing, or extra teeth or jaws that are out of alignment. Dr. Abreu can straighten teeth by moving them through bone by the use of bands, wires, braces, and other fixed or removable corrective appliances or retainers.
Endodontry
An endodontist is the dental specialist concerned with the causes, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases and injuries of the human dental pulp or the nerve of the tooth. Dr. Abreu can perform simple to difficult root canal treatments or other types of surgical root procedures.
Invisalign
Your First Consultation
Choosing Invisalign treatment is an important dental and financial decision, so it's essential that you find the right doctor for you. You may want to meet with several experienced Invisalign-trained doctors to find the one you feel most comfortable with.
At your initial consultation, your doctor will discuss your needs and evaluate whether Invisalign treatment is right for you.
Your Custom Treatment Plan
Your doctor will use a scanner such as the iTero® digital scanning system to create fast, precise 3D digital images of your teeth. (Some doctors will take physical impressions.)
Then your doctor will map out a precise treatment plan, including the exact movements of your teeth and how long your treatment will be. You'll even get to see how your teeth will move and preview your new smile.
Your Invisalign Clear Aligners
Your custom-made aligners will be made of our proprietary SmartTrack® material. They're virtually invisible, so most people won't even notice you're wearing them during your teeth straightening.
Wear your Invisalign clear aligners 20 to 22 hours a day for the best results, taking them out to eat and to brush and floss.
Your Progress
As you wear each set of aligners, your teeth will gently and gradually shift into place. Your doctor may recommend that you begin wearing a new set of aligners every week and schedule check-ups every six weeks or so.
At every stage you'll be able to see your progress and imagine how far your new smile will take you.
Taking Care of Your New Smile
When your treatment is complete, ask your doctor about a Vivera® retainer. Vivera retainers are custom-made using the same state-of-the-art technology as Invisalign clear aligners.
BOTOX®
Bruxism and TMJ Disorders
Do you suffer from Bruxism (teeth grinding) or another TMJ condition?
BOTOX® is a proven alternative to help you alleviate symptoms and provide instant relief.
Many patients see their dentist with complaints of jaw or facial pain. In many cases, this pain is caused by either bruxism (teeth grinding) or temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorders, which are related conditions.
TMJ disorders refer to a collection of jaw problems that may be treated by a dentist. The jaw joint is a complex one, with a number of structure which facilitate vertical and lateral movements. Problems may develop in the numerous muscles, ligaments and nerves that help the joint perform correctly. A misaligned jaw can also lead to TMJ disorder.
What are the Symptoms of TMJ Disorders?
- Jaw pain or stiffness
- Earaches
- Clicking or popping noises during chewing
- Masseter muscle enlargement (squared face appearance)
BOTOX® Treatment for TMJ
The BOTOX® alternative treatment for TMJ disorders and jaw tension is usually quick and effective.
Who is a Candidate for BOTOX® Jaw Treatment?
BOTOX® is a safe alternative treatment for most people who experience jaw tension or have a TMJ disorder. This treatment helps to alleviate pain from many joint and muscle spasms associated with TMJ.
What are the Benefits of BOTOX® Treatment for Jaw Tension?
BOTOX® injections often provide substantial relief while reducing the ability of facial muscles to engage in problematic, excessive grinding.
BOTOX® allows muscles to perform daily activities such as talking, chewing, and swallowing. In addition, the treatment can help safeguard dental health, since excessive grinding can result in worn teeth and damaged gums that may require costly treatment.
How Long does the TMJ BOTOX® Treatment Take?
The TMJ BOTOX® treatment is a non-surgical procedure performed in our dental office that takes just a few minutes.
How Long do the Results Last?
Most patients experience noticeable improvement within 1-2 days of their first treatment, although relief can take up to a week. Results last 3-4 months.
BOTOX® Treatment for Teeth Grinding
Bruxism is a specific condition in which people grind or clench their teeth, often while sleeping (most do so involuntarily). Grinding or clenching causes causes the muscle to grow stronger, resulting in headaches, earaches, or facial pain, which worsen with time.
What are the Benefits of the BOTOX® Bruxism Treatment?
BOTOX® treatments have been shown to alleviate Bruxism. BOTOX® Bruxism treatment works by relaxing the jaw muscle sufficiently to reduce grinding symptoms while maintaining normal jaw and teeth action.
How Long does the BOTOX® Bruxism Treatment Take?
BOTOX® treatment of teeth grinding is painless and quick (5 minutes). Results from BOTOX® treatment of bruxism start 2-3 days after injection and last for about 4 months.
While bruxism can lead to TMJ problems, the category of TMJ disorders is much broader. Issues with any component of the jaw joint may be classified within TMJ disorders.
Symptoms of Bruxism
- Severely worn teeth and/or chipped teeth
- Receded gums in the absence of gum disease
- Chewed inner surface of the cheek and/or damage to the tongue
- Higher incidence of root canals, major dental work on back teeth
- Sore jaw muscles in the morning
- Headaches, earaches and toothaches
- Problems eating and grinding noises
- Facial pain
- A face that looks shortened between the nose and chin
What are the Effects of Bruxism?
- Compression of the nerves and blood vessels in the back of the jaw joint, which can cause headaches, face, jaw and neck pain
- Displacement of the cartilage disc, indicating a dislocation of the joint and resulting in clicking, popping or grating noises upon opening and closing of the jaw
- Further compromise of the airway, making obstructive sleep apnea even more possible
If you have tried to treat your TMJ disorder with mouth guards and other measures without any improvement, you should ask our office about the benefits of the TMJ BOTOX® treatment.
Dermal Fillers
Treatment for Black Triangles Between Teeth
Diminish the appearance of noticeable black triangles between your teeth with a minimally invasive dermal filler treatment. This simple treatment can take care of both aesthetic and functional concerns.
What Causes Black Triangles Between Teeth?
- As we age, we often get recession of our gums which can lead to loss of the tissue between our teeth
- Over-flossing, loss resulting in damaged gums
- Post dental work such as veneers or implants
Who are Good Candidates for the Black Triangle Dermal Filler Treatment?
Good candidates include people who like their teeth but are concerned with small gaps between them. Dermal fillers can help fill in these gaps, leaving the shape of the teeth alone.
How Long do the Treatments Take and Last?
Treatment takes approximately 5-10 minutes. Patients can expect the results to last 8 months or longer.
Teeth Whitening
Dr. Abreu understands the importance of the smile on creating a positive first impression on others. The health, beauty, and welcoming personality that a smile conveys is essential in building meaningful relationships. As a result, he offers teeth whitening services as one of the most inexpensive options for improving your smile and give you back the radiant look that will make other people pay attention when you walk in the room.