Our Technology
Digital X-rays
Digital x-rays have been one of the greatest advancements in modern medicine and dentistry, reducing your exposure to radiation by up to 90%! Digital technology also ensures a quicker image capture, so you don’t have to worry about taking and retaking x-rays over and over to get it just right. Bitewing x-rays can even be taken in a matter of seconds right from the chair!
X-rays help us see deeper
- X-rays reveal areas of tooth decay before they become visible to the naked eye.
- X-rays helps us evaluate the health and density of your jawbone.
- X-rays help us see abscesses and infections.
Never lie to an x-ray technician… they can see right through you! Ok ok, bad jokes aside, x-rays reveal a lot about your oral health.
Digital Panoramic & Cephalometric X-rays
Standard bitewing X-rays are taken regularly during check-ups, with the frequency depending on your risk of tooth decay. Panoramic X-rays, on the other hand, are typically used for planning treatments such as dentures, orthodontics, extractions, or dental implants. These digital X-rays provide a detailed view of the entire mouth in a single image, including the teeth, jaws, and surrounding tissues and structures.
Ceph x-rays:
- Are primarily used for orthodontic treatment planning.
- Show a complete profile view of the patient’s head.
- Are also commonly used by ENT doctors (ear, nose, and throat) because they show us the airway.
Intraoral Cameras
X-rays are wonderful for seeing problems below the surface (or, hopefully seeing how healthy you are!), but intraoral cameras give us a better look at the surfaces of your mouth. Thank goodness we no longer have to rely on the magic of sight and a dental mirror to peer around corners—we all know our eyes can deceive us! Intraoral cameras provide us with real-time video images that can be significantly magnified.
Benefits of intraoral cameras:
- They allow us to find and treat small problems before they progress.
- Provide a better look at hard-to-reach areas, and the images can be saved for your records.
- Help us detect tissue abnormalities and oral cancer in the early stages.
Not only do intraoral cameras help us see better, they also help you see what we see, so you can better understand your oral health and treatment needs.
CariVu™ Cavity Detection
Cavities (dental caries) are hard to spot with the naked eye, and even bitewing x-rays can leave cavities undetected sometimes. That’s why we’ve invested in CariVu caries detection technology that allows us to easily see even the smallest cavities, cracks, and lesions with a success rate of 99% (versus 96% with bitewing x-rays).
Benefits of CariVu
- Zero radiation means everyone can receive safe and effective cavity detection including children, pregnant women, and others who may be x-ray averse.
- Transillumination technology uses safe, near-infrared light to expose any carious lesions.
- A 99% accuracy rate means we will find and treat small problems before they progress.
CariVu uses transillumination technology to expose cavities, cracks, and lesions with ease. See it in action in the video!
iTero® Digital Impressions
Where intraoral cameras allow us to better view the surfaces of your mouth, intraoral scanners like the iTero Element allow us to take quick and easy digital impressions. These scans are then converted to real-time 3D digital models that we can use to map out precise treatment plans for restorative work and orthodontics. No messy impressions necessary!
Benefits of iTero
- Designed to connect seamlessly with our lab partners and Invisalign systems.
- See a preview of your new smile before we even begin your treatment.
- No nasty impressions. Digital scans are quick, easy, and minimally invasive—no gagging necessary.
We’ve gone digital, so all it takes is a quick scan to get started on your treatment plan! You’ll never have to gag on goopy physical impressions again.
LANAP Protocol
At Park Slope Dental Arts, we pride ourselves on performing minimally invasive procedures when possible. To that end, the LANAP protocol is one of the most effective and successful procedures in treating gum disease. Using a variable pulsed Nd:YAG laser, the LANAP Protocol targets the source of the soft-tissue inflammation without injuring or removing healthy gum tissue. This allows the body to heal from chronic infection without the need for scalpel or sutures.
Cone Beam Computed Tomography Imaging
The future of dental imaging begins here. The biggest step forward in dental imaging and diagnostics since the X-ray is Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT), which allows our practice to visualize minute details in all of our patients’ mouths – all in 3D. Every aspect, from your nerves to your sinuses and everything in between, we are able to analyze from every possible angle. Because of this massive leap in dental imaging technology, we can develop the best possible treatment plan for you, decreasing the need for invasive procedures and longer treatment times, while providing the best possible results.
Want to see what your dentist sees?
Contact your Brooklyn dentists at Park Slope Dental Arts today to schedule an exam! We’ll use our digital technology to show you what you’ve been missing.