Our comprehensive exam requires the necessary digital x-rays, intraoral pictures of your teeth, oral cancer & TMJ screening, and gum pocket charting of all your teeth. We will follow that with a dental cleaning. During this visit, we will also review your medical, dental and lifestyle/nutrition history. Our goal is to gather information that […]
There will be time that a regular cleaning is not enough to keep our patient gum healthy. When there is so much deposit under the gum for a long time, that would irritate the gum and causing it to bleed and eventually destroy the gum fiber that holds the teeth firm. As a result, […]
It is our belief that it is always best to preserve what we were given at birth. It really saddened us when we have to remove tooth structure due to caries or fracture. We only proceed to crown option when we see that the filling is more than half of the tooth, or filling […]
We do perform most extraction here on site under local anesthesia. However if our patient wishes to be sedated, we would refer you out to nearby trusted oral surgeons. With all extractions, pain can be avoided if we take the proper medication at the prescribed time and home care instruction followed. If bone grafting […]
It is the most ideal way to restore missing teeth, much more conservation than doing a bridge, and much more comfortable than partial denture. We usually refer our patient out to our trusted and well-trained oral surgeons who routinely do implants every day. Our surgeons will place the implant. We will coordinate with them […]
There are times when we see our patient a bit later than we would have liked and the tooth had already been compromised, i.e. caries reaching the nerve chamber, there are certain options we can approach.
1. If the tooth has no previous history of prolonged pain and there is no root abscess and there […]
It is the traditional way of restoring missing teeth. Now a day, partial or full dentures are much more sophisticated and have a variety of material choice to make it more esthetic and comfortable. You do not have to see metal. We will go over your different options. If properly done, a denture can […]
There are so many ways to make your smile beautiful for any budget. It can be simple and inexpensive as whitening your teeth or recontouring and blending the shape of your teeth. It can also be more complex should you want veneers (a super thin porcelain piece that would be cemented over your natural […]
We offer Invisalign and Short-Term Ortho (STO) for adults and teens. For children under twelve years old, if appropriate, we offer appliance option to correct mild functional problems or as a phase I ortho treatment.
TMJ pain can be quite stressful and ironically often triggered by stress. Overworked and high muscle tension can disrupt the delicate balance between muscle-jaw-teeth, so can grinding and/or clenching . The solution usually involves some initial medication to reduce pain, time for healing and some physical therapy, and prevention via occlusal adjustment and the […]
647 S. Bernardo Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94087
Phone: 408-735-7535
Fax: 408-735-7536
Email: bi@cherrychasedental.com
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