Computer Imaging for Cosmetics
You can actually see the possibilities of a new and improved smile, simply and quickly, before treatment and right at your initial consultation visit at no additional charge. Our computer imaging system uses a color video camera to capture a natural color close-up image and displays it on a TV screen. A split screen enables you to view two images, one of which is altered, in order to see before and after phases of treatment. We can close spaces, lighten teeth, eliminate stains, reshape teeth, and even insert other teeth or smiles onto the image. Take advantage of this opportunity to explore various treatment options with our team of doctors and take home a before-and-after photograph for your friends and family to see!
Intraoral Camera
Our intraoral camera provides a color view of any part of your mouth on a television screen. It magnifies 10 to 28 times the actual size to view fractures and other details on teeth not visible through oral examinations or x-rays. A split screen enables comparison of different areas of the mouth, and images may be frozen to provide a before-and-after look at treatment. We can print pictures on our electronic color thermal printer to keep as part of your records, for you to take home, or for your insurance company, if necessary.
Digital Radiography (X-rays)
In digital radiography, special phosphor plates or electronic sensors (rather than film) are scanned into or connected directly to advanced computer software to capture and store x-ray images. Not only does this produce enhanced computer images, but also it does so with just a fraction of the radiation of conventional x-rays.
Advantages:
- Reduces radiation by 50 to 90 percent
- Environmentally safe — no chemicals used and no need for waste disposal
- Provides more flexibility and patient comfort than film
- Better organization of patients’ x-ray records
Panoramic X-Ray
Panoramic x-rays are quite useful in providing an overview of the mouth, including all teeth, jawbones, sinuses, and the temporo-mandibular joint. They are especially helpful in seeing impacted wisdom teeth, evaluating TMJ and implants, and even showing details that may not present in basic film. Patients benefit from a significant reduction in radiation levels, as well as the comfort and convenience of not having to place film in the mouth.
Caesy Interactive
Caesy is our patient education system that acts as a virtual teacher to the patient and is completely interactive. With the push of a remote control button, this DVD provides information on all procedures performed in our offices, covering everything from dental materials used to post operative instructions for the patient. The more you understand your mouth, the better able you are to maintain your dental health. The answers are all at your fingertips!
Cable TV
All three offices are furnished with televisions to make your dental experiences as relaxing and comfortable as possible. We also have VCRs and movie collections to further widen your viewing selection. Our River Edge, Nutley, and Wanaque offices offer the luxury of 99 cable channels in every treatment room.
Our Office Is Fully Computerized
All of our treatment rooms have Internet access, instant access to patient information, patient x-rays, and appointment information.
DioDent™ Soft Tissue Laser
The DioDent™ soft tissue laser treats the soft tissue of the lips and mouth (gums, mucosa of the cheeks and lips, the tongue, and the floor of the mouth).
Advantages:
- Shorter treatment and healing time
- Often eliminates need for anesthetic injection (topical anesthetic used)
- No need for sutures
- No scarring
- Reduces or eliminates bleeding and postoperative pain
- Definitive treatment for ulcers in the mouth
DIAGNOdent®
This laser device finds cavities earlier, painlessly, and more accurately. This small portable handheld laser device easily and more objectively diagnoses decay in teeth by comparing reflection wavelength against a known healthy baseline wavelength to uncover decay.
Advantages:
- Allows for early detection and therefore smaller conservative fillings
- More precise in diagnosing cavities
- Painlessly uses light to test for cavities as opposed to sharp instrumentation
- More accurate than visual examination
Fiber Optic Handpieces
These advanced design handpieces offer:
- Fiber optic lighting for better visibility
- Flexibility; less tiring for operator
- Quietest handpiece provides greater patient comfort
- Less vibration
- 4-port water spray provides greater cooling and excellent visibility
Vident VITA Easyshade®
The VITA Easyshade® intraoral dental spectrophotometer is a tooth shade matching system that uses a spectrometer to check the actual shades of your teeth to ensure that a cosmetically accurate restoration is produced by the dental laboratory.
Intraligamentary Anesthesia
No Pain, All Gain:
Painless Anesthesia with No Lingering Numbness!
When a patient requires treatment of a single tooth, it seems a pity to make the whole side of the face, lips and tongue numb. A special technique; intraligamentary anesthesia, avoids that. It can specifically anesthetize one tooth. In addition, it is usually so smooth that the patient rarely or barely feels the injection.
“It was great! My tooth was numb in less than a minute and yet the rest of my mouth felt normal!”
Intraligamentary anesthesia, a technique obscure to most people, yet used at Feiler Dental Associates for years, administers a small amount of anesthetic directly to a space between the tooth and the gums called the periodontal ligament, rather than through the gum tissue as is normally done. Because it is so direct, we are not anesthetizing the rest of the nerves in that area, only the specific branch for that tooth.
“I really didn't believe it would be painless — but other than some pressure for a couple of seconds, I didn't feel any pain”
The advantages are:
- No lingering numbness; patients can eat, speak and function normally upon leaving the office.
- It takes effect immediately
- It is especially excellent for the patient who has difficulty getting numb
- It used only a fraction of the anesthetic drug
- It can void uncomfortable injections in the roof of the mouth. We usually do not like to numb both sides of the mouth in one visit, especially in the lower jaw.
- Both sides can be treated at once, avoiding additional visits.
- In children intraligamentary injection is fantastic, avoiding that strange feeling of putting the face to sleep. Even extractions of baby teeth can be an easy experience.
“I had lunch right away afterwards, without that numb feeling”
STA (Single Tooth Anesthesia) System: "The Wand"
The STA system is a combination of precision tools and computer software that controls the amount of anesthesia that enters a targeted branch of nerves. This vastly improves anesthesia effectiveness and overall patient experience, minimizes gum tissue reaction, and decreases the likelihood of post-operation complications. Allowing the computer software to control the flow of anesthesia, there is less pressure and pain felt by the patient because accurate amounts of chemical and pressure is injected into the desired area. This type of injection only takes 1-2 minutes, is non-stressful, and has less or no anxiety when compared to the intraligamentary anesthesia technique. Our patients have never been so stress free on a big operation!
