Treatment Procedures

Orthognathic surgery (jaw surgery)

Most patients visiting dentists with complaints of overcrowding, poor alignment of teeth or severe proclination of front teeth can be addressed with only orthodontic treatments, these patients are said to have dental malocclusion. Whereas some of these cosmetic and functional problems will need surgical intervention in its management along with orthodontics. As the underlying problem is both dental and skeletal discrepancy just attempting orthodontic treatment as a camouflage may not produce satisfactory and stable results.

Performing Orthognathic surgeries to correct skeletal discrepancies will definitely give elegant cosmetic and functional results that provide long term stability. Almost every patient who needs surgical correction may require pre-surgical orthodontic teeth alignment for better results and long term success. Hence at Moorthy dental we work as a multi disciplinary team including both Orthodontists and surgeons right from Treatment Planning to Treatment Execution.

Some of the common Skeletal discrepencies that needs surgical correction include

1.Facial asymmetry
2.Short face/long face
3.Open bite malocclusion
4.Post traumatic deformity correction
5.Sleep apnoea
6.Temporomandibular joint disorders

The World’s most efficient and effective way to straighten teeth!

Each Patient is Different

The Individual Patient (IP) Appliance® was the first customized appliance system in the world and is an enhanced straight archwire technique. In the current standard in orthodontics, dentists use “straight archwire” appliances with one bracket design and one archwire for all patients, which is not always sufficient to treat all tooth movements. However, the IP Appliance® revolutionized orthodontics by allowing doctors to customize the optimal appliance for each patient.

This customization results in faster, more consistent treatment results. Tens of thousands of successful cases from all over the world have already proven that this is the most efficient way to straighten your teeth, the next generation of orthodontics.

WHY INDIVIDUAL ORTHODONTICS?

Your dentist uses the most advanced orthodontic tools, to provide you with the highest levels of orthodontic treatment. Instead of a “one size fits all” approach used in typical straight wire appliances, your dentist customizes your braces and wires. Since the braces have been specifically made for you, faster and more effective treatment can be expected.

• Customized — IP Orthodontics gives dentists 10 times more bracket and archwire designs to choose from, creating a treatment-specific set of braces. Each tooth is diagnosed to find the best bracket for the intended direction of tooth movement. Your braces will be designed and made for you.
• Faster Treatment — Treatment with the IP Appliance® has been shown to be at least 6 months faster than the current straight archwire appliance treatment. Since treatment time varies significantly by severity, age and anatomy, speak with your dentist to get a better projection on your treatment time.
• Fewer Treatment Visits — Due to the use of long-acting materials and the reduced need to make archwire corrections, intervals between visits can be extended. This means less travel and time in the dentists’ chair, with better results.
• More Comfort — Since your braces and wires are customized to you, you have less wire changes, pain and irritation.
• Better Smiles — IP Orthodontics’ diagnosis compensates for unwanted tooth movements. Computer aided diagnosis accurately predicts your teeth’s path to its final position, shortening your treatment time and reducing unexpected tooth movements.
• Improved Retention — Retention has improved significantly by straightening the teeth more effectively, earlier in treatment. Customized brackets specific to each tooth’s rotation are applied to fully straighten your teeth. Since your dentist does not need to make as many archwire compensations throughout the treatment, your teeth are straightened to their final positions earlier and have improved capacity to retain in that position.

Dr.Gayathri: Graduate of The Dawson Academy

Unlike most dentists, Dr.Gayathri and Team at Moorthy Dental Clinic, practice the Concept of Complete Dentistry, which emphasizes a comprehensive, individualized approach to a patient’s dental care, beginning with prevention and early intervention. Contrary to what you might think, this doesn’t mean drill and fill every tooth.

Rather, the Complete Dentistry that We practice requires an understanding of every structural part of your chewing system, including your jaw joints, facial and temporal muscles, and teeth. In the long run, this could save you from years of pain, suffering and extensive costs for multiple and repeated dental work.

Analyzing the 10 structural and functional factors in the chewing system is the basis for every new patient examination so that We can properly diagnose and treat not only obvious problems, but also those that haven’t even shown signs yet!

Did you know that most dental problems are not painful at first, but can be identified by a trained dentist before any symptoms or damage occur?

As a graduate of The Dawson Academy, Dr. Gayathri is one of only 1% of dentists in the country who practices the Concept of Complete Dentistry. She can identify the signs of problems before any symptoms or damage occurs, which means you can receive treatments in a more conservative and less costly manner.

About The Dawson Academy

Just like most professions, there’s a range of skill levels among dentists based on type of advanced education, training, and philosophy of patient care. The Dawson Academy is an advanced dental education facility where dentists teach dentists to be better dentists. Founded by Dr. Peter Dawson, The Dawson Academy teaches the Concept of Complete Dentistry. Although more time consuming for dental practices, Complete Dentistry results in more consistent, predictable and healthy outcomes for your oral health.

Dr. Dawson is one of the most respected and honored dentists in the history of dentistry. With a passion for teaching dentists to do it “right”, he developed the Concept of Complete Dentistry to provide patients with healthy, beautiful smiles that would function properly and serve them comfortably for the rest of their lives. With two best-selling books on the Concept of Complete Dentistry, Dr. Dawson has influenced tens of thousands of dentists to pursue a better outcome for their patients.

WHAT ARE DENTAL IMPLANT ?

Dental Implants are manmade artificial roots for teeth which are used in the process of teeth replacement. Dental Implant serves as a foundation for dental crowns without affecting adjacent healthy teeth. Implants mimic very close to natural teeth .Dental Implant have been accepted by dental professionals for over 40 years as a successful and trusted method of teeth replacement.

Why Moorthy Dental for implants ?

Moorthy Dental is a pioneer in the field of implant dentistry in Madurai. We follow a multifaceted approach for diagnosing partial and complete edentulism utilizing latest technologies like digital radiographs, cone beam CT Scans , study models and radiographic guides for proper planning of treatment that well suits patients needs. We use multiple implant systems like Nobel Bio care, Neo Biotech, Hi tech, MIS, Alpha Bio based on patients needs and desire.

Restore your life with Modern Dental Technology, Ask How?

Implants are not meant for just replacing single missing teeth, invariably they are for giving you wholesome comfort to you. That is, if you have been struggling to talk ,eat or smile with self confidence using old fashioned complete dentures, implants can offer you solutions that can dramatically change your lifestyle giving you complete comfort allowing you to live a life with confidence and totally an improved quality of life

Attractive healthy teeth are important for our general health and well being .It makes us to look and feel confident and interact with family members and friends with ease. Missing teeth has a strong impact on our quality of life .It not just gets over with esthetic or functional problems it has a deep rooted psychological effect on our well being. Missing teeth causes physical changes to our face as jaw bone shrinks in the absence of teeth or by using loose fitting dentures.

How will be my Implant procedure happen?

At Moorthy dental patients undergo a complete evaluation of their general medical conditions such as Diabetis, hypertension ,osteoporosis initially. Patients are educated about the need to maintain proper oral hygiene before starting treatment with implants. A comprehensive evaluation of the patients requirements and the clinical situations are analysed .A proper treatment plan is made that well suits the patients needs and desires. Procedure is executed under stringent aseptic conditions as atraumatic as possible.

Zygoma Implants

If you are a person struggling with unsecured dentures in an old fashioned way, we are here to offer you with fixed implant supported dentures to make your life after loss of natural teeth to regain its comfort and give back your confidence. However many a times patients who have been missing teeth for a very long time may not have adequate jaw bone to retain implants .Earlier days extensive bone grafting procedures such as hip bone grafting were done to improve bone quantity in such patients. Such procedures were considered very invasive, traumatic and time consuming. Modern technological advancements such as zygoma implants have completely revolutionised the possibility of giving fixed teeth even for patients who do not have adequate jaw bone. They are graft less implant solutions where long implants are inserted into adjacent zygomatic bone to achieve increased support for fixed artificial teeth.

The advantage of zygoma implants being:
1. Quick solutions as early as within 72hrs
2. Graft less implant solutions
3. Improved quality of life making people live life to their fullest.

Teeth whitening or bleaching is a simple painless procedure undertaken to achieve whiter and brighter teeth. Professional Dental bleaching is done by applying a gel onto the surface of the teeth that needs to be brightened. It is performed as an in office procedure followed by applying a special light source that activates the bleaching gel and produces brighter teeth. The same procedure can also be undertaken as a Home Procedure where we provide our patients with trays that can be used to apply the bleaching gel onto the teeth.

Teeth whitening are suitable for discoloured teeth caused by smoking, food colorants, and flurosis congenital enamel defects. Dental bleaching helps us in improving brightness of teeth by two shades lighter than before.

At Moorthy Dental we strongly believe the best way for good oral health is to follow proper preventive measures. We try to be as conservative as possible in making the right treatment plan for our patients. Great importance is given to protect our natural teeth by all possible measures and treatment modalities.

Pit and fissure sealants are particularly important for newly erupted permanent molars and deciduous teeth .It is a simple procedure where cement is applied onto the deep pits and fissures on the occlusal aspects of teeth preventing teeth decay. These are simple procedures of great preventive benefit to patients.

When the supporting structures of teeth that are described as periodontal ligament gets affected by disease process teeth start becoming mobile and shaking. Mobile teeth are difficult to chew with and are painful during function.

Splinting is a procedure that helps to prolong the life of mobile teeth for a specific period of time. At Moorthy Dental we utilize superior quality splinting products like Ivoclar Vivadent ,Gc Everstick for this purpose.

Patients with complex dental problems require multimodality dental treatments involving various dental specialities. At Moorthy dental pioneers from all fields such as Root canal therapy, Dental Implants, Prosthodontics, Orthodontics work together to achieve comprehensive solutions for full mouth rehabilitation.

Dental Laboratory support which is an essential part of such procedures is well understood and we have qualified technicians working at our place to achieve best results.

We also take support from world class dental labs such as Dentcare dental lab (www.dentcaredental.com) that provides complete lab support in giving our patients a variety of treatment options that are not anything less than the best.

We also undertake such procedures under sedation for better comfort. we are well equipped in handling complex situations and keep ourselves updated with the latest developments in the field such as digital smile designing .we take extreme care in making our patients satisfied with what they want and in the process we utilize best of recourses such as Face bows, SAM articulators, Smile lite etc for best results.

Wisdom teeth are third molars those that erupt beyond 18yrs of age .wisdom teeth may not completely erupt or partially erupt in a certain group of the population. Such partially or unerupted teeth are described as impacted teeth causing many problems such as infection, bad breath, TMJ problems and dental crowding and so on.

Removal of such offending wisdom teeth relieves patients from such problems. Early removal is recommended to avoid the development of dental caries in such impacted molars or adjacent teeth to avoid future problems.

We also take support from world class dental labs such as Dentcare dental lab (www.dentcaredental.com) that provides complete lab support in giving our patients a variety of treatment options that are not anything less than the best.

At Moorthy Dental Impacted teeth are properly evaluated using digital panaromic radiographs and surgical removal undertaken following stringent aseptic protocols.

Gum treatment includes professional teeth cleaning and hygiene services which are recommended every 6 months to remove deposits that tend to build up on teeth over time .Scaling helps to reduce gingival inflammation that occurs as a result of constant irritation from plaque and calculus deposits that form on the surface of teeth. Patients with bleeding gums, halitosis and mobile teeth may at times need to undergo surgical procedures that are described as Flap surgery or curettage to arrest the disease process and improve periodontal health.

Maintaining periodontal health is important for diabetic patient’s pregnant women and cardiac patients as there is enough evidence to show poor periodontal status has direct effect on cardiac status, uncontrolled diabetes and low birth weight babies.

As a part of our advanced dental treatments for improved esthetics we undertake digital smile designing procedures with help of advanced software tools and gadgets such as smile lite.

What is digital smile designing?

Digital Smile Designing is an advanced way of dental and facial care where the perfect smile of our patients is undertaken following an intuitive and guided process that allows our patients to have a preview of their smile esthetics. This helps us in deciding the suitable treatment for our patients to get the best smile design possible.

Our fully specialised Moorthy Kids Dentistry is designed to provide children the perfect ambience to keep them comfortable during all dental procedures .Our highly specialized paediatric dentist will help you in maintaining your Childs oral health with utmost care and concern.

With increased emphasis on preventive dentistry we also undertake advanced paediatric procedures such as pulpectomy and SS crowns and space maintainers that are important for your kids. We also undertake dental procedures under sedation and anaesthesia with proper safety measures for the comfort of our junior patients.

Restorative services include a wide array of procedures such as teeth fillings which are undertaken utilizing high quality materials such as Ivoclar vivadent , GC Europe and 3M products.

Teeth coloured restoration utilizing the last generation hybrid, nano composite materials are undertaken with maximum care. We strongly believe in being conservative, in our treatment approaches whenever possible and also utilize all possible preventive measures for the betterment of our patient’s oral health.

A dental crown is a type of dental substitute which completely covers or encircles a tooth or a dental implant .Crowns are often used as a restorative option for badly broken teeth ,Root canal treated teeth or as Implant restorations. Crowns often provide improved strength and appearance to natural teeth.

Crown are be made of many different such as full metal crowns, Porcelain fused metal crowns, or metal free Zirconia crowns. Generally these crowns are fabricated in a dental model made out of an impression taken from patient’s mouth in a dental laboratory. Porcelein which is commonly used in making crowns is a type of ceramic that is built by stacking and firing followed by glazing and polishing. Metal free zirconia crowns that are best in strength and cosmetically superior resemble natural teeth in every way so that one cannot differentiate them from natural teeth. Your teeth will look so perfect that you will be smiling in your sleep.

Root canal treatment is a modern day procedure that is performed for teeth that are infected, painful fractured or sensitive to hot and cold foods. Root canal treatment is not painful as presumed by many It is a procedure that is performed to relieve pain. During root canal procedure the tooth is anaesthetized and the inflamed pulp tissue is removed step by step carefully using rotary tools and the root canals disinfected and filled with an inert material calkled gutta-percha.It is always important to restore a root canal treated teeth with crowns or fillings for protection. At the Moorthy Dental Clinic root canal treatment are performed by specialized endodontist with high training and skill to perform these procedures.

TMJ is a unique joint in our face that makes our lower jaw to open and close our mouth. The Temporomandibular joint needs to function in harmony with all related structures such as the muscles of mastication and teeth that are responsible for proper functioning of our joint. The jaw joint should remain in a comfortable seated position when the teeth have maximal contact. When teeth comes into maximal contact If the TMJ is shifted from its comfortable seated position patients develop joint disorders, myofacial pain and broken teeth.

Headaches, Neck pain, shoulder pain, ear pain, vertigo can all result from disharmonious jaw joint and inappropriate occlusion of teeth.

At Moorthy dental we undertake a specialized assessment for patients suffering from TMJ problems who are many times unaware of their existing TMJ disorders.

Comprehensive dentistry is a super specialized work that includes a complete examination and treatment for the complete system including the jaw (TMJ) joint, muscles of mastication and teeth.

Comprehensive dentistry includes advanced procedures such as TMJ splint therapy, selective grinding of teeth, permanent restorative work, Orthodontic tooth movement all of which are targeted to get the teeth and TMJ into harmonious relationship.

We make use of advanced equipments such as face bows, semi adjustable articulators (AmmanGirbach) for such treatments. Extensive Lab support is provided by our own technicians and leading labs such as Dent care dental lab.

In todays world artificial teeth can be made as close to natural teeth as possible with use of modern technology. At Moorthy Dental, we undertake teeth replacement procedures on par with western standards. Fixed artificial teeth ranging from single crowns ,crown and bridges and implant supported full mouth rehabilitation are undertaken with all suitable precautions.

Bone grafting is a minor surgical procedure that is undertaken as an adjunct procedure before dental implants to make the restorative site suitable for teeth replacement.

Advanced procedures such as Sinus bone grafting are undertaken with great care and quality bone grafting materials.

Laser dentistry is one of the most innovative tools that is used at Moorthy Dental Clinic for patients who are highly apprehensive and fear for needles and drills.

Laser dentistry gives much faster and comfortable results without much delay in dental treatments. Biolase a soft tissue diode laser that we use at our practice is the most advanced dental laser units available in the world.

We routinely use the laser for soft tissue procedures replacing scalpels and incisions allowing pain free and more controlled healing response. We routinely undertake laser surgical procedures such as correction of Gummy smiles, frenectomies crown lengthening for restorative procedures towards better outcome.Laser has become a routine part of our armamentarium in Implant surgical procedure.

Advanced procedures such as Sinus bone grafting are undertaken with great care and quality bone grafting materials.