Clear Correct at The Gentle Dentist in Shelby Township, Michigan

February 3, 2012 by · Leave a Comment


Hi, this is Dr. Antolak from thegentledentist.com in Shelby Township Michigan, (586) 247-3500 is our phone number. What things do people mostly want to see when they have their smile? They want to show bright white straight teeth. And what happens when people don’t have bright white straight teeth? Well, they want to get them straightened out and whitened.  Well we can do the whitening through a number of different options. But one of the ways that we’ve found that works really well in our office, in my hands, is something called ClearCorrect. ClearCorrect is an aligner, just like Invisalign is an aligner and this aligner in ClearCorrect is great because what it does is it gives us a little bit more versatility than the Invisalign product does, it also is a bit more reasonably priced and so we can pass that savings on to our patients. In fact I am using one right now as I’m speaking and it looks like this.

What it is- it goes in the, in the mouth, in the teeth and it moves the teeth, it’s made by care designs. So it’s made where you can actually see each step of the way, it actually moves the teeth so you put a new one every 3 weeks and when you put it in you feel a lot of tightness for a day or so and then it slowly goes away and the teeth moves a little bit and every 3 weeks you put in a new one. Can you put this back and.

So it’s that easy to put it back in, people don’t notice. So the way that, the differences between Clear Correct and Invasalign is that with Clear Correct the brace itself, the aligner is actually clearer than other aligners. This is according to their literature they have. But in my hands, it also handles better too.  Also it does able to control what happens with the teeth. For ClearCorrect they actually send, which is pretty neat they send their little templates that are made. They make a model and so then if you for example, lose them you can come in, we can make another alignment for you right here as you lose, if you lost it then you can do it. And, there is no additional charge for that up to a couple of aligners if you do misplace those or lose them.

The other thing is that, that since we do it remove the teeth actually a little bit slower, so is actually the end result is predictable, and the nice thing is because it’s shaped like a lightning tray, we can use those also at the final end product to, to whiten your teeth up. So there are many different advantages to Clear Correct. And it’s something that we use in our office and we use it mighty effectively to move teeth without braces, just like the Invisalign does. And it’s a more beneficial product. They’re a little bit easier for us to work with as dentists than the Invisalign product. So if you’re having any questions about your crooked teeth or if your teeth are crooked and you don’t like what they look like give us a call because sometimes there’s something that we can do about it.

If this sounds like something you are interested in, please give us a call. 586-247-3500

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Dr. Antolak from Shelby Township, Michigan Discussing Crowns

February 2, 2012 by · Leave a Comment


Hi, this is Dr. Antolak from thegentledentist.com. We’re in Shelby Township, Michigan. (586)247-3500 is our phone number. Today I want to talk to you about dental crowns and specifically cosmetic all porcelain dental crowns verses porcelain fused metal crowns.  When you look at somebody in the front and they’re smiling and you see a gray line around the edge of the gums, it’s not so sight, it’s kind of unsightly and the reason why that is because porcelain crowns allow light to show through and what you’re looking at, the grayness at the gum line or, a dark line is a porcelain infused development.

Now, porcelain fused to metal crowns were the standard years ago. But nowadays, with no new current technologies, we’re mostly doing actually all porcelain crowns. Not only for the cosmetic benefits of having a beautiful smile with, with cosmetic with all porcelain. But also because they now are stronger than they ever have been. What I’d like to do is just demonstrate to you a couple things. I have here a light and then that light is showing.  If you can see that, it’s showing through a porcelain fused to gold crown. This is a porcelain fused to gold crown and there is actually porcelain that’s baked on the outside on the outside of a tooth and then there is gold that’s ore metal that’s on the inside and that does give it the strength it needs. Now, the problem is, is that they actually and the actual teeth, and the actual teeth allow light to show straight through them. So for example, on this all porcelain one that I have you and see that there is light that is allowed to emit right through that and when light is allowed to be emitted right through the tooth, what it does is give it a natural appearance, just like a natural tooth. A natural tooth there is no metal in it of course, and it allows light to penetrate through it, just like I demonstrated to you with the all porcelain ones. The reason why it looks dark underneath it is it may have a band of metal that’s at the gum line but also

There’s no light allowed to be emitted to the root of the tooth. And so you’re basically looking at a shadow that’s coming into the root structure of the tooth.

Now many, many times I have patients who have come in and asked me, why is my gum line looks so dark there at the, at the top and so when I smile, I don’t like when I smile because I see how that looks and, and the tooth looks a little unnatural, because the naturalness of it comes from the fact that it’s level and we have to, they have to put an opaquer on there like a real whitener that blacks out the metal look from the porcelain. And then they have to make it look natural. So rather than lighting emitting through the tooth on a natural tooth or an all porcelain crown.

Like it’s trapped inside and when you’re looking at a porcelain crown.  Light only goes up to that one specific spot where the crown is, where the opaquer is, and light reflects back off of it. That’s what not, does, that’s what gives it the unnatural look to a porcelain, I mean a porcelain to metal crown.

So, if you’d like more clarification on that, or if you don’t like the way that your smile is, or if you have issues that you have at the gum line that seem to be really an irritant. Or, you know, you may have had someone who’s noticed that. Or you just don’t feel comfortable smiling, please give us a call, you know? We’ll provide for you a free consultation, just to take a look and see what you have going on there with your teeth and if it’s a crown what we can do to change that and make teeth look beautiful again. Thank you and this is Doctor Antolak from TheGentleDentist.com.

Have a blessed day.

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Making Our Patients Comfortable at The Gentle Dentist- Michigan

February 1, 2012 by · Leave a Comment


Hi, this is Doctor Antolak at TheGentleDentist.com in Shelby Township, Michigan. 586-247-3500 is our phone number.  We try to really excel everything that we do here in our office.  And one of the things that we really try to excel in is our patient’s comfort. Not only are we good at giving local anesthetic.

Listening to our patients needs that type of thing. We also want to, the amenities that we try to provide are sooner the other things too. So that the people when they, they come here to the office they feel comfortable. If they have needs, I will pray over them, provide that level of support and well they are here to is to try do some things help relax, survive. One of the ways we do it is through really neat technique and that’s using the device that I am holding up here, actually have these for sale, and this is called hideout.

And what it does is it is an Atenge unit, which helps to create electrical stimulation in muscles, in different muscle groups, that creates relaxation and it creates release of tension as if it were being done physically. It’s done thru electronics and thru little electrical impulses. And let me show you how that works. This unit is small which is really nice thing. A lot of times people had Atenge units that are large, but this very small. And what it does is if you can actually plug into your computer charge up or into a wall, to charge up and has 6 different setting each setting one might feel like um like it’s a ball rolling around and some is might feel like it’s squeezing your hands and we have these leads that go on your, your bare skin and these leads are the things that provide the electrical stimulation and this unit has the ability to do two separate leads. So you can be massaging your back and massaging your lower back and massaging your neck at the same time which is really nice thing.

For me personally earlier this summer I was using this on a trip to where I was in Washington, DC with my family and there was a lot of walking around and my lower back was giving me some issues.  So I just put this on, on the lower part of my back as I’m walking around the museums and I’m literally getting charged through the whole time I’m going through these museums and I just had this in my pocket.

It lasted all day if you can believe it and it provided really relief for me during that time, included with this set up that we have is, this is the battery charger that it comes with it and plugs right in the very end. It plugs in to these USB cable and it gets, it has a couple of different leads and then some, some different wires that go with it too. But the beauty is, this device here, and this has the acupuncture pressure points through the, through Chinese pressure points. And so each area here is like a meridian.

And in these meridians, these are little points that you can apply for different purposes. On the backside of this manual it has in English, it actually has where, what area if you’re having discomfort in a certain area and you go back and you reference back onto here, and if you can reference back on to here it provides really good relaxation for different parts of muscle groups. One thing that we do here at our office is if someone has some temperamented joint pain or problems in the jaw joint. What we’ll do is we’ll actually apply these leads to the, the hands, like about, right here.

And where it’s applied, like right here, it creates, and don’t ask me how it works, but it’s, you know, through thousands of years the Chinese have perfected this. It’ll create relaxation in the whole muscles and the tightness of the face. There’s also some areas where you can place it on these muscle groups here, on the temporalis area  but you, you have to be, you know, use it on a very low setting for that purpose. It’s very safe. It’s very effective, and the nice part is that this device is rechargeable and it’s very portable. At our office we sell these for 185 and just thinking about going to massage therapist for a couple of hours, 2-3 hours would be about the same amount of soap. This can be something that will provide long lasting comfort for you.

So, if there’s any questions, you can call our office at (586) 247-3500, and visit our website too at thegentledentist.com. Thank you.

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