General Dentistry

Dental Health Center of Holmdel is dedicated to providing you with optimal conservative care for your natural teeth.  Restorative or General dental treatments are carefully planned in order to repair the effects of tooth decay, trauma, defect or disease while extending the life of your teeth.

To accomplish this,  DHC’s dentists utilize the latest proven advancement  in state of the art technology, CEREC CAD/CAM, for restorative treatments such as dental implants, dental crowns and onlays and inlays.

What are common general and restorative dental treatments?

Dental Implants

Invisalign Teeth Straightening

Restorative Treatments (Crowns)

Onlays and Inlays

Dental Implants

When you are missing a tooth (or teeth), this can diminish the beauty of your smile, thus activating bone loss and the shifting of your remaining teeth, leading to additional health problems.

Dental implants can change the way you experience life. People benefit from dental implants in ways that transform their sense of comfort and confidence to eat, speak, smile and live with more enjoyment - simple pleasures.

Dental implants are most times your best option to replace missing teeth. They provide a foundation for replacement teeth that look, feel, and function like natural teeth.

Benefits of Dental Implants

• Restore the strength to your bite and the beauty to your smile.
• Help preserve facial structure, preventing the bone deterioration that occurs when teeth are missing.
• Are custom-fabricated to complement your surrounding features to provide the most natural-looking results possible.

Dental Implants Procedure in Four Steps

1. The gum tissue is prepared to expose the bone area where the implant will be placed.  In some cases when there is insufficient bone structure, bone grafting may be required. when there is insufficient bone structure.
2. A drill is used to prepare the bone for the implant
3. The dental implant is fixed to your jaw using a titanium alloy implant or anchor, which integrates with the bone and gums. It can take from three to six months for the gums and bone to completely grow around the anchor of the dental implants – resulting in the permanent hold of the anchor by the bone.
4. The replacement tooth or teeth ("crowns") are fabricated and applied and then fitted to the titanium post. At Dental Health Center of Holmdel, CEREC technology is used to produce a tooth-like, ceramic crown in just one visit, thus eliminating multiple trips to the dentist to accomplish exact fit and comfort.

 What are the advantages of dental implants over dental bridges and crowns?

• Dentures require maintenance, whereas dental implants do not.
• Dental bridges carry a much higher risk of breaking versus dental implants.

 Imagine regaining the ability to eat and smile with confidence, with the knowledge that your teeth will not only appear natural, but that your facial contours will also be preserved!

Invisalign Teeth Straightening

Imagine an attractive way to get a beautiful, healthy smile without traditional braces.

Invisalign is a series of removable, clear plastic aligners, custom made for your teeth to promote teeth straightening. No bands. No brackets. No wires.

Dental Health Center of Holmdel is happy to offer Invisalign as an excellent choice to straighten your teeth and improve your smile without traditional metal braces.  The invisible appearance and marked comfort of Invisalign means most people won’t even notice you are wearing  them – unless you tell them! This unique feature makes Invisalign treatment a great alternative to braces for adults and older teens.

Length of Treatment Required for Invisalign

Invisalign is very easy to use.  Full treatment typically takes less than one year.  You can choose when to wear them and feel free to take them out when you need to.  Your personalized treatment depends on your particular situation and goals as they fit into an Invisalign treatment program.

Invisalign can be used to Treat Several Dental and Orthodontic Issues

Invisalign aligners can work to correct overly crowded teeth, widely spaced teeth, crossbites, and underbites.  The dentists at Dental Center of Holmdel will create a custom-designed Invisalign program to treat your dental or orthodontic issues. 

Invisalign Aligners can Positively Impact your Health

• Signs of periodontal disease, such as swollen gums and redness, can surface due to teeth that are crowded or too widely spaced. When teeth are properly aligned, it helps the gums fit tighter around the teeth, which can lead to better periodontal health. Since the Invisalign system’s greatest advantage is its ability to align teeth, your gum health may improve after Invisalign treatment
• The Invisalign system uses no metal bands, brackets or wires that typically trap food and plaque.  And the removable nature of Invisalign allows you to easily maintain good oral health.  These two beneficial qualities of using Invisalign may also reduce the chance of plaque build-up, decay and periodontal disease.
• Untreated, incorrectly positioned teeth and jaws can lead to speech difficulties and uncomfortable chewing issues.  Invisalign treatment can improve both of these problems by giving you better-aligned teeth and jaws.

Benefits of Invisalign

• We will take precision impressions for customized aligners for your teeth.
• Even before completion of Invisalign treatment, you will notice improvement and start enjoying the many benefits of a better smile.
• The smoothness of Invisalign ensures the comfort of your cheeks and gums.
• Virtually invisible, Invisalign allows for you to straighten your teeth without anyone knowing.
• You can remove Invisalign aligners to eat, drink or to attend special occasions.

Restorative Treatments (Dental Crowns)

Having a great smile comes in part from healthy, attractive teeth.  Cracked, stained or damaged teeth detract from your dental health and your appearance too.  A dental crown is a restoration that covers, or caps a tooth to restore it to its normal shape, appearance and size. Its purpose is to strengthen or improve the appearance of a tooth.   

Crowns can:

• Restore teeth when there isn’t enough tooth remaining to provide support for large fillings
• Attach bridges
• Protect weak teeth from fracturing
• Restore fractured teeth
• Cover badly shaped or discolored teeth
• Cover dental implants

At Dental Health Center of Holmdel, our goal is to create crowns that look like natural teeth, feel comfortable, and are structurally sound.  We are proud to be one of the very few dental practices in New Jersey, and the only one in Colts Neck and Holmdel, to use Cerec CAD/CAM state of the art technology  to produce ceramic, metal-free crowns.  By using the Cerec, restorations are completed in a single appointment.  No impressions, no temporary crowns. 

Onlays and Inlays (Dental Fillings)

In the past, teeth with large areas of tooth decay or cracking and fracturing were remedied with placing a dental crown on a tooth. With today’s state of the art CEREC technology and improved strength of bonding agents, your teeth can be restored with aesthetic, tooth-like inlays or onlays (indirect fillings) in one visit. 

An inlay dental restoration involves the bonding of material (compound or ceramic) within the center of the tooth.   Conversely, an onlay restoration remedies damage encompassing one or more cusps (points) of the tooth or complete coverage of the biting surface (damage on the tooth).

Benefits of Onlay and Inlay Restorations

• The use of inlays and onlays is a conservative treatment to preserve the natural structure and health of your teeth, requiring less tooth reduction than that of metal fillings.
• Unlike metal fillings, inlays and onlays will not expand or contract with temperature changes caused by hot and cold foods. This change in size can cause teeth to weaken or fracture.
• Onlays and inlays provide protection from further tooth decay.
• Onlays and inlays eliminate tooth sensitivity.
• Inlays and onlays help to strengthen teeth.
• The durable ceramic material from which inlays and onlays are made helps them last much longer than that of conventional metal fillings.
• Inlays and onlays can replace silver fillings to create a healthier, more natural-looking smile.

At Dental Health Center of Holmdel, the use of cerec technology as well as the advanced skills of our dentists, make onlay and inlay restorations possible in one visit.