CALABASAS Dental Spa Technologically Advanced Dental Care in a Spa-Like Environment By Elena Richards Photography by Marvin Steindler Calabasas Dental Spa is a unique place where you will find a serene and spa-like cosmetic and laser dentistry practice. The practice takes great satisfaction in helping its patients maintain optimal oral health with the most technologically advanced and minimally invasive procedures available. Calabasas Dental Spa is devoted to holistic dental care, meaning they don’t just treat a patient’s teeth, but they treat the patient as a whole. After your initial diagnostic consultation with the doctor, you’ll have a full range of services available to you, including, but not limited to, teeth cleaning, teeth whitening, veneers, periodontal disease treatment, cosmetic dentistry, laser dentistry, CEREC 3D same-day crowns, oral cancer screenings, infrared diagnostics of cavities and much more. When you come to Calabasas Dental Spa, you can expect a welcoming staff, a guilt-free environment , and the most advanced dental care available. We met with Dr. Baker and asked her a few questions about the different procedures that she uses in her practice and their importance.
WHY IS ORAL CANCER SCREENING IMPORTANT? Oral cancer screening is a very important part of the dental visit for a patient. With the advances in modern technology, we are now
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able to pinpoint the start of a potential problem much earlier than before. The ability to do this is extremely important. We are also able to address any issue prior to it becoming a major, irreversible problem that may become life threatening. Through the process of multi-spectral fluorescence, this technology can dramatically improve our ability to recognize oral cancer and save lives. Annual oral cancer screenings are very important for everyone, especially if you are a smoker or a heavy drinker, so please make sure to get regular screenings when you visit your dentist.
WHAT TYPES OF LASER DENTISTRY DO YOU PROVIDE? At Calabasas Dental Spa, we use the most advanced lasers in dentistry, and we are pleased to offer this state of the art technology to our patients. Laser dentistry allows us to treat many dental conditions in a minimally invasive way. Some of the most common procedures we use are gum treatments and restorations (fillings). The non-Invasive laser gum treatment, called LANAP, can save teeth and actually regrows bone and reverses bone loss. The laser energy not only eliminates the harmful bacteria associated with gum disease, but it also has the added benefits of laser biostimulation, which allows for faster healing of the gums.