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DR. MARK SWEENEY: I was first exposed to digital radiography in 1993. I heard about it. They were giving a course on it and there were only five dentists that showed up because nobody believed it would really work and that it was ready for primetime. At the 10:00 break that morning, I sat down and signed the order for it while the other four dentists stood behind me and watched me fill out the paperwork. It’s been one of […]

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DR. MARK SWEENEY: We have three different lasers in our office. One is used in our hygiene department to diagnose whether there’s decay in the tooth or not by penetrating the tooth with a laser beam and measuring how much tooth bounces back. Totally harmless. Very simple to do. If there’s decay into a tooth inside of a tooth to a degree that it needs to be restored, much of the light gets absorbed and so the digital reading on […]

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DR. MARK SWEENEY: The most exciting technology for me in dentistry right now is CEREC. It had been in the works for 20 years. It was developed by a dentist in Germany who was convinced that CatCam technology could be utilized in dentistry. It took them 20 years to develop the technology to a point where I was ready to utilize it in my office. But when three years ago they developed it to a point where you could make […]

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DR. MARK SWEENEY: I did my last silver filling, metal amalgam filling in 1995 and it opened up a whole new era in dentistry for me to be able to restore a tooth so that when I was done, it looked just like a regular tooth again. I don’t know how I lived with myself all those years of putting big metal fillings. I had them in my own mouth for 25 years, but what we understand now although that […]

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DR. MARK SWEENEY: Another exciting innovation in dentistry is dental implants. I was initially a little worried about them back 20 years ago when they first came out. They were a little Star Warsy for me. Now it’s something that we do everyday of the week. It’s a fairly straight forward thing to take a person with a missing tooth, have an implant placed and then put a restoration over that implant. It looks just like a natural tooth. Dental […]

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DR. MARK SWEENEY: Even on back teeth we can use all ceramic restorations now. There’s really very little need for metal to be involved in dentistry anymore. We almost everyday are making crowns to go on back chewing teeth, on the molars that are all ceramic restorations. The advantage then over porcelain to metal is rather than being cemented into place, they’re actually chemically bonded into place and they’re much more natural looking because they transmit light very similar to […]

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MALE VOICE 3: I had a consultation for porcelain veneers and came in and they did some molds. And then I came back and they fit some plastic veneers on I guess and everything was just like really stress free. It was not painful like I thought it was going to be. So that was pretty cool. I wore those for a couple of weeks, made some adjustments and came back and they did porcelain veneers. And now I have […]

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DR. MARK SWEENEY: When porcelain veneers first came out in the early ‘90s, I was really excited because prior to that, we had had very few options for really giving somebody dramatic change in their smile. Porcelain veneers changed all that. Now we can give somebody virtually the smile of their dreams and it’s a fairly simple process. We image on a computer initially to give the patient a fairly good idea of what it is that we’re trying to […]

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DR. MARK SWEENEY: Zoom whitening is one of the most exciting treatments that we offer at Austin Dental Spa. It allows us in a less than two hour period to give somebody a completely different smile. In many cases, we whiten people 10 shades whiter than they came in with. And it’s really exciting for the patient and for us to make such a change in such a short period of time. It’s painless. Its simple and it has dramatic […]

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DR. MARK SWEENEY: Cosmetic dentistry is one of the most exciting aspects of modern dentistry. With the technology that we have available now days, we can give you the smile of your dreams. Practically anyone can benefit from some form of cosmetic dentistry whether it’s whitening all the way up to a full set of veneers. Every patient has a different goal in cosmetic dentistry. Some people want to look very, very natural. Other people want a full Hollywood smile. […]

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