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How We Use Technology to Boost Your Smile

Duxton Dental • Mar 13, 2019

Care and Innovation from our Christchurch Dentists

We live in a digital age where innovations and advances in technology have made our lives and our ability to work more efficient and productive, and dentistry, like all medical fields, has embraced these advances to improve the procedures, treatments and the results that we provide for our patients.

Here at Duxton Dental clinic Christchurch, we constantly review the technologies that we have available to us, so we can continue to deliver quality dental care to our patients and provide optimum oral health and smile success. While we are passionate about the latest dentistry technology that we use, we appreciate that you may not be as aware of how these advances can benefit you.

Here are some of the ways that technology has transformed the dental services Riccarton patients can access.

Saves your time and money

From your first visit to Duxton Dental as a new patient, through to your regular preventative and treatment appointments, dental technology is used to do everything faster, so that the amount of time you spend in the chair is less. There is no need for multiple impressions to be made, by using our innovative 3 Shape Trios Digital Scanner, we can scan once to get the information that we need to devise the dental plan that you need.

100% accurate

With traditional dentistry techniques the door is open for errors to occur; patients accidentally moving during an x-ray, or a quality failure in the impression material, can mean that scans or messy molds need to be repeated. With our digitized technology, our programs correct any anomalies to provide a precise high-resolution representation of your mouth allowing a quick and accurate diagnosis and tailored dental care treatment plan to achieve the best results.

Digital patient files

Regular scanning of our patients’ mouths enables us to easily monitor the changes to their teeth and oral cavity. This means that we can track your oral health, but also your overall general health , as the two are intrinsically linked. Whether it’s to see the movement of teeth during Invisalign orthodontic treatment, or for early cavity detection, being able to easily access our patient’s dental history is central to providing our patients with superior dental health care. Plus, as our patient, you’ll be able to seehow your treatment is progressing for yourself, you don’t just have to take our word for it!

Responsive dentistry

There are occasions when some of our Christchurch dental clinic patients need an emergency appointment. Reasons are varied, but technology allows us to ensure that many of our patients achieve resolution same day – there’s no temporary fix needed. For example, should you need a replacement crown, we have the Sirona inLab MCXL onsite, which means our dental laboratory can make a replacement immediately without a painful wait for restoration. The video above shows the MCXL milling unit milling a crown in slow motion.

At Duxton Dental, our highly skilled team use the latest technologies to make your dental clinic experience a positive and successful one. Whether you are attending preventative appointments, seeking cosmetic dentistry services to improve your smile or a first-time patient, we use revolutionary innovations to achieve the best long-term results.

For further information, please contact our Riccarton dentists on 03 348 5488 , we look forward to hearing from you.

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