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Our News Read about the latest happenings at Library Park Dental. Dr. Wendy Crowe-Haugstad
• The Airbrator • Invisalign
• Diagnodent Laser
We would like to welcome our new associate, Dr. Wendy Crowe-Haugstad, to our practice. She will be joining us in September right after Labor Day. She will provide the same mindful, quality care that you have come to know and expect from Dr. Chiappetta and the team at Library Park Dental. Esthetic dentistry is her specialty. Dr. Crowe-Haugstad, originally from Dundee, Illinois, earned her degree at the University of Iowa, School of Dentistry in 1990. She then started her own practice, Peacock Dental, in Elgin, Illinois and in 1998 brought in an associate. Dr. Crowe-Haugstad sold the practice to her associate and will be joining us soon. Dr. Wendy Crowe-Haugstad is married to her husband Bradley. They have two children, a boy who is three and a little girl, just one year old. She and her family own a cabin in Wisconsin where they spend family time together as often as possible. Dr. Crowe-Haugstad has many interests, including gardening, gourmet cooking, and photography. She is also an eclectic artist in several mediums. Be sure you say ‘hello’ when you’re at the practice and welcome her to the area. Dr. Crowe-Haugstad is looking forward to meeting all of our patients and getting to know you.
The Airbrator - Increased Safety, Comfort, Health, Esthetics To further enhance your dental experience, Library Park Dental is raising the bar again with the new, air abrasion airbrators. Airbrators are small nozzles that attach to the end of our no-drill,compressed air instrument. There are three separate nozzle designs each suited for specific treatments.
We use air abrasion as much as possible because of its clinical/esthetic results and increased patient comfort. Find out more about the air abrasion/no-drill method in Our Technology.
A Greater, Straighter Smile with Invisalign We can help you attain a great, straight smile
without anyone knowing you are adjusting your teeth. You wear custom-made, clear, removable aligners, which allow you to eat and drink without restrictions and to floss and brush regularly. You replace the aligner about every two weeks and return to see us about every six weeks. Your teeth will move little by little each week and in about 9 to 15 months you will be enjoying a more confident and straighter smile.
Early Detection Disease - Diagnodent Laser We are now able to catch decay sooner, making it possible to save more of your tooth. To accomplish this, we employ a new, advanced technology for detecting cavities - The Diagnodent laser. Previously, we couldn’t repair decay until it could be seen visibly or with X-rays. Now, we are able to find lesions when they are very small and often restore them more comfortably without numbing anesthetic. We shine Diagdnodent's laser light onto one of your healthy teeth to get a baseline reading. Signals are displayed on a screen for us to read. As we continue to shine the laser around your mouth, it presents us with distinctive digital' indicators' when it comes into contact with a surface that is different from the baseline reading. These indicators show up on the monitor, pointing us to the problem areas. Your exam is easy, quick, precise and painless.
A New Smile Preview Digital Camera We know that information is vital to making educated decisions. We also understand that knowing what your smile will look like after treatment gives you greater confidence in your choices. For this reason we use a digital camera to record your smile health and transformation. We take pictures of you and display them on a computer screen so you can see your mouth as we see it. Then we make changes on the screen so you can see the possibilities before you need to decide to proceed with our treatment recommendations. This also enables us to make photo documentation a part of your patient records. The records will be there for both of us to refer to again and again as we proceed with your dental enhancements.
In addition to smile imaging, we use a three-dimensional, lifelike smile model so you can visualize the results of your smile enhancements. More importantly, it is also a three-dimensional communication device. The Master Diagnostic Model (MDM ) assures that you, the dental lab and our team fully understand the recommended restorative and /or esthetic treatments. We create a preliminary model of your mouth and explain the necessary restorations. We then send this model, along with photos and other diagnostic data to the dental lab where they construct an MDM. It will depict how your smile would look after our recommendations have been realized. This 'lifelike preview' makes it easy to understand what your needs are in order to obtain optimum function, beauty and health.
We have significantly improved our in-office smile whitening methods. Now you can enjoy a whiter smile in about an hour with a therapy called Zoom! This is a light activated system designed with your comfort and safety in mind. First we apply a whitening gel to your teeth. Then, after providing you with protective eyewear, we align your mouth with a compact, full-mouth exposure lamp that produces an almost unnoticeable heat. We can achieve a considerable whitening change (a 4 or 5-shade difference) in one sitting. This is whitening that lasts! You can proceed to your next engagement, event or activity with a brighter smile.
We now use an extraordinary esthetic material for crafting youthful-looking and resilient front teeth restorations. This is the type of dentistry you should expect in the 21st century. Dr. Chiappetta completed an extensive hands-on course with Dr. Newton Fahl, a Brazilian dentist who is an internationally renowned speaker and dental clinician. There he learned to make nature-mimicking structural and color enhancements with composite veneers. You can now have longer lasting rejuvenated smile results with our advanced methods of dental care.
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