Comprehensive and preventive Family and Child Dentistry
Children have different dental care needs than adults, and parents should make sure that their children see a pediatric dentist around the age of one. Family dentistry practices feature dental care services for both children and adults, conveniently treating the entire family at the same practice.
Our team offers family dentistry services, including oral surgery and orthodontics for both children and adults.
Children require specialized dental care to ensure their oral health for years to come. One of the key elements of children’s dental care involves empowering your child with the right oral hygiene education and access to preventive pedodontic care to avoid problems before they arise.
Our areas of expertise include:
- Comprehensive and preventive dental care
- Oral hygiene instructions
- Preventive sealants
- Orthodontic (braces) referrals
- Digital X-rays (70-90% less radiation exposure)
- State-of-the-art computerized patient records
- Composite resin (white/tooth colored) fillings
- Nitrous Oxide and Oxygen (laughing gas)
- Oral sedation/ I.V. sedation
If your child has treatment needs, we have a wide variety of options to make your child have the best treatment and experience possible. We offer in-office sedations.
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Routine Exams
Preventative care is at the core of our practice and philosophy. It is the most important step in managing your oral health. We believe in a patient-centered approach, combining excellent service with modern care. If you need a new dental provider in San Francisco, California.
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Emergency Care
Our dental team can help you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, no matter what the issue is. We are always on-call. Calm, fast care prevents many complications that could lead to expensive treatments.
Our wide variety of emergency, restorative, and cosmetic treatments can resolve your pain and return your smile. From tooth-colored fillings for cavities and broken teeth to pulp therapy for dental abscesses, our office has everything on-site for emergency dental treatments.
New and existing patients are always welcome for urgent or emergency oral health needs. Contact us immediately for the care that you deserve.
Digital X-Rays
X-Rays are used to examine the inside of your teeth. We are hoping to be able to catch any problems that we can’t see with the naked eye! Using radiology, we are able to see which teeth are developing cavities. We may also see some teeth or gum areas that may require some extra work.
Sealants
When we apply a dental sealant, we paint a plastic coating on top of your teeth. This makes your teeth smooth getting rid of the rough edges, depressions, and grooves that are commonly found on teeth. It is essentially a protective coating against tooth decay and cavities.
The most common place to paint sealants is on back teeth since they are often irregular. They can also be very hard to reach, even if you brush your teeth regularly. We use it more on children though we do perform sealants on adults too!
Composite fillings (white/tooth colored)
Fillings are a safe and effective way to restore function and appearance to damaged teeth. If you need a filling, our team can help you feel better and get back to eating and drinking normally.
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Crowns & Bridges
Our team takes great pride in helping you feel good about your smile again by providing expert crown and bridge placement.
Dental crowns are caps shaped to look like teeth that cover a damaged tooth in order to restore strength, function, and normal appearance. Dental crowns completely cover any remaining tooth so they fit seamlessly into your smile.
Dental bridges involve two or more crowns being placed to fill a gap between teeth. Bridges help restore function and improve the appearance of your smile when you need more than once tooth replaced.
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Endodontics
24th Street Dental Office is proud to offer endodontic services for our patients. Endodontics is a dental specialty, dealing with the dental pulp. When the dental pulp is infected or diseased, it is important to perform treatment in order to have healthy teeth and a healthy mouth.
The most common endodontic treatment is root canal, though we also deal with cracked teeth and numerous forms of dental trauma. We will do everything that we can do to protect your dental pulp so that you can keep your teeth.
We are proud to be able to offer endodontic services for our patients so that they don’t have to go to multiple dentists to get the care that they need. We are constantly learning and growing to give you the very best dental care available.
If you have any questions about our endodontic services or you need to be seen by one of our dentists, feel free to contact us today at (415) 282-4566.
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Dentures
Dentures help return normal oral function, preserve facial profiles and enhance muscle strength.
Dentures are the most straightforward way for Bloom Dental patients to replace all of their teeth at one time. If only a few teeth are missing, removable partials are an alternative to full dentures. Like bridges, partial dentures replace a few teeth at a time – except they are removable. If any diseased tooth needs to be removed before the denture therapy, the gum tissues are allowed a period of healing for the best fit possible.
Immediate dentures are a faster alternative for tooth replacement. Rather than waiting for days or weeks to recover, the teeth are delivered the very same day as teeth removal, preventing the need to go without teeth while you heal. At the follow up, our expert dentists then adjust the dentures to fit the healed oral structures comfortably.
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Extractions
Teeth need to be extracted, or removed, when they are beyond damaged to be repaired effectively. Major tooth damage occurs following an injury or due to decay. Even though adult teeth should last a lifetime, in these cases tooth extraction may be the only option to keep the mouth healthy over time.
If a tooth cannot be repaired safely, they may need to be extracted for your oral health. Teeth need to be extracted for a number of reasons, including:
- When they prevent proper tooth eruption, or there is overcrowding
- Upcoming orthodontic treatment
- Before radiation or chemotherapy treatments
- Impacted wisdom teeth that damage the jaws or adjacent teeth
- When undergoing medical treatment for organ transplants or cancer
Implants
When you have missing teeth, an alternative solution to dentures is dental implants. While dentures are removable, dental implants provide permanent new teeth to restore your mouth’s function and appearance. Dental implants tend to offer a successful and lasting solution to the loss of some or all of your teeth.
We are able to provide different dental implant solutions depending on your specific needs. We will conduct a thorough assessment and discuss your options with you during your scheduled appointment.
For more information on dental implants or to request an appointment, please don’t hesitate to contact us today at (415) 282-4566!
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Teeth Whitening
24th Street Dental offers teeth whitening options that give you dramatic results in a short period of time. Our dentists offer both in-office teeth whitening treatments as well as take-home kits. Our whitening services lighten much more effectively than anything available over the counter.
In-office teeth whitening is a same day treatment that brightens your teeth by multiple shades in one hour. One of our dental specialists applies the gel to your teeth and a bright light accelerates the results. Results are dramatic and you walk out of our front door with a brighter smile on the very same day.
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Nitrous Oxide
Nitrous oxide is a very safe form of sedation. It is inhaled and the effects start within a few seconds. It can be adjusted quickly if a patient is too light or too deep. Also, after a few minutes without the gas, it is safe to drive home. It has very little side effects and hardly any effects on the kidneys, liver, brain, and more.
Nitrous oxide makes many people feel happy and warm. It causes a lot of people to laugh so it is often called laughing gas. It is great for sedation when a person is nervous at the dentist. It is also a great pain relief.
Not many dentists use nitrous oxide analgesia anymore. We would be glad to use it if you are extremely nervous or you need some pain relief during your procedure. Our goal is to keep you as relaxed as possible, no matter what procedure that we are performing.