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NICE TEETH
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| DRS. CHEN, LAM & BERTOLOTTI |
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We believe in providing options for treatment and fully explaining
possible choices, benefits and alternatives. We believe that it is
important to provide the latest, most modern, up to date dentistry
possible in a relaxed and comfortable setting.
Our modern minimally invasive techniques
and bonding procedures are much more comfortable and make it much
less likely that a tooth will ever need a root canal. We firmly
believe that the less we do to a tooth, the healthier it will be.
Value in our Dental Services.
Value begins with prevention. The least expensive
problem to treat is the the one that never happens! We use the
prevention protocols established by the UC San Francisco Dental
School for all of our patients. We sincerely believe
that prevention is the single most important service we provide.
The second part of value is prudence when
recommending the replacement of the restorations you already have in
your mouth. Because all restorations have a limited lifetime, with
an average of only 8 to 10 years, we adhere to the philosophy of "If
it isn't broken, don't fix it!". We are very conservative in our
treatment recommendations and try to explain in every situation why
something needs to be replaced and what options are available.
The third component of value is the quality of the
treatment we provide. One can of Campbell's Chicken Noodle soup is
virtually identical in every way to every other can of the same
soup. McDonalds works very hard to ensure that a Big Mac from Los
Angeles is the same as a Big Mac from New York. But dentistry is not
like canned soup or Big Macs. Dentistry is a hand-crafted product.
Comparing a dental restoration to a piece of artwork is a little
pretentious. But the results any dentist, or artist, produces come
from that individual's hands, brains, education and experience. We
constantly strive to be very good at what we do and to continually
improve our skills. We are also very conservative by removing the
smallest amount of a tooth necessary to eliminate decay and retain
the new restoration. To accomplish these objectives, all of our new
restorations are chemically bonded to the remaining tooth structure.
Modern dentistry is both an art and a science.
It requires constant practice and re-education. |
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