West Seattle Family Dentist and Dental Care

• Comprehensive Dental Exams
  
  During your initial exam, we spend two face-to-face hours with you, our guest. At this appointment, we get to know you, review your medical and dental history, listen to your short- and long- term hopes, dreams, and expectations, and answer any questions you may have about our practice or your care.
  We then work with you to develop a custom-tailored oral health plan that focuses on where you want to be and how you'll get there. Your custom plan also incorporates fees, number and length of visits, and any other considerations particular to your situation.
• Minimally Invasive Dentistry
• Conservation of Natural Tooth Structure
• Digital Photography
• Digital X-rays, with 90% less radiation
• Natural Looking Restorations
• Tooth-colored Bonded Fillings, with no metal or mercury
• Porcelain Veneers, Crowns, and Bridges
• Porcelain Inlays & Onlays
• Dental Implants & Implant Crowns
• Full Mouth and Bite Reconstruction
• Headache and TMJ Disorder Solutions
• Neuromuscular Dentistry
• Nutritional Analysis with BioPhotonic Scanning
  

  Our goal is to work in partnership with you to prevent problems or to diagnose problems at an early stage, while you can do something about them, to keep you as healthy as possible. The Biophotonic Scanner performs a simple non-invasive scan that takes 90 seconds. The scanning result is your Skin Carotenoid Score (SCS), which is a measure of your body's antioxidant levels. This gives us not only an idea of your nutritional health, and how quickly your body is aging, but also determines your risk for periodontal disease as well as diseases like cancer, diabetes, heart disease and arthritis.

  Knowing your Skin Carotenoid Score, or your antioxidant level is as important as knowing your cholesterol levels, or your blood pressure. Current medical literature suggests that antioxidants can decrease your risk and slow the progression of periodontal disease, cancer (lung, breast, prostate & skin), heart disease, vision problems such as cataracts & macular degeneration and complications related to diabetes. Antioxidants can slow down the aging process, boost your immune system, and speed recovery times while decreasing pain and inflammation. In an ideal world, we would get plenty of antioxidants from a diet rich in organic fruits and vegetables. Since most of us Americans do not eat the recommended dose of 8-12 servings of fruits and vegetables daily, it is important that we take a vitamin supplement that can provide optimal nutritional support and effectively raise overall antioxidant levels.

  "The amount of antioxidants that you maintain in your body is directly proportional to how long you will live."
  Richard Cutler, MD, Director of Anti-Aging Research, National Institute of Health

  Should your scan show that your Antioxidant level is low, we will encourage you to increase your intake of organic fruits and vegetables, and we can show you how to increase your antioxidant levels simply, effectively, measurably, and guaranteed with the finest nutritional supplements available. In the past, I have been reluctant to make specific vitamin recommendations because most products are poorly absorbed and ineffective. Now we have a way to scientifically assess and objectively measure your antioxidant levels with your Skin Carotenoid Score to prove that your supplements are bioavailable and being absorbed. Comprehensive nutritional support programs from Pharmanex range from $1 to $6 per day.

  Remember, as Ben Franklin stated so wisely years ago, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure".

  We encourage you to schedule your Family and Friends for scans as well. Call 206.935.5522 for an appointment.

  "Low levels of antioxidant vitamins may increase the risk of several chronic diseases."
  Journal of American Medical Association, June 19th, 2002
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