Preventive Dentistry Simpsonville
Dental Care for Healthy, Happy Smiles
Let the skilled Tylan Creek Family Dentistry team help you achieve and maintain a healthy, beautiful smile with preventive dentistry in Simpsonville, SC. We offer a wide array of general and preventive dentistry services to keep patients’ smiles healthy from age 1 to 100. Contact our knowledgeable team to find out more or schedule an appointment for your family in one of our three convenient, family-friendly dental office locations.
Why Choose Tylan Creek Family Dentistry for Preventive Dentistry?
- Multiple Dental Professionals Here to Help
- Patients of All Ages are Welcome
- Intraoral Cameras Used for Improved Patient Experience
Dental Checkups & Cleanings
Dental checkups and cleanings every six months at Tylan Creek Family Dentistry are essential to keep smiles healthy. During every dental checkup, we carefully examine the visible portions of smiles and the underlying supportive structures. This includes a combination of visual and tactile examinations and diagnostic X-rays. The thorough examinations are used to screen for common oral health issues including tooth decay, gum disease, temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMD), teeth grinding or clenching (bruxism), and oral cancer. Following your examination, one of our hygienists will carefully remove plaque and tartar buildup from the surfaces of teeth and make recommendations for at-home hygiene products and care techniques. Finally, you’ll sit down face-to-face with one of our skilled dentists, to discuss the results of your examination. We’re happy to answer questions you have throughout your appointment, but it may be easiest to ask at this point. Then, we’ll partner with you to create an ongoing treatment plan to ensure your optimal oral health.
Oral Cancer Screening
Many of the patients we treat in our Simpsonville dental office believe that only people who smoke or chew tobacco will be diagnosed with oral cancer. Unfortunately, this is not correct. As much as 30% of those diagnosed don’t participate in any high-risk activities at all. That’s why we include oral cancer screenings as part of every six-month dental checkup for all patients. It’s our goal to help diagnose oral cancer in the earliest stages when treatments may be effective in reversing the damage. According to the Oral Cancer Foundation, early diagnosis is the best way to reduce the number of annual deaths attributed to oral cancer, and we hope that screenings at our dental office every six months will help our patients avoid becoming oral cancer statistics.
Dental Sealants
Sealants are thin coats of resin that cover teeth and prevent tooth decay or damage by stopping plaque and tartar from weakening the tooth enamel. We frequently recommend dental sealants as a preventive care technique for children, but adults may also want to receive a sealant application if they experience regular tooth decay. We can apply sealants as part of any six-month dental checkup. We simply coat teeth with the liquid sealant that fills in biting surfaces, and once in place, we use our curing light to harden the sealants onto teeth.
Family Dentistry
At Tylan Creek Family Dentistry, we are passionate about offering the highest quality care for patients of all ages and stages of dental development, but family dentistry is about more than that. It’s about making the process of caring for you and your loved ones’ smiles convenient and comfortable. We know how busy you are, and we are happy to provide block scheduling to see everyone you love on the same day. We pride ourselves on seeing you at the time you’re scheduled and getting you back to your daily routine as quickly as possible while still providing superior quality care that exceeds your highest expectations. Most importantly, family dentistry is about offering every patient we see the advanced, effective dental care we would expect for our own families.