Pediatric Dentistry
Comfort Dental Care and Orthodontics is the place to go for complete and comprehensive dental care for your children (6 months - 15 years).
Braces
Orthodontists use braces to align and straighten your teeth and to reposition your bite. With locations in Crestview, Pensacola, Mary Esther, and Santa Rosa Beach, Comfort Dental Care and Orthodontics uses braces to improve a patient’s smile and overall dental health.
What Are Braces?
When your teeth are crooked, crowded, irregularly spaced, out of alignment, or protruding, braces are typically the go-to treatment method to correct them. Available for use on patients of all ages, braces use metal brackets to gradually reposition teeth and ultimately provide a healthier, more attractive smile.
Why Should I Wear Braces?
Braces are beneficial for the following reasons:
- Appearance: Most people get self-conscious about their appearance, and their smile factors into that. Orthodontic care and proper oral hygiene will improve your smile and appearance creating a more confident you.
- Gum damage: Having an incorrect bite can actually damage your gums. Braces ensure that your teeth are biting down properly and prevent gum damage from happening.
- Hygiene: It’s much harder to keep your teeth clean and healthy when you have crowding or overlapping. While you can keep misaligned teeth clean, it’s easier to do when they are straight; since poor cleaning factors into gum disease, tooth decay, and tooth loss, it’s best for teeth to be as straight and manageable as possible.
- Jaw joint problems: When your bite is too severe, it can cause damage and pain in the joint area.
- Wear on your teeth: Clenching, excessive or uneven wear, and grinding of your teeth are unfortunate and probable results of a misaligned bite.
What Are the Benefits of Wearing Braces?
By getting braces and straightening your teeth, you will notice a better appearance, improved bite function, and of course, a beautiful smile. In addition to that, you will notice increased confidence and self-esteem, cleaner teeth, and easier oral hygiene maintenance.
Are Braces Right for Me?
Braces are typically used on children and teens, but it is not uncommon to see them on adults as well. An orthodontist might recommend that you wear braces if you suffer from one of the following problems:
- A poor overbite or underbite
- Teeth that are crooked, crowded, or misaligned
- Tooth gaps or spaces
Why Is Straightening Your Teeth Important?
Failing to treat bite or malocclusion issues could result in digestive problems, gum disease, tooth decay or loss, and other health concerns. Straightening your teeth will not only reduce the risk of issues like these but it will also improve your appearance and as a result, boost your self-esteem.
How Do I Take Care of My Braces?
It’s always important to take good care of your teeth, namely by brushing and flossing after meals. Hard and sticky foods can break or damage your braces, and visiting an orthodontist regularly will ensure that they stay in the best possible condition.
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How Much Do Braces Cost?
Similar to the timing of your treatment, the cost of braces is different for each patient. Some or all of your orthodontic treatment may be covered by your insurance, depending on your plan. In addition to accepting payment by cash, check, or credit card, we have outside financing through CareCredit® and OrthoBanc® available for those who need to make payments over a longer period of time.
Contact Comfort Dental Care and Orthodontics in Crestview, Pensacola, Mary Esther, or Santa Rosa Beach today to find out if braces are the right choice for you.
Related Services:
All-on-4 Method
Do you have dentures? Have you been told you’re not a candidate for an implant or fixed bridge due to bone loss? All-on-4® dental implants offer the benefit of Fully functioning, new teeth that improve your appearance.
Endodontics
A root canal procedure with an expert endodontist is needed to save a tooth damaged by severe decay or trauma.
Dental Hygiene
Dental hygiene involves the proper methods and procedures for taking care of your mouth – including your teeth and gums and typically involves establishing a routine for brushing, flossing, and any other oral care procedures that protect and treat your teeth.
Family Dentistry
Do you need a caring and honest dentist you can trust to serve your entire family? We provide a full range of family dentistry services, whether you are looking into teeth whitening or porcelain veneers, have a teenager who needs braces, or has a young child and you want to take them to their first dental appointment.
Orthodontics
When your teeth are crooked or misaligned, or you need to correct your bite, your dentist will direct you towards a special division of dentistry called “orthodontics.” Orthodontists work with you to keep your teeth and mouth in good physical shape and alignment.
Invisalign
Instead of metal braces, many patients prefer Invisalign® – a cosmetic dental procedure that straightens and aligns your teeth using clear and removable trays. These trays are comfortable and changed approximately every other week to gradually shift the position of your teeth over time.
Braces
When your teeth are crooked, crowded, irregularly spaced, out of alignment, or protruding, braces are typically the go-to treatment method to correct them. Available for use on patients of all ages, braces use metal brackets to gradually reposition teeth and ultimately provide a healthier, more attractive smile.
Retainers
A retainer is custom-made, composed of plastic and metal, and fits inside your teeth to help maintain the correct positioning of your teeth.
Zygomatic Dental Implants
Zygomatic implants are a more advanced form of dental implants specifically used with the upper jaw when the jaw is resorbed or eroded following tooth removal. These implants provide the support for upper implant bridgework where other implants do not work.
Periodontics
One of the things that distinguishes and differentiates Comfort Dental Care and Orthodontics from other dental care providers is that we have all the experts you need for perfect oral health under one roof, including periodontics.
Crown Lengthening
Crown lengthening helps to expose more of your natural tooth so your mouth can be better prepared for a necessary cosmetic or restorative procedure or to address and improve the health of your natural gum line.
Gum Disease
Our gums are a key to our wellbeing because they keep our teeth strongly rooted and empower our ability to function and preserve our facial structure for optimal personal appearance.
Preventive Dentistry
Preventive dentistry is the practice of caring for your teeth, both at home and at your dentist’s office, to keep them healthy. Preventive dentistry will help you to avoid cavities, gum disease, enamel wear, and more.
Digital X-Rays
Our advanced use of digital imaging technology at Comfort Dental Care and Orthodontics is enhancing our quality of care, thanks to increased speed, efficiency, and accuracy.
Root Canals
A root canal procedure is needed to save a tooth damaged by severe decay or trauma. Due to the risk of infection, it is important to treat these problems as soon as they arise.
Sedation Dentistry
Comfort Dental Care and Orthodontics have the credentials necessary to perform conscious sedation dentistry.
Cosmetic Dentistry
Cosmetic dentistry combines the art of aesthetics, the knowledge of dental structures, and the science behind technological innovations in order to make your teeth look and feel their best.
Dental Bridges
A bridge is placed to correct teeth that sit on either side of a gap. A dental bridge can restore your smile, while also maintaining your face shape. Perhaps most importantly, a well-placed bridge will prevent your other teeth from falling out of alignment.
Dental Crowns
Decay or trauma can cause loss of tooth structure and can compromise function as well as esthetics. Extensive loss of tooth structure can best be replaced with a restoration that covers your entire tooth as in a crown. This “full coverage” restoration can strengthen your tooth and in the hands of an expert can provide a long-lasting esthetic and functional result.
Dentures
Tooth loss is challenging on many levels. Not only can it affect what you eat and how you chew leading to more serious health concerns, but it can also make you feel embarrassed and uncomfortable. We want you to be your best self. Dentures may help you get there.
Dental Sealants
Sealants are a thin, protective coating that bonds to the surface of your teeth. When properly applied, sealants can help prevent cavities. Best of all, sealants do not require numbing or drilling and are generally painless. Developed to ward off decay before it affects a tooth, they are most commonly used on those teeth most prone to cavities.
Porcelain Inlays
Porcelain inlays are hard; custom manufactured inserts that are usually placed in larger cavities and areas where there is less tooth structure.
Porcelain Onlays
Porcelain onlays are often referred to as partial crowns, and they are generally placed on your existing tooth as a base and fitted onto the tooth.
Teeth Cleaning
At Comfort Dental, we believe that getting your teeth cleaned every 6 months keep your teeth and gums as healthy as possible.
Composite Fillings
When decay occurs in a tooth, it’s important to take steps right away to address the issue. A filling is used to treat a decaying tooth and halt the spread of further tooth decay. Composite fillings are made of a natural resin composite material, as opposed to metal fillings.
Extractions
While many of us do our best to keep our teeth healthy, sometimes a tooth needs to be taken out to keep you healthy. In these cases, an extraction is necessary.
Composite Bonding
With dental bonding from Comfort Dental Care and Orthodontics, we’ll help you create a great smile while solving and correcting potentially serious dental problems. Oftentimes, if you’re looking for a fast and relatively inexpensive way to improve upon your smile, then cosmetic tooth bonding from our dentists can be the ideal solution.
Smile Makeover
At Comfort Dental Care and Orthodontics, we practice with a specific focus on smile makeovers; the latest, most advanced cosmetic dentistry in a comfortable and relaxed environment.
Teeth Whitening
For the very best, get-your-teeth-the-whitest-possible dentist experience, pick Comfort Dental Care and Orthodontics. Our professional, in-office whitening treatment will help you get rid of all those unappealing stains on the tooth’s surface, in addition to removing stains from deep within your tooth’s enamel.
Veneers
When it comes to efficient solutions for helping you achieve that beautiful smile you’ve always wanted, one of the most popular, effective, and fastest methods is porcelain veneers.
Dental Implants
When teeth are lost, dentists typically replace them with full or partial dentures. Dental implants are permanent posts that act as “roots” for the replacement teeth.
Same-Day Implants
The dentists at Comfort Dental Care and Orthodontics use the All-on-4® procedure to fit patients with a fixed prosthesis that is supported by four implants.
Mini Dental Implants
Mini dental implants are smaller dental implants that work in the same manner as traditional dental implants. Because they are smaller in diameter, it is necessary to have a very precise replacement so that they function correctly.
