Shirley H. Bien, DMD
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OUR MISSION STATEMENT
We want to enjoy a healthy mouth and pleasing smile through continuing education, we are constantly learning how to incorporate into our practice new equipment, materials, and methods that improve our patient smiles.
Our patients emotional and physical well-being is our number one priority and we will strive everyday to make it fun for them as well as safe and rewarding.
We strive to create and maintain an environment in which we provide health care of the highest quality in an atmosphere of mutual trust and acceptance.
We value our reputation which is build upon our services and will continue to enhance our personal development to better serve the cause of quality destistry.
Dr. Bien, Dr. Hanna and our staff would like to thank you for trusting us with your dental needs and the care of your family and friends.
We are proud to announce our new advance " Laser Technology" in which patients will experience a variety of treatments, which include:
Periodontal disease, Reduction of Bacteria Level, Laser Wound healing, Laser Root Planing, Fibroma, Anterior Frenectomy, Crown Lenghtening, Gingivectomy, Treatment of cancker sores, herpetic and aphthous ulcers of the oral mucosa and many more.
We would like to invite our patients, friends and family to join our new group Shirley H. Bien DMD at Facebook.com, where you can share your dental experience with us to others.
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Are Your Roots Showing?
Have you watched a child trying to walk on stilts? They wobble and sometimes fall down. If your tooth is on stilts (has an open furcation), your tooth also wobbles and may fall out.
A furcation is the spot on the tooth where the roots diverge into two or more roots. It is a common condition that begins with periodontal disease. This is a chronic infection that caused your gums to recede and destroyed the jawbone and other supporting structures around your tooth. As the gums receded, a furcation (gap) formed under the tooth where the roots divide away from the body of the tooth.
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Hooked on Hookah
It’s a social thing, especially for young, hip urbanites and young professionals living close to a college campus. Smoking a hookah, or waterpipe, is gaining in popularity in the U.S. and is just as dangerous as smoking tobacco or other forms of tobacco.
One user compared a hookah bar or cafe to being at home, but with cooler people. Oral cancer is not cool. And it’s no longer an “old man’s” disease. The hookah is a water reservoir with a tobacco heater, pipe and attached hose(s). The user sucks flavored tobacco smoke into the reservoir that acts somewhat like a filter, then sucks the smoke out through the hose and into his or her lungs.
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Is bone loss permanent?
Is bone loss permanent? The answer is yes and no. Unlike a crab that can regrow an appendage, humans cannot regrow new bones on their own, but we do have ways to encourage the bone tissue in the jawbone to regenerate. This procedure is called bone grafting or ridge augmentation.
There are several factors that can cause jawbone loss, including a tooth extraction, dental injury, oral disease or a developmental defect. Ridge augmentation is necessary for some restoration procedures. For example, your jawbone must be thick enough and tall enough for us to place a bridge, crown or denture that will be supported by an implant.
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Your Mouth and World War I
Could your mouth be fighting World War I? Commonly called “trench mouth,” Vincent’s stomatitis is a severe gum infection that plagued soldiers during WWI. Many soldiers were confined to trenches while fighting the War, their bodys’ resistance was low, and they couldn’t take care of their teeth.
Vincent’s stomatitis typically affects people up to about 35 years of age. This is a serious condition also known as ANUG—acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis.
Your mouth contains millions of bacteria, most of which keep the bad bacteria under control. Vincent’s stomatitis is an indication that the bad bacteria won the war in your mouth.
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Oral Care and Daycare: A dilemma
It’s a difficult decision to leave your youngster with a childcare provider while you are at work. One dilemma is making sure your child gets appropriate oral hygiene care away from home.
It is vitally important to protect baby teeth from decay and pre-mature loss. Baby teeth preserve space for the permanent teeth to erupt and move into position, and they help your child to chew and develop speech.
Not all childcare providers have oral hygiene programs.
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Laser in Dentistry
Laser are in smart-bombs, Cd players, and bar-code readers at the grocery checkout counter. Now they are showing up in your dentists office.
WHAT IS A LASER?
A laser is a device that creates a dense, powerful beam of light. The beam from a low-power laser can play the music on a CD or read those weird bar codes on your box of corn flakes. High-power lasers cam make precise cuts through thick steel or blow up a guided missile. It is the lower-power lasers that dentists are starting to use.
HOW THEY ARE USED:
Experimental dental lasers have been around since the 1960s, but have only recently been approved for treating the dental consumer. There are basically four uses for the dental laser. First, It can cut and remove gum tissue. The procedure, say proponents of the laser, promotes faster healing, lowers the risk of infection, reduces pain after treatment and it is quiet. In the chair all you hear is the hissing of the air jet that cools the spot where teh beam is focused. Interestingly, its opponents say the laser is no better than conventional dental tools. One of the these, a device that uses an electric current to cut and remove dental tissue, is silent, fast, and not as expensive as a laser. The second use for a dental laser is in hardening filling materials. Conventional hardening lights will work in about 30 seconds. The laser reduces hardening time to five or ten seconds.