Green/Holistic/Biomimetic

At Isbell Dental, our central goal is to aid and improve the lives of our patients through functional and cosmetic dentistry. We aim to accomplish increased physical health through creation and maintenance of a functional masticatory and chewing apparatus to allow for good nutrition. We hope that by using and displaying a smile that is complete and fully functional that we also increase pride, confidence and correspondingly mental health.

Some buzzwords to learn about in the dental field about a return of your health to its original form are “green,” “holistic” and “biomimetic.” Green dentistry is a high-tech approach that reduces the environmental impact of dental practices and encompasses a service model for dentistry that supports and maintains wellness. Holistic medicine and dentistry also supports wellness by addressing all aspects of health and attempting to heal the body with natural and bio inert or biocompatible materials and technology. Biomimetic dentistry aims to utilize minimally invasive strategies, techniques and materials to mimic how your body functioned prior to the dysfunction or breakage that is found and diagnosed.

We are big believers in patient autonomy and want to ensure that each decision you make concerning your dental health is a well educated one. We have the knowledge and ability to complete a wide range of procedures and we want you to feel safe while receiving them. If you have specific concerns about the delivery style and materials involved, we offer a range of options to fit your needs.

Examples of procedures that we offer, especially upon request, with the purpose of catering to your individual needs are:

• Amalgam Removal using a rubber dam and air scavenging
• All natural mouth rinses from Stella Life are kept in stock as a dry mouth treatment and healing aid from surgery.
• Intra oral scanning instead of impression taking is possible for most situations where a prosthetic will be made.
• All Ceramic crowns made from zirconia or lithium disilicate are our primary materials for indirect restorations.
• CBCT evaluation of root apices, sinuses and bone by our doctors. If you would like to have your imaging evaluated by a dental radiologist, we also can capture the image and send it for you.
• Restoration of zirconia implants. We do not place zirconia implants at this time but we do refer to an oral surgeon that will place them prior to our restorative process. We do place titanium implants from Biohorizons and Sterngold in our office.
• We offer several bone grafting material options but the primary one we use is Biohorizons Mineross. This company primarily sources its allograft tissue from human donors, specifically from femoral heads harvested after hip replacement surgeries, and is processed by Cells+Tissue Bank Austria (C+TBA).
• We complete curettage of all extraction sites to remove PDL and granulation tissue and establish adequate bleeding for clot formation and ideal healing.