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Restore Decay in a Beautiful Way With Tooth-Colored Fillings

March 15, 2013

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Last time, we talked about cosmetic restorative dentistry and the variety of treatments we have available to help make your smile both beautiful and healthy. Today we’re going to discuss one of those treatments in more detail: tooth-colored fillings.

Fillings are used to restore your teeth and repair the damage from cavities and decay. If your fillings are dark or made of metal, you may not be satisfied with your smile. At , we offer tooth-colored fillings so that we can restore your teeth and keep them looking natural and beautiful.

Tooth-colored fillings use composite resin to help restore your teeth. Since this is a metal-free material, we can match it to your natural teeth color, so that no one will be able to tell you had any work done at all. Also, the bond between the composite material and your tooth will help to strengthen it and help protect against future damages. We try and practice conservative dentistry, so the more natural tooth structure you are able to keep, the healthier your teeth will be.

If you have decayed teeth or have dark colored fillings, tooth-colored fillings are a great solution for your smile. Give us a call to see how simple this can be. We want all our patients to have beautiful smiles that make them happy.

At Michel Dental, we offer quality dental care for a distinctive smile. Our Topeka dental office serves patients from Emporia, Lawrence, Manhattan, and surrounding areas. Call us today to schedule your appointment.

Cosmetic Restorative Dentistry from Dr. Michel

February 26, 2013

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It is important that your teeth are both beautiful and functional. Cosmetic restorative dentistry from Dr. Michel is a great way to ensure this. We will repair damage and restore your teeth, while also ensuring that your smile looks attractive as well.

Dr. Michel focuses on your smile as a whole and thus views cosmetic and restorative dentistry as being interconnected. He feels that all restorative dentistry should also help to improve the appearance of your teeth, as well as repairing the damage that brought you into the office originally.

We offer a variety of cosmetic restorative dental services, including the following:

No matter what your smile needs, we’re here to get your smile functional and looking beautiful. We offer services such as tooth-colored fillings that blend the restorative with the cosmetic. Not only will any damage or decay to your teeth be restored, but it will be performed in an esthetically pleasing manner.

If cosmetic restorative dentistry sounds like something you’d be interested in, give us a call to schedule a consultation and learn more. We want all our patients to have a healthy and beautiful set of teeth.

At Michel Dental, we offer quality dental care for a distinctive smile. Our Topeka dental office serves patients from Emporia, Lawrence, Manhattan, and surrounding areas. Call us today to schedule your appointment.

Get Your Smile Ready for the Holidays with Dr. Michael E. Michel

October 31, 2012

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Cracked a tooth on some Halloween candy? Lost your dentures while bobbing for apples? Just need a cleaning for that sweet tooth of yours? Dr. Michel can help, just in time for the holidays!

Get ready to smile again for all those pictures you’ll take with your family and friends. Greet your loved ones with confidence! Whether you want your teeth straightened or whitened, we can help. From porcelain veneers to crowns and fillings, eat that turkey and pumpkin pie with confidence and ease. If you have crooked or oddly-spaced teeth, you don’t have to wait a whole year with porcelain veneers. With only two or three appointments, you can be finished. Yes, it’s that easy.

If you’re interested in whitening, Dr. Michel offers two convenient options for patients: you can either have your procedure done in the office or you can take it home and do it yourself. Want fast results? Consider in-office teeth whitening. It only takes an hour and you can have your teeth looking close to ten times whiter than before. For patients who aren’t in a hurry or have experienced sensitivity in the past, consider our take-home whitening option. With take-home teeth whitening, you can use custom-made bleaching trays and professional bleaching gel. In only a few days, you can reach your goal of a brighter, cleaner smile!

And remember, Michel Dental can also help if you have sleep apnea or snoring issues. If you’re afraid your snoring will wake all the relatives up at your house, Dr. Michel can introduce you to the Oasys Sleep Snoring Device. Your custom-made Oasys Sleep Snoring Device repositions your lower jaw or your tongue to keep those airways open throughout the night. Say goodbye to snoring and breathing problems caused by sleep apnea. You, and everyone around you, will appreciate it.

Call Michel Dental today to find out how Dr. Michel and our team can help with your various needs. We specialize in cosmetic restorative and preventative dentistry, TMJ therapy, as well as endodontics and periodontics. We happily serve patients from Topeka, Emporia, Lawrence, Manhattan, and surrounding areas.

Happy Holidays!

Enjoy a Straighter, Whiter Smile with Porcelain Veneers

July 26, 2012

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If you’ve ever explored our website or visited our Topeka dental office then you may have heard of porcelain veneers. They’re currently one of the popular services of their kind, with patients everywhere turning to them for help enhancing their smiles. And while patients have all kinds of reasons for choosing them, we’d like to spend today’s post focusing on just two.

Reason #1

First, because of how porcelain veneers work, patients with crooked or oddly spaced teeth may want to consider porcelain veneers over braces. Imagine having a beautiful, straighter-looking smile in just two or three appointments instead of the year or more it can take to complete treatment with orthodontics. Porcelain veneers only affect front teeth, though, so before you decide for sure that porcelain veneers are what you want, we recommend letting Dr. Michel take a look at your smile. During a consultation appointment at our Topeka office, he can help you determine if porcelain veneers really are the best choice for you.

Reason #2

Patients who want a whiter smile but have been disappointed by the results of professional teeth whitening may also want to consider porcelain veneers. Even the most powerful whitening system available can have trouble cutting through certain stains, like the stains caused by a prescription medication. But with porcelain veneers, Dr. Michel can help his Topeka patients achieve a dazzlingly white smile, with no follow-up whitening appointments or touch-ups at home necessary.

Why Are You Considering Porcelain Veneers?

Do you have a different reason for considering porcelain veneers? If so, we’d love to hear about it. Call Michel Dental today to schedule your consultation appointment. Dr. Michel gladly serves patients from Topeka, Emporia, Lawrence, Manhattan, and beyond.

 

Create a Sensation Smile in Time for Summer

June 8, 2012

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Summer is a time for family vacations, family reunions, and other major events, like weddings and get-togethers with friends. Because events like these often involve lots of pictures, if you’re embarrassed of your teeth, you might be dreading this summer more than you have to. All of which is why Dr. Michael Michel offers teeth whitening at his Topeka dental office.

Dazzling Results with Two Convenient Options

To help patients from Topeka and beyond achieve the whiter smile they’ve dreamed of, Dr. Michel offers two convenient options for patients to take advantage of—in-office and take-home whitening. Both can yield dramatically brighter results, but if you’re looking for an immediately whiter smile, you may want to consider in-office teeth whitening. After about one hour, in-office teeth whitening can have your teeth looking close to 10 times whiter than they did when you came in. In some cases, patients may experience some sensitivity afterwards, but if you want fast results, in-office teeth whitening may be for you.

For patients who aren’t in a hurry, though, or have experienced sensitivity in the past, why not talk to us about our take-home whitening option. With take-home teeth whitening, you can use custom-made bleaching trays and professional bleaching gel to help you achieve your goal in in a matter of days.

Are You Ready To Turn Your Smile Around?

If you’re ready to transform your smile with professional teeth whitening, call Dr. Michel’s Topeka office today. Dr. Michel serves patients from Emporia, Lawrence, Manhattan, and surrounding areas.

 

Crowns, Inlays, and Onlays—Conservative Options for a Healthier Smile

April 27, 2012

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We have mentioned that tooth-colored fillings are a great restorative and cosmetic solution for patients to take advantage of. But they aren’t the only cosmetic-restorative combination available at Dr. Michael Michel’s office. With tooth-colored crowns, inlays, and onlays, we can provide our Topeka-area patients with even more advanced care without compromising their smile’s natural appearance.

Tooth-Colored Crowns

Dr. Michel’s Topeka dental office uses all-porcelain crowns to help patients maintain a fully white smile while still delivering quality restorative care. Using our precise color-matching system, we can find just the right color of porcelain to blend with your natural tooth color. What’s more, porcelain crowns are durable and can provide long-lasting protecting to smiles with a cracked, broken, decay, or worn tooth.

Inlays and Onlays

If you’ve never heard of them before, inlays and onlays are what dentists use when a patient needs more than a filling but less than a crown. Like crowns, they’re created in a lab, and often from porcelain. Because they’re a conservative option, they let patients retain more of their own natural tooth structure, which benefits your smile in the long run. Dr. Michel will have to be the one to determine which material is most right for you, but in most cases we’re able to give patients a tooth-colored restoration.

Curious about crowns, inlay, onlays, or any of Dr. Michel’s other cosmetic and restorative options? We’d be happy to schedule a consultation visit with you. We’re committed to helping patients from Topeka, Emporia, Lawrence, Manhattan, and surrounding areas have strong, confident smiles that will last.

Save Your Smile with Tooth-Colored Fillings from Michel Dental

April 20, 2012

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If you’ve been told you need a filling, you may be worried about marring your smile with dark-colored amalgam fillings. At Michel Dental, we don’t want our patients to worry. That’s why we offer tooth-colored fillings. Also called composites, tooth-colored fillings are a cosmetic twist on restorative dentistry.

Why are tooth-colored fillings superior to their amalgam counterparts? For a couple of reasons.

First, because tooth-colored fillings are made of a combination of plastics, they can be shaded to exactly match your natural smile. That way, only you and Dr. Michel will ever have to know about your fillings.

Second, tooth-colored filling supports your remaining tooth structure. Amalgam fillings, by contrast, merely cover the tooth without supporting it. Amalgams are also temperature sensitive and can crack or change shape over time, possibly allowing for bacterial reinvasion later on.

Tooth-colored fillings, on the other hand, won’t change shape. Instead, they’ll provide long-lasting, conservative protection that helps you get the most out of your natural teeth and your natural smile.

Have you recently been told you need fillings and want to learn more about how tooth-colored fillings work? Michel Dental in Topeka would be happy to answer your questions. Give us a call today to set up an appointment. Dr. Michel and our entire time want to give you the strong, confident smile you deserve.

Visit Michel Dental for Your Spring Smile Makeover

April 13, 2012

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It may be spring now, but it’ll be summer before you know it. That means there’s no perfect time than now to prepare your smile for summer. At Michel Dental, we offer a range of popular cosmetic dentistry services to help Topeka-area patients transform their smiles and their confidence. Our cosmetic services include:

These great services run the gamut from purely cosmetic to cosmetic and restorative. No single service is right for everyone, though, which is why, if you’re considering a smile makeover this spring or summer, we invite you to schedule a consultation appointment with Dr. Michel today.

During your consultation visit, Dr. Michel will talk with you about how you want your smile to look, in addition to thoroughly examining your smile. When we have all the information we need, we can recommend the service we think will help your smile the most. For some patients, a single service is all you may need. But for others, a combination of services may be what works best.

Are you ready to transform your smile for the coming summer season? Give us a call today. Dr. Michel serves patients from Topeka, Emporia, Lawrence, Manhattan, and surrounding areas. And in the meantime, to find out more about any of cosmetic dentistry services, explore our website or click on one of the links above.

Unlike Leap Years, Regular Checkups Should Come Every Six Months

February 27, 2012

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What makes 2012 different from the past few years? It’s a leap year, something we won’t see again for four more years. But unlike leap years, regular checkups should come every six months, not every four years. Regular checkups give Dr. Michel and our Topeka team a chance to do two important things.

The first thing regular checkups let us to is clean your smile and check it for signs of gum disease, tooth decay, TMJ dysfunction, bruxism, and oral cancer. The second thing it lets us do is help you plan for the future. Based on what we discover during your exam, we can recommend services that will help you improve your smile and secure its good health. That includes recommending one of our cosmetic services. We offer a range of great cosmetic services, including porcelain veneers, teeth whitening, and tooth-colored fillings, all of which can help patients from a variety of backgrounds.

Visit our cosmetic dentistry page to learn more about all the services we offer.

And if you’re ready to schedule your next visit with Dr. Michel, call our Topeka dental office today. Dr. Michel serves patients from Topeka, Emporia, Lawrence, or Manhattan. The next leap year may not be for four years, but your next visit is just around the corner.

Transform Your Smile with Porcelain Veneers from Michel Dental

January 5, 2012

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If you’ve ever dreamed of giving your smile a makeover, Michel Dental has a service that can help you—porcelain veneers. With porcelain veneers, patients can transform a smile marred by cracks, chips, or slight misalignment into a smile that’s dazzling and confident.

What Are Porcelain Veneers?

Porcelain veneers are very thin, and because they’re made of porcelain they’re easy to care for. In fact, they require no special treatment at all—you can just brush and floss as you normally would. And what’s more, because porcelain veneers mimic the look of natural teeth, no one ever has to know about them.

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