Sleep Apnea Treatment
Our dentists in Grand Rapids, MI, offer easy at-home testing to determine if you’re a candidate for our sleep apnea treatment. Our oral appliances can help relieve symptoms associated with obstructive sleep apnea and help you achieve a more restful night’s sleep.
Breathing is important, and so is your quality of sleep. Unlike other treatments for obstructive sleep apnea, a custom oral appliance is both comfortable and effective. This means that you’ll be able to enjoy a deep, restorative sleep without interruptions to your breathing.
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Braces – Orthodontics
Orthodontics, which most of us know as braces, describes the art of using appliances to straighten and align teeth. At Great Lakes Dental Care, our professional dentists most commonly use braces to move teeth into their proper positioning. Our Grand Rapids dentists will bond brackets to your teeth and arch wires are threaded through the brackets. The arch wires act as a track, guiding each tooth to its proper position.
There are several types of orthodontic braces available to our Grand Rapids dental patients, including traditional metal braces, ceramic ‘tooth-colored’ braces and clear aligners.
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TMJ Treatment
Great Lakes Dental Care can provide advice and treatment for patients who show symptoms for TMJ, which stands for temporal-mandibular joint. Temporal, as in temple area of skull; mandibular as in mandible, or lower jaw; and joint as in it’s where the head and jaw meet.
Problems with this joint may be caused by a misalignment of the teeth, oral trauma or excess muscle tension. Cartilage buffers the two bones that meet there and five muscles are also related to this area of the mouth. If something goes wrong a good deal of trouble can result.
Sedation Dentistry
We are happy to offer a number of solutions for patients to make your dental visit as comfortable as possible. Sedation dentistry techniques enable patients who might otherwise avoid the dentist to receive dental treatment necessary for a healthy smile.
Dental sedation is a safe and effective technique that can be used on a patient who suffers from dental anxiety or dental phobia.
Oral Surgery
As a comprehensive and full-service dental practice, Great Lakes Dental Care aims to minimize the stress, fear and uncertainty that surrounds surgical procedures by performing oral surgery right in our Grand Rapids dental office.
Oral surgery focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and defects of the mouth and dental structures. Oral surgery can apply to any treatment or procedure performed in the mouth that involves our Grand Rapids dentists repairing, extracting, re-aligning, removing, implanting, restoring or reducing pain resulting from issues with the teeth, gums, mouth or jaw.
Wisdom Teeth
Great Lakes Dental Care’s practice in Grand Rapids has helped hundreds of patients deal with the frustration, pain and uncertainty surrounding whether or not to remove their wisdom teeth.
While wisdom teeth can be a valuable asset to your mouth when they are healthy and properly positioned, problems may develop that require their removal. Our professional and knowledgeable dental professionals will work with you to determine the best course of action for your specific situation.
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At Great Lakes Dental Care, our Grand Rapids dentists are proud to offer myofunctional therapy—a specialized program of exercises designed to correct improper function of the tongue and facial muscles. By improving the way your tongue and facial muscles work together, myofunctional therapy can enhance essential functions like speech, eating, and breathing. For growing children, achieving these goals supports optimal dental and craniofacial development. This therapy is noninvasive, effective, and tailored to meet the unique needs of patients of all ages.
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For additional information on the comprehensive specialty dental services we offer, please contact Great Lakes Dental Care today or call or text us at (616) 784-6300.
