Mallard Creek Family Dentistry specializes in restoring the health, function, and beauty of your smile in Charlotte, NC. Whether you’re dealing with missing teeth, gum disease, or jaw pain, we provide restorative dental care for patients of all ages. Our comprehensive dental services include a range of restorative treatments in Charlotte that improve both your oral health and daily life. Using advanced techniques and modern technology, we help you achieve a healthy smile that lasts.
Restoring Your Smile in Charlotte, NC
Dr. Rankin and Dr. Gustafson are dedicated to restoring the health and beauty of your smile. Our restorative dental services can help you replace missing teeth, treat gum disease, find relief from jaw pain and more. We’re here to give you personalized care in a warm and friendly dental practice.
Dental Crowns: Protecting and Strengthening Teeth
Dental crowns are one of the most common ways to restore damaged or weakened teeth. A dental crown can protect and strengthen a tooth from decay, trauma, or damage that’s too large for a filling. A crown fits over your existing tooth to fully restore its shape, function, and look.
We offer crowns made from high-quality materials like porcelain and ceramic that blend naturally with your surrounding teeth. The process of placing a crown typically involves two appointments. During the first visit, we prepare the tooth by removing any decay. We then take impressions to create a custom crown that will fit perfectly. At your next appointment, the dentist places the permanent crown so you have a healthy tooth again.
Dental Bridges: Filling Gaps from Missing Teeth
If you’re missing one or more teeth, dental bridges are a great treatment to restore your smile. A dental bridge consists of artificial teeth that’s anchored by the natural teeth on either side of the gap. We make realistic dental bridges and replacement teeth just for you. They will look like your natural teeth, so you will leave our office with a full and working smile.
Dental Implants: Permanent Tooth Replacement
For patients that need a more permanent solution to missing teeth, we have dental implants available. Implants are titanium posts that an oral surgeon surgically places in the jawbone to replace the roots of missing teeth. Once the implant fuses with the bone, one of our dentists will place a custom crown on top to complete the restoration.
Dental implants are extremely durable and long-lasting. They don’t just help you eat and talk comfortably. They also keep your jawbone healthy by supporting your tissue. Bone loss often happens after losing teeth.
Dentures: Restoring Multiple Missing Teeth
If you’re missing several teeth or all your teeth, our modern dentures might be what you need. Dentures are removable prosthetics that can be custom-made to fit your mouth comfortably. We offer two types of dentures. Full dentures replace all the teeth in your upper or lower jaw. Partial dentures fill in gaps between remaining natural teeth.
TMJ Treatment: Relieving Jaw Pain and Discomfort
Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) disorders can cause pain, stiffness, and difficulty moving your jaw. TMJ issues often happen when clenching or grinding your teeth, injury to the jaw, or arthritis. Symptoms include jaw pain, headaches, earaches, and even difficulty opening and closing your mouth.
We offer TMJ treatment to help relieve these symptoms and improve how your jaw moves. Treatment can involve wearing a custom-made mouthguard to prevent teeth grinding, exercises to strengthen jaw muscles, or other therapies that reduce pain and inflammation. We want to help you move your jaw easily and feel comfortable again, so you don’t have to deal with pain anymore.
Periodontal Disease Treatment: Protecting Your Gum Health
Gum disease is a common condition that affects the gums and the supporting bone around your teeth. Without treatment, it can lead to tooth loss and other serious health issues. It begins with inflammation in your gums, or gingivitis. Without treatment, gingivitis can progress to more severe forms that affect the bone.
We provide non-surgical periodontal therapies to treat gum disease in its earliest stages. If you would like more information on how we diagnose and treat periodontal disease, please visit Periodontal disease treatment.
Sleep Apnea Treatment: Improving Your Quality of Sleep
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a serious condition that blocks your airway while you sleep. This causes interruptions in breathing and gasping for air. This can also cause daytime sleepiness, fatigue, high blood pressure and heart disease. We offer oral appliance therapy as an alternative to CPAP machines for treating mild to moderate sleep apnea. We provide sleep apnea treatment to our patients in Charlotte, NC.
If you have questions or would like to schedule a consultation, contact our Charlotte dental office today. Call us at 980-550-5572 or request an appointment online. We look forward to helping you restore your smile with confidence!