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CEREC – Beautiful Teeth with a Touch of Art

dentist cambridge — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:19:14 +0000

We are proud to say that we, since four years, have a CEREC (Cad Cam) unit
here at the practice. This is something that will make your teeth while you wait.
We are actually one of the lucky few in the entire UK to have one!

Remember the days when you had to have several appointments to prepare your
crowns, taking impressions and so on? Then you had to wait until the work came
back from a technician and this was something you sometimes had to wait weeks for.
Well, those days are finally over and with the help from our CEREC, you can now
show off your dazzling new smile after just one single visit!
And to top that up – impressions are a thing of the past!

So what is this amazing thing that makes us stand out from the crowd?

There are five simple steps to the CEREC procedure, as followed:
1 | Before You start the treatment Dr. Abdah will inform You about the benefits
of CEREC and also go through the procedure in detail.

2| After preparing the tooth, by removing the decayed tissue or the broken area of
the tooth, Dr. Abdah will create a 3D image of Your tooth with a special sort of camera,
the CEREC camera.

3| He then designs the restoration on one of the CEREC units with a range of crown selections,
and chooses the one that will go best with the rest of Your teeth.

4| The CEREC milling machine creates the restoration out of a ceramic block.

5| The restoration is bonded directly to Your tooth. This way the tooth will be restored to its
natural beauty and strength, for You to benefit from for years to come.

Simple as that! Amazing, isn’t it?

A first Patient visit

dentist cambridge — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:47:54 +0000

Here at Dentastique we are happy to answer the enquiries You might have.
But if You ever wondered what happens after Your call or Your email to us,
I am going to explain how a new patient and Free consultation visit
works here at Dentastique.

When You contact us regarding an enquiry for a treatment, we make our very
best to find a suitable time for Your Free consultation. It is very important for
us that You have enough time for this, so Dr. Abdah can give You his full attention.

On the day of the appointment, Dr. Abdah and his assistant nurse, Emma, prepares
the surgery for the coming consultation depending on what kind of consultation it is.
When You arrive we will kindly ask You to fill in a quick form. When that is done, Dr. Abdah
will greet You with a huge smile, and I can personally assure You that if You felt a bit nervous
about Your visit, it will be as vanished by now.

After the consultation we would be more than happy to welcome You to the Dentastique Family,
and also be part of your exciting journey towards the smile of your dreams!

Never hesitate to givs us a call on 01223 840621 or send us an email on info@dentastique.co.uk

A Cambridge University student gets her Invisalign fitted

dentist cambridge — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:44:54 +0000

After a lot of hard work from Dr. Abdah’s team and also from Invisalign’s technicians, who does the treatment simulations in USA, and the courier who carefully and effectively transfer the Invisalign boxes to our practice, it is finally time for one of our excited patients fittings.

Is it a day that she has been looking forward to, and she can not wait to try her new aligners on and start her journey towards the smile of her dreams!

After our patient has her aligners in place, Emma is there to answer any questions she might have. The most common questions regarding Invisalign that we get here at Dentastique are questions like; Is the treatment going to be sensitive? The answer to that is that most people experiences tooth soreness for a few days, or sometimes just even an hour or so. But this is normal – and it means that the aligners are doing their job!

Another common question that Emma gets is about what you should and should not eat and drink during your Invisalign treatment. And here is another advantage with choosing Invisalign over traditional orthodontics; You can eat and drink whatever you want, because you easily remove your aligners when you are about to eat or drink something other than water.

To make things even clearer and easier, Emma gives the patient an Invisalign presentation box, which contains everything you need to know about Invisalign. In the box you can find a leaflet with do’s and dont’s, aligners for your treatment and also retainers to wear after the treatment is finished. And there is more to it!

Here at Dentastique we also treat our Invisalign patients with a Free whitening. When these patients see these life changing results in the end of their treatment, we want them to get something extra, like a brighter whiter smile that completes this amazing journey that they have taken. And what can be better than a new dazzling smile?

The results of Invisalign treatment for a lady who works in Soham

dentist cambridge — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:10:59 +0000

The patient had been wearing her invisalign for a total of 9 months now, and after only a few visits to our practice to change over the retainers , add atttachments and also Dr. Abdah would do some inter proximal reduction to make very small spaces between the teeth, this is to allow space for the teeth to move. Today it was time to have the attachments removed and her teeth polished. Dr. Abdah was definately very happy with the outcome. The patients teeth were looking very nice and straight, she was exceedingly happy with her new smile. After Dr. Abdah polishes the teeth, he then took impressions, that would be sent to a special lab who would make retainers, which are plastic templates that keep teeth in place. Dentastique offers patients a Free consultation if they are interested in finding out more about the Invisalign treatment. Dr. Abdah asked the patient to book a follow up appointment in two weeks, to get her new retainers fitted, and of course at that moment she will be entitled to FREE Whitening!! As most patients(depending on their needs) will get a free whiteninig (worth over 450 pounds) with the Invisalign treatment. The patient was thrilled.

A patient living in cambridge city would like to improve her smile with an implant

dentist cambridge — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:46:02 +0000

A lady who had been a patient at the surgery for many years has decided that she would like an implant in the front of her mouth, in the gap where a tooth had been extracted by a previous dentist years before. She has been wearing a denture, but now has decided that she would like a permanent solution. Dentures can be very difficult to use, and they never will replace a missing tooth, unlike implants which are strong and are aesthetically pleasing. Dr. Abdah had designated a very long appointment for this particular case as the results of her Digital OPG Xray showed that there was traces of Amalgam inside the gum which needed to be carefully removed. Before the procedure Dr. Abdah explained that until he opens the area and cleans out all of the amalgam and measures the density of the bone he will not know if it is possible to place and implant instantly. Dr. Abdah explained that if the implant is not possible today he would clean out the amalgam and graft the area with substitute bone and then cover this with a membrane. After six months the bone would be more dense and the mouth would then be ready for an implant. Dr. Abdah was definitely surprised to see so much amalgam inside the gum, The amalgam was everywhere, he explained to the patient that due to that his main concern today would definitely be to clean the area and make it ready for an implant in six months time. He explained the potential risks of having amalgam embedded in the bone. The other major reason to remove this amalgam is that it can potentially cause precancerous areas in the mouth. Dr. Abdah has a Velscope machine that checks areas under the cheeks, tongue gums and all around the mouth for any changes in the tissue. He uses this device on every patient who has a routine check up. After two and a half hours of intense work, and a lot of cleaning Dr. Abdah had finished the procedure. As he had previously explained the area should be ready in approximately six months. Dr. Abdah will see the patient for the removal of stitches in ten days. Dr. Abdah also asked Wendy to book another long appointment in six months time, to place the implants. The story will continue……

A Perfect Smile for a patient attending a dental surgery in Trumpington

dentist cambridge — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:09:52 +0000

After weeks of planning and Dr. Abdah making a wax model of this gentleman’s teeth, as a simulation for the treatment, it was time to start the cosmetic makeover. On this gentleman’s first appointment his wife came along to Dentastique with him to help with the decision making. Dr. Abdah had taken some alginate impressions of his mouth in order for the technician to make some study models. As you can see Dr. Abdah explained, I have shaped your teeth, and worked extensively on this model and towards the back of your mouth there is absolutely no space to place any implants. I think that the first thing to do would be to work on your smile zone. It would mean a selection of crowns, bridges and two new veneers, to give you a perfect smile. Unfortunately the upper right Lateral Incisor is sitting in such a way that it actually needs extracting. Dr. Abdah firstly took time to make the teeth in wax on the study model in order to achieve the best results today. During today’s appointment Dr. Abdah shaped the five front teeth and then extracted the out of place tooth. He then made really nice temporary teeth, using a rubber mould that he made from the wax teeth. At the end of the treatment today, the patients wife was happily surprised to see her husbands makeover. Dr. Abdah will see the patient in three months to carry on with the treatment plan.