A prosthodontist-led practice in East Bridgewater built for full mouth rehabilitation, implants and complex restorative work, with the design software, the 3D scanner and a five-axis milling machine in the building.
In most practices the dentist takes an impression and a laboratory technician somewhere else decides what your teeth will look like. Here the prosthodontist who examines you also designs the restoration and mills it, from a 3D scan rather than an estimate. It is the same hand from the diagnosis to the finished tooth. And sometimes the honest answer is that nothing needs doing yet.
Complex restorative work is led by Dr. Il Won Chang, prosthodontist
Board certified prosthodontist, and Assistant Professor of Prosthodontics at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine.
Rebuilding a whole bite to one plan rather than repairing teeth one at a time. Where years of wear have shortened the teeth and closed the bite, the height is designed, tested in temporary form, and only then made permanent.
Single implants through to a fixed full arch. Placement is planned against a 3D scan, so bone height, bone width and nerve position are known quantities before anything starts.
Your crown is designed by the prosthodontist and manufactured on the premises. Where the case allows that turns two appointments into one, with no weeks spent in a temporary.
Front teeth are a design problem before they are a manufacturing one. Shape, proportion and shade get decided with you, and previewed before anything is irreversible.
Older work that has decayed at the margin, fractured or lost a supporting tooth. Treatment starts by finding why it failed, because replacing it without that tends to repeat the result.
A large plan you are unsure about, or several conflicting ones. Bring the images and the quotes; you will get an assessment even when it is that less treatment is needed.
Exams, cleanings, low dose digital X-rays and the unglamorous routine care that keeps larger work off your calendar.
A broken tooth, a crown that came off, or pain that will not settle. Call the office, describe what happened, and we will tell you honestly how soon you should be seen.
Every prosthesis we make is designed and manufactured on the premises: crowns, bridges, onlays, veneers, implant prostheses and dentures. Nothing is posted to an outside laboratory.
Photographs of our own patients and our own laboratory work, published with permission. Every mouth is different, so treat these as examples of the work rather than a prediction of your result.
Single implants through to a fixed full arch. Placement is planned against a three dimensional scan, and the prosthesis is designed and made in the building.
Designed by the prosthodontist who examined the patient and milled in the practice laboratory, which is what keeps the shape, the shade and the margin under one roof.
Front teeth are a design problem before they are a manufacturing one. Shape, proportion and shade are agreed with the patient and previewed before anything is irreversible.
Complete and partial dentures for patients who are not implant candidates, or who are not ready for surgery yet.
Amann Girrbach Ceramill Motion 3, five-axis
This is laboratory-grade equipment: a five-axis machine that cuts your restoration from a solid block of ceramic. Five axes matter because the cutting tool can approach the block from effectively any angle, which is what makes the undercuts and curves of a natural tooth reproducible rather than approximated.
Most practices that advertise a mill send the design to an outside technician first. Here the prosthodontist who examined you does the design himself, and the machine is downstream of that decision rather than a substitute for it.
Vatech panoramic and cone beam computed tomography imaging
A flat X-ray shows a shadow. A low dose 3D scan shows bone height, bone width, and where the nerves and sinuses actually sit. Implants get planned against that scan, which is the difference between measuring and estimating.
Every prosthesis we place is designed and manufactured on the premises. The scan, the plan, the design and the milling happen under one roof and, for the restorative work, in one pair of hands. Nothing is lost in a courier bag or in translation to a technician who has never seen your face, and when something needs adjusting it is adjusted by the person who designed it.
Dentistry has a reputation for finding work. We would rather be the practice you trust when we say nothing needs doing today.
The treatment rooms were rebuilt with imaging at chairside, so the photo or the scan goes up on the screen in front of you. If we recommend a crown, you should be able to see the reason for it yourself.
Watching a small, stable problem is often the right call, and we will say so when it is. Conservative does not mean slow. It means not removing tooth structure we do not have to.
Crowns and implants are long term work. We would rather map out the full sequence at the start than discover it halfway through.
On Route 18, a short drive from Bridgewater, Whitman, Hanson, Halifax, Brockton and Easton.
Tell us who you are and what the visit is about. A member of the team will call you to find a time. If you are in pain or something has broken, calling is faster.
Call (508) 257-1918