Advanced Technologies & Systems We Utilize:
Intraoral Camera
Using this camera, we can give you a “tour” of your mouth on a TV screen (which is really neat). We also use the intraoral camera to guide you through your diagnosis and treatment options, keeping you at the center of your treatment plans. We want you to feel informed every step of the way, so you can make smart choices for your oral health and smile.
Digital X-rays
Digital x-rays are a fast and comfortable diagnostic tool that helps us to accurately assess your oral health needs. If it has been some time since you sat in a dental chair for a mouth x-ray, we think you will be pleasantly surprised with the speed and ease of digital x-rays! Plus, they require no chemical processing and emit up to 90% less radiation than traditional x-rays, making digital dental technology the smart choice for both your smile and the environment. We also employ digital imagining before treatment begins to show you how fabulous your new and improved smile will look.
Tooth-Colored Fillings
Tooth-colored composite fillings can be adhesively held in place, or “bonded.” Because they can be bonded to teeth, composite fillings allow for more conservative preparations where less healthy tooth structure is removed. This often results in smaller fillings than that of amalgam (silver) fillings, and they are more natural looking. The tooth-colored material is cured with an intense light and the surface is shaped and polished to match the tooth, rendering the final restoration virtually undetectable to the eye and very natural feeling in the mouth.
One-Visit Crowns & More with CERECŪ
With CEREC®, we can help you maintain and improve your smile more conveniently than ever before. This high-tech system allows us to provide crowns, inlays, onlays, and veneers completed and placed in just one office visit! CEREC enables us to restore teeth using a strong ceramic that matches the natural color of your other healthy teeth. Using a special camera, we take an optical image of the tooth to be repaired. We then digitally design the restoration, working from the image. The computer-aided manufacturing that follows is extremely precise, ensuring a terrific fit when we bond the newly milled restoration to the tooth—all in the same visit. As an added bonus, this one-visit digital process eliminates the need for messy impressions and temporary crowns. Come in and see what a difference this technology can make in your dental care and smile.
Straight Teeth in Only 6 Months!
Dr. Gilday is one of the first dentists in Oregon to offer Six Month Smiles™ Braces, a fast and affordable way to move adults’ teeth (15 years and older) to their most beautiful position. With tooth-colored brackets and thin, barely noticeable wires, they are a subtle and comfortable way to reposition teeth in months, not years! Whether your teeth are crowded, overlapped, or have spaces between them, Six Month Smiles Braces can give you the straight and great smile that you’ve always wanted.
LumineersŪ System Veneers
If you're ready for a life changing smile makeover but are worried that your teeth are hopelessly chipped, cracked, or discolored, Dr. Gilday has an easy solution. Lumineers® system veneers are a comfortable, conservative option in cosmetic dentistry that can give you the radiant smile you've always wanted in as few as two or three appointments. Lumineers are thin sheets of porcelain that are bonded permanently to the front of your teeth. They require minimal preparation, which most often means no shots, and they look and feel like natural, beautiful teeth! Call today to schedule your FREE cosmetic consultation.
Professional Teeth Whitening
In addition to giving you the benefit of a cleaner looking and more attractive smile, whiter teeth can also boost your confidence and enhance your self-esteem. Teeth whitening can lead to healthier teeth, too, because when your teeth look better, you tend to take better care of them to keep them looking great. Ask us about your teeth brightening options at your next visit. We offer both convenient take home teeth whitening solutions (with custom trays) and one-visit in-office whitening.
Less Time, More Comfort with Isolite®
Happy patients spend less time in the dental chair with more comfort. To help achieve this, we use the Isolite® System. This system has a soft and flexible mouthpiece to help you rest your jaw and shield your tongue and cheek during procedures. It has a light to illuminate your mouth from the inside, so treatments are not only shadowless but also more efficient. The Isolite even eliminates the need for cotton rolls and rinse breaks—all because your comfort is paramount! Come in and experience the difference.
Laser Dentistry
With water-powered laser technology, Dr. Gilday can perform many dental procedures with more comfort for you than ever before. Laser-assisted decay detection helps us catch cavities in their early stages, which often allows us to use minimally invasive techniques to remove decay and prepare teeth for fillings—all without the need for shots and anesthesia. Laser dentistry also makes it possible for Dr. Gilday to provide a variety of dental treatments that used to require a referral to a specialist, so you won’t have to go to multiple offices to get the care you need.
For Your Comfort
Because every aspect of your dental experience is important to us, we have a number of amenities to make our office feel more like home. We offer complimentary refreshments and internet access in our reception area, TVs and headphones in our treatment rooms to keep you entertained, and hot scented towels to sooth your cheeks after your appointment. You might even forget you’re at the dentist!
