The best dentists in Washington, DC usually recommends teeth whitening as their number one dental procedure to those patients who do not have more serious dental problems.  Teeth can become stained by smoking, drinking tea, coffee or red wine or simply from or oral hygiene – not brushing your teeth every day.

Many people have a fear or even an outright phobia of going to the dentist and so they put it off for years until their smile is literally falling apart.  Their teeth are falling out or breaking and they have pain under their teeth and in their gums.  In order to help the people with dental phobias, dentists have often used sedation dentistry in order to help the patient relax so that neither the patient nor the dentist gets hurt while using sharp instruments – a patient may jerk or push the dentist’s hand away if they feel fearful.

Sedation dentistry can be administered one of several ways; the first is through an IV. However this poses its own problems because many of the dental patients who are afraid of the dentist are also afraid of needles.  There is also a ‘needle free’ IV sedation which is a type of patch which releases the sedation medication through the patient’s skin and works just as well.  There is also nitrous oxide or laughing gas that is breathed in through a tiny tube placed under the nose which renders if a patient is sleepy but not asleep and sometimes laughing and happy.

Besides sedation dentistry and teeth whitening, the best dentist in DC area offers an array of dental procedures for the entire family.

Another newer procedure that dentists are now performing is called Air Abrasion which treats decay with air.  A high powered fine spray of aluminum oxide powder will precisely and gently remove dental decay from one’s teeth without the use of a high-powered drill – and who wouldn’t rather have an air pressured machine than a drill in their mouth?  And the money is about the same price.

The Air Abrasion procedure is accomplished more rapidly and is especially good for treating early signs of decay.  This method of using aluminum oxide powder is completely safe and there is no smell or vibration.