Your Go-To General and Cosmetic Dentist in Livonia, MI
The practice of Dr. Jeffrey Forrest, DDS happily offers a wide range of available dental services in order to more effectively serve all our patients — we can even typically provide every type of dental service without having to refer you to outside specialists! This flexibility saves you time and keeps your total dental care within one practice with your Novi dentist of choice. Our practice emphasizes total preventive care for our patients, which begins with regular hygiene visits, check-ups, and continued home oral health routines.
Our practice also provides the highest-quality services for restoring mouths that have been damaged by dental disease and injury, as well as common problems that require cosmetic dentistry. As your Livonia dentist, our primary goal for our patients is to achieve and maintain optimum oral health for life through advances in techniques and technologies, and by maintaining scheduled dental exams.
Fillings | Root Canals | Tooth Extractions | Crowns and Bridges
Fillings
Sometimes, despite our best efforts, damage can occur to our teeth which can require a filling to be completed by your Novi dentist. The purpose of a filling is to replace and restore your tooth structure that has been damaged due to decay or fracture. We achieve this by replacing old, broken-down amalgam or metal fillings — that contain traces of mercury — with white composite fillings that restore your smile and teeth to a more natural look and feel, while preventing further damage to your tooth.
With today’s advancements, patients no longer have to suffer the embarrassment of unsightly and unhealthy silver/mercury fillings, or metal margins of the past. Eliminate the dark, black appearance in your teeth with discreet, state-of-the-art resin or porcelain filling materials.
Root Canals
A root canal is a procedure performed by your Novi and Livonia dentist that extracts decayed pulp from the central part of the tooth, reshapes the canal, and replaces it with strengthening filler.
A cavity is the result of superficial decay of the outermost layer — the enamel — of the tooth. Left long enough, this decay can burrow further into the deeper reaches of the tooth, causing extensive and painful damage to your tooth structure. When the damage goes beyond what can be treated with a filling, your dentist in Novi can perform a root canal (or endodontics), preserving the tooth and retaining its original integrity; thereby, saving a tooth that in the past would have to have been pulled.
This procedure involves:
- The patient undergoes anesthesia.
- A dental dam is used to isolate the tooth.
- The tooth is opened to allow for removal of infected or dead dental pulp.
- The tooth is comprehensively cleaned, including any cracks and canals.
- With special tools, the doctor reshapes the canals.
- The tooth is filled again with cutting edge biocompatible filling material.
- A temporary covering is used to cover the access opening.
- Patients must see their regular dentist quickly for a custom restoration of the tooth.