“Our family loves how high-tech the office is. Dr. Melissa keeps up with the latest trends in dentistry to give us the best service.”

Technology

Whether you need a new filling, need to replace an old filling, would like to enhance your appearance or require more extensive treatment, our modern dental technology ensures your smile will be restored to comfortable function and beautiful esthetics. Ask Dr. Melissa about the many investments our office has made to ensure your visit is more comfortable!

We are constantly striving to provide our patients with the finest dental care available. Our investment in advanced technology means a long-term investment in your future good health. State-of-the-art technology invites informed decision making, and enables patients to make wise choices concerning their oral health. Dr. Melissa Jarrell offers the latest dental technology for your benefit.

Laser dentistry has been used for many years to treat several different dental conditions. At our office, Dr. Melissa uses two different dental lasers to treat your individual needs. Some of the procedures performed with a laser include:

Treatment of cavities
Desensitization of teeth
Flapless bony crown lengthening
Pain relief of ulcerations
Remove excess gum tissue
Remove gum lesions for biopsy
Remove frenums

X-rays assist in the detection of cavities between the teeth that may not be visible in the mouth. Cavities that are just beginning can also be detected earlier on an X-ray so your treatment becomes less invasive and less costly.

At Family and Cosmetic Dentistry of Kokomo, we use digital radiography, a computerized process. Until recently, having dental X-rays taken was an uncomfortable, cumbersome procedure, and it would take up to 10 minutes to develop the film. Now, all we do is place a sensor next to your tooth, and within seconds your X-ray is displayed clearly on a computer screen. Because of the brief exposure time, the amount of radiation is reduced by up to 90%. This digital process is highly efficient; too, because once the X-ray image is on our screen, we can enhance it for a more accurate diagnosis, save it for instant retrieval, and send it to insurance companies or dental specialists.

Comfort
Keeping you comfortable during your treatment is one of our top priorities. That’s why we’ve invested in an anesthetic delivery system called the Comfort Control Syringe. This precision delivery technology allows us to provide you with a continuous, steady level of comfort, and its disposable cartridge sheaths mean a safe, sterile procedure.

Control
Even the most carefully trained professional would find it tough to administer medication as accurately as the Comfort Control Syringe’s pre-programmed system. That’s why we like its special delivery: we simply determine ahead of time the particular amount of anesthetic you’ll require, and let the system control the rate of delivery. This gives us the freedom to concentrate on carrying out your procedure, while still monitoring the rate and timing of each injection through a digital readout.

Dr. Jarrell uses Profound Pre-Numbing Gel before all injections. This is a topical anesthetic gel that “pre numbs” the tissue before a dental injection is given. We do all we can to make the numbing process as comfortable as possible.

Computerized Smile Imaging

Using photographs of your own teeth, we can create a high tech “morph” of what your smile could look like with proposed treatment.

Intra-Oral Camera

We want you to be well informed about all aspects of your dental health, so we’ve invested in an intra-oral video camera. It’s just about the size of a pen, and it allows you to see broken fillings, gum problems, and small cracks in teeth-just as we see them. This special camera lets us zoom in on one tooth magnified to 25 times actual size or we can give you a “tour” of the inside of your mouth.

The intra-oral camera can reveal a problem while it is still relatively simple to treat. The full-color images you can view on the computer screen give you the knowledge you need to make informed decisions regarding your dental health.

Our computer system is designed to efficiently manage the most complex information in the dental industry. Our system handles treatment and payment options. We make sure our computer system takes care of the technicalities so you are provided with the most up-to-date information available.