Is Your Anxiety Holding You Back?
Dental fear is the single most common reason patients tell us they waited. It is also one of the easiest things for us to work around.
Patient education
The questions people ask before they call.
Short videos from Dr. Alkanan on the things that actually keep people out of the chair — fear, cost, and not knowing what's possible. None is longer than three and a half minutes.
Fear, time and cost
What stops most people.
In our experience it's almost never that patients don't know they have a problem. It's that something else is in the way.
Time, Money, Fear
The three reasons people put treatment off, and what each one actually costs in the long run.
When teeth are already failing
It is later than you'd like. It is rarely too late.
Two videos for patients who have been told the news is bad, or who are already in a denture and assumed that was the end of it.
Dental Disasters
What can be done when previous dental work has failed, and how these cases are rebuilt.
Stuck in Dentures, Losing Teeth — Not For Long
For patients wearing a denture that moves, or facing losing the rest of an arch. There is a fixed alternative.
How we treat it
The approach, and the equipment.
Why we favour the least invasive option that will actually work, and what the equipment lets us see.
Laser Gum Treatment
Dr. Alkanan on treating gum disease with a laser instead of a scalpel, and the thinking behind a minimally invasive approach.
Is Your Dentist Stuck in the Past Technological Age?
How dental technology has moved on, and what difference modern imaging and equipment make to a result.
The PerioView Endoscope
A micro-camera that lets us see beneath the gumline while we work, rather than relying on feel alone.
Real patients
Three people who were in your position.
If you'd rather hear it from a patient than from a periodontist, that's fair enough.
Ready to talk it through?
Call any of our three offices, or send us a request and we'll get back to you. Phone hours are Monday to Friday, 7am to 3pm.