Suwanee Dental Care now offers OraVerse®, the first and only local anesthesia reversal agent

Numbness associated with dental procedures can be gone twice as fast!

We are now offering OraVerse to patients who don’t want that lingering numbness after local anesthetics. After administrating OraVerse, a patient can return to normal sensation twice as fast. In clinical trials, patients have reported a return as quickly as 30 minutes after receiving OraVerse. For details visit http://www.oraverse.com/

OraVerse is the first and only local anesthesia reversal agent that accelerates the return to normal sensation and function for patients who want to avoid the unwanted and unnecessary lingering soft tissue numbness following routine dental procedures. The first-in-class product was officially launched earlier this year by the San Diego based company Novalar Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

The average duration of soft tissue numbness following the use of a local dental anesthetic is 3-5 hours. Numbness can lead to functional deficits. These deficits can result in difficulty with speaking, smiling, eating, drinking, biting of lip or cheek and uncontrolled drooling as well as give the patient a perceived sense of altered appearance. OraVerse has been proven to return a patient’s normal sensation twice as fast.

OraVerse has an excellent safety profile. There are no contraindications and no known drug interactions with OraVerse.

Come see us and check out Oraverse!

http://www.suwaneedental.com/

Orthodontic Day for One Diva

Mistie and I placed braces on Heather today after she had her interview with Atlanta's CBS TV show, Better Mornings Show with host Tracye Hutchins. Heather has a bite problem, called a psuedo-class III, where the lower teeth hit the upper incisors and that causes the lower jaw to come forward abnormally when she closes, making it appear that she has a "bulldog bite" or as some say, a "Jay Leno bite". What she actually has is not an over-sized lower jaw, like Leno, but rather a deflecting contact on her tooth in the front that makes her jaw slide forward and just appear to be an underbite, bulldog bite.

We are correcting that with orthodontics....and it will be amazing to see the difference in just a few months. Imagine, a solution for a lifetime of biting off balance in just three or four months! In the photo to the right you can see us applying the blue gel that etches the surface of the tooth which in turn give us the ability to attach orthodontic brackets to the teeth for a period of time.

We also want to let you know that the Atlanta Channel 46 CBS video TV segment has been put on the calendar to air on Tuesday March 23^rd.

^{If all goes as planned it will air during the Better Mornings Atlanta show from 5am till 7am at about 5:50am. And the last ten minutes of each of the following shows… the 12noon, the 4pm the 6pm and the 11pm as well.}

Later that day there will be a link to the story on our website on this page…

http://www.cbsatlanta.com/gooddeeds/index.html

After we place the brackets on the teeth, aligning the slots of the brackets so that the teeth move in the desired direction once the flexible orthodontic wire is placed in the mouth, her teeth will begin to move to the correct position and her underbite will gradually be corrected as the teeth move through the bone. Orthodontics works because teeth move through bone when small, constant pressure is applied to a tooth. The jaw bone actually is resorbed on one side of the tooth and is laid down on the other side as the tooth

literally migrates through the solid bone.

Because the lower teeth are in front of the upper teeth, we needed to bring the lower teeth back. This involved removing one tooth and making the size of the arch smaller, like having a smaller diameter circle in effect, so that the lower arch can fit inside the normal upper jaw. Make sense? Orthodontics is about spacial relationships, geometry and is one of the main reasons high school students have to know that stuff...in case they one day become dentists!

GBC News Story: Deserving Divas

Rachel Garrett reports on the beginning of the Deserving Diva process and interviews Dr. Bill Williams of Suwanee Dental Care and Diva Heather Thrompke.

Andy Velo 2010 Promo Video

Andy Velo, local Suwanee artist, graduate of North Gwinnett High School, and Apple Computer guy at the Mall of GA has a new video promo of his band....keep a look out for his band in concert locally at http://andyvelo.com and if you want to help Andy get to Africa for the Kenya Medical Outreach mission this summer, go to http://kenyamo.com to support his trip.

Exciting News from Suwanee Dental Care!

So many exciting things going on at Suwanee Dental Care right now! First of all I hope you know about our Deserving Diva Contest! If you haven't you need to check it out! We are giving away 4 Smile makeovers to 4 lovely Deserving Diva's! We've also have some awesome response with our local community including hair and make up by Revival Salon, clothing & accessories by Ambiance Interiors, skincare by The Cauble Center, and eyecare by Sugarloaf Eyecare. We started treatment with 2 out of 4 of our Diva's. We also have had some news interviews and our first feature on Atlanta Home & Style TV was Saturday! We have more exciting news features to announce soon..

We have had a recent visit from the Toothfairy to the Goddard School. The Toothfairy shared the importance of brushing and good nutrition with the students. They learned about flossing and "sugar bugs" or cavaties. The kids were very excited to see the Toothfairy in person! They had plenty of questions for Miss Lena our Hygienist as well. We showed them how to brush properly too!

We are always look for ways to give back. Our Doctors regularly donate their time to both local and international missions. For more information check out Kenya Medical Outreach run by Dr. Williams and his wife Sheila.

Stay tuned for more exciting news to come at Suwanee Dental Care.