Elite Smiles Family Dentistry & Orthodontics
24155 Magic Mountain Pkwy
Valencia, California 91355
Phone: 661-222-7724
Contact our Santa Clarita, Palmdale, and Antelope Valley-area office to learn more about dental implants, orthodontics, or sedation dentistry.
Santa Clarita, Palmdale, and Antelope Valley-area Dental Implants, Orthodontics, and Sedation Dentistry
At Elite Smiles Family Dentistry & Orthodontics we are devoted to helping patients maintain excellent dental hygiene and function. Serving the Santa Clarita, Palmdale, and Antelope Valley area, we offer patients a full range of general dentistry treatments, including dental implants, orthodontics, sedation dentistry, and other dental treatments designed to maintain dental health. Whether you need routine cleanings, dental restorations, or even orthodontic treatment, we can help you achieve your dental goals. Below is a list of general dentistry procedures we can offer you.
- Dental Implants
- Orthodontics
- Sedation Dentistry
- Pediatric (Children’s) Dentistry
- Endodontics
- Root Canal Therapy
- Oral Surgery (Tooth Extractions including Wisdom Teeth)
- Periodontics
- Dentures with Invisible Clasps and Overdentures
- Routine Dental Visits
Dental Implants
Patients who are missing a tooth or multiple teeth and are seeking stronger, more durable restorative options should consider dental implants. Available at our office serving the Palmdale, Santa Clarita, and Antelope Valley area, dental implants are small titanium posts that are surgically placed into the jawbone and gum tissue to provide an anchor for a fixed porcelain crown or denture. These artificial tooth restorations are precisely color-matched to your existing teeth, making them virtually indistinguishable. Since dental implants are securely placed into the bone and gum tissue, the artificial tooth looks more realistic and functions more like a regular tooth.
Implant-supported dentures are widely considered a vast improvement over conventional dentures. Dental implants provide superior stability as well prevent bone loss and gum recession. Implant-supported dentures allow your dentures to snap into place, making them sturdy and secure. Implant dentistry patients can smile and chew with confidence.
If you live in the Palmdale, Santa Clarita, or Antelope Valley area and would like to know if dental implants are right for you, contact our Valencia dental office to arrange a consultation today. After a careful evaluation, Dr. Koutsoukos can develop a dental treatment plan that can restore beauty and function to your smile.
Orthodontics
Orthodontic treatment allows our Valencia cosmetic dentists to straighten the teeth of children and adults, giving them beautiful smiles. At our Santa Clarita-area office, we tailor our orthodontics to the needs of our patients. We understand the different dental priorities of both children and adults and cater to their unique needs.
Children’s Orthodontics
In order to take full advantage of natural bone growth, it is important for children to receive an orthodontic examination when they are seven or eight years old. By the age of 10, most bone growth is already complete and, although we can still straighten the teeth, in many cases it is no longer possible to create proper facial symmetry without surgery. When a face does not have proper proportions, a nose might look too big, there might be a gummy smile, or a weak chin. Caught early enough, many of these issues can be corrected or at least minimized with orthodontics.
Another benefit of early orthodontic care is that we rarely need to extract any permanent teeth to straighten the smile. Our office has seen many adult patients with breathing problems, snoring problems, obstructive sleep apnea, and TMJ that we believe would have been less severe if their permanent teeth had not been extracted for orthodontic reasons when they were kids.
Adult Orthodontics
For adults, it is never too late to undergo orthodontic treatment in order to straighten your teeth and improve the appearance of your smile. In fact, the most common comment we hear from our adult patients who have received orthodontic treatment is, “Why did I wait so long?” Elite Smiles Family Dentistry & Orthodontics offer adults a variety of orthodontic treatments, including traditional braces, removable appliances, and Invisalign®. When you schedule a consultation at our office, we will go over your treatment options and help you determine the best course of action to meet your needs. So if straight teeth are what you’ve always wanted, don’t wait any longer. Isn’t it time you loved your smile and how you look in pictures?
Schedule a consultation at our Santa Clarita-area office to learn how orthodontics can help you achieve the smile of your dreams. You can have a straight, beautiful, healthy smile! Contact Elite Smiles Family Dentistry & Orthodontics today.
Sedation Dentistry
Dr. Koutsoukos is trained to provide safe, comfortable, and relaxing sedation dentistry at their office serving the Santa Clarita, Palmdale, and Antelope Valley area. Dental visits can be the cause of great anxiety for some people. Elite Smiles Family Dentistry & Orthodontics offers sleep and sedation dentistry techniques, allowing patients to be relaxed and totally free from anxiety during dental procedures and visits. With our sedation dentistry, a board-certified anesthesiologist will put you to sleep and monitor you. When you wake up, the work is completed.
We can perform an array of restorative dentistry and cosmetic dentistry services, including porcelain veneers, CEREC® one-visit crowns, and tooth-colored fillings, that can restore health and beauty to your mouth while you rest comfortably. We will carefully determine whether you are a candidate for conscious sedation prior to the procedure. When a patient is placed under sedation during a dental procedure, we meticulously monitor that patient’s vital signs. We’ll take every step to make sure you are comfortable, relaxed, and above all, safe during each step of the dental process. If you would like to learn more about sedation dentistry, contact our Santa Clarita-area dentists to schedule a consultation.
Pediatric (Children’s) Dentistry
What your children eat affects their teeth. Sugars (found in cake, cookies, candy, milk and juice) and starches (found in pretzels and potato chips) can cause tooth decay. Add to this the fact that it is more difficult to clean babies' and children's teeth and you can see why debris tends to remain in children's teeth, resulting in bacteria growth and, ultimately, tooth decay.
Although baby teeth (deciduous or primary teeth) are eventually replaced with permanent teeth, healthy baby teeth are fundamental to a child's overall health and development.
From six months to 24 months, children begin teething in earnest, indicated by irritability, biting on objects, drooling and ear pulling. As a parent, you can help teething progress by using strategies such as massaging your child's gums, offering a chilled teething ring or cold, wet washcloth and asking your dentist for a teething ointment recommendation.
By three years of age, most if not all baby teeth have erupted. Soon after four years, spaces for permanent teeth begin to appear as the jaw, supporting bone structure and facial bones begin to grow.
From six to 12, it is typical for your child to have both baby teeth and permanent teeth in their mouth.
Endodontics
Endodontic procedures are used in the diagnosis and treatment of oral pain involving the pulp and periradicular area (just outside or around the root of the tooth origin). Pulp therapy, such as pulpotomy, is a common endodontic procedure in which dental pulp is removed from the pulp chamber. The nonsurgical treatment of root canals, especially in difficult cases such as teeth with blocked, narrow or unusually positioned canals, also is a major part of endodontic therapy.
Endodontic treatment may also be required for surgical removal of diseased or abnormal (pathologic) tissues, repair procedures associated with the surgical removal of pathologic tissues, repair of cracked teeth or the replacement (replantation) of teeth knocked out (avulsed) by injury.
Additional endodontic procedures include:
• Surgical removal of tooth structure, such as an apicoectomy, or root-end resection (the removal of the root tip and the surrounding infected tissue of an abscessed tooth), hemisection (the process of cutting a tooth with two roots in half) and bicuspidization (procedure to change tricuspid valve into a functioning bicuspid valve)
• Root-end filling
• Endodontic implants, which extend through the root canal into the periapical bone structure (tip or apex of the root of a tooth), whereas other types of tooth implants are anchored directly in the gums or jawbones
• Bleaching of dentin and enamel
• Retreatment of teeth previously treated endodontically
• Placement of posts and/or cores to save and strengthen teeth
Root Canal Therapy
Each tooth contains a hollow central chamber that houses soft tissue that is sometimes referred to as dental pulp. A tooth receives nutrients through the nerves and blood vessels that lead into the pulp chamber. In some instances, a cavity or serious dental injury may lead to the infection or inflammation of the dental pulp, often resulting in severe pain. If untreated, a patient may lose the affected tooth. We perform root canal therapy to treat the infection and save the tooth from extraction. During treatment, the affected pulp is removed from the tooth and the pulp chamber is filled with a safe, inert material.
Oral Surgery (Tooth Extractions including Wisdom Teeth)
• An oral surgeon is an important link in your referral network of primary care providers. When functional dental concerns – such as keeping teeth, overcoming congenital growth issues, controlling serious oral disease and treating trauma-related damage – supersede esthetics, oral surgeons are the appropriate dental specialists with whom to seek a referral.
• There are some cases — such as when a tooth’s root is damaged beyond repair or when a patient has wisdom teeth that are impacting his or her own teeth — in which a tooth extraction is required to ensure the health and function of your mouth. We may also perform a tooth extraction as preparation for another dental procedure such as dental implants, implant-supported dental appliances, or dentures.
• Wisdom teeth are an issue for most people in their teens and twenties. There just isn’t room in their mouths for these teeth. Often these extractions are beyond the scope of most dental offices, but here at Elite Smiles Family Dentistry & Orthodontics, we do these extractions on a routine basis, saving our patients the need of going to another practitioner, such as an oral surgeon.
Periodontics
Periodontics is a dental specialty that includes the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the tissues surrounding and supporting the teeth. These dental specialists are called periodontists, and they also are involved with periodontal plastic surgery and placing dental implants.
Periodontal diseases are bacterial infections of the gums, bone and periodontal ligament (fibers that support the teeth and hold them in the jaw). They destroy the gums and supporting bone that hold your teeth in your mouth. As a result, teeth may loosen and fall out or need to be removed and replaced with dental bridges or implants.
Periodontal plastic surgery may be required to cover exposed tooth root surfaces, correct gum and jawbone indentations or reshape and repair the gum tissue. Dental implants are placed to provide an artificial tooth root to support dental restorations that will later be created by your dentist or prosthodontist.
Dentures with Invisible Clasps and Overdentures
Patients who are missing several teeth or even all of their teeth experience a number of problems related to bite strength, chewing, speech, and facial aesthetics. Dentures are an excellent way of treating those problems and restoring the function and appearance of your mouth. At Elite Smiles Family Dentistry & Orthodontics, we offer dentures that are held in place by metal clasps or tooth-colored clasps, the latter contributing to a more natural appearance. If a patient is eligible, we can also provide completely invisible clasps, also referred to as overdentures. Overdentures snap into place, so they are much firmer and retentive compared to traditional dentures. When you visit our office for a consultation, we will determine which type of denture is best suited to fit your needs.
Routine Dental Visits
Regular visits to the dentist are important if you want to maintain the health of your mouth. When you visit Elite Smiles Family Dentistry & Orthodontics, we will check your teeth, take x-rays, examine the health of your jawbone and other facial structures related to oral health, check for oral cancer, help treat headaches, look for cavities and other potential dental problems, and discuss ways you can improve your smile. Each visit will take into account your dental and medical history, age, and any previous dental work, all important factors in determining the best way of maintaining a healthy and beautiful smile.
Contact Elite Smiles Family Dentistry & Orthodontics
Our dentists can utilize sedation dentistry to safely and effectively transform your smile. Contact our Santa Clarita and Antelope Valley-area office to learn more about dental implants, orthodontics, or any of our other general dentistry services.