Our Services
Dental work must look great and must feel great. Any dental work must function as well as the natural teeth or tooth structure. Our dentist, Dr. Moiceanu, and his staff are committed to provide excellent dental service, that is appropriate to the patient’s situation, reasonably affordable to the patient, and delivered in a pain free state as much as possible.
Therefore, great care and deliberation go into oral diagnosis and in the treatment plan.
As many dental conditions may take a long time to develop, successful treatment may take a long and carefully selected road to success. Dr. Moiceanu will take extra steps to ensure that each patient fully understands the treatment proposed to remedy the respective dental condition. Patient education includes diagnostic steps, audio visual materials, and display models. Ultimately, the decision to have the work done – after informed consent – rests with the patient.
Our dental office utilizes state-of-the-art materials and procedures. The following is a partial lists of services offered in our practice:
- Preventive Care and Preventive Treatment – Procedures used to maintain the optimum health of the dental structure, such as prophylaxis and fluoride treatment, sealants, space maintainers, etc. Our dental hygiene program will keep your gums healthy with regularly scheduled cleanings, customized to meet your needs oral hygiene instructions and regular checkups.
- General Dentistry– We perform root canals (endodontics), crowns, bridges, extractions, dentures (partial, full or implant assisted). We also manage gum disease including deep scaling/cleaning and gum surgery for more severe cases.
- Cosmetic Dentistry– Nothing proclaims health and success like a smile from a beautiful set of healthy teeth. Dr. Moiceanu’s artistic methods and working with excellent dental laboratories provide the most esthetic results. Porcelain veneering of teeth will help with a multitude of cosmetic issues ranging from discoloration due to deep tetracycline staining, to irregular shaped or sized teeth, to minor crowding or spacing of teeth. Porcelain crowns, veneers, inlays, and onlays are the most natural-looking restorations available today.
- We are offering INVISALIGN ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT through CLEAR BRACES. This is the Esthetic Solution to the Conventional Orthodontic Treatment. Visit the web site above for more in-depth knowledge and understanding.
- Dental Emergencies– Our dentist, Dr. Moiceanu, takes pride in providing first hand emergency services to our patients of record, no matter what day in the week or time in the day it is.
- Implant Dentistry– The ideal treatment for missing teeth. Depending on the quality of bone, implant dentistry is an excellent way to restore a missing tooth or teeth because it does not involve filing down of adjacent teeth as in a bridge preparation. The implants are natural looking and function like a real tooth.Dr Moiceanu is a Fellow of the International Congress of Oral Implantologists and a graduate of the prestigious Misch Institute for dental Implantology. He places and restores the implants himself without the need of referral to an outside doctor.
- Dentistry for Children– Our dental office takes pride in providing a friendly and suitable environment for the little ones in need of dental services. Dr. Moiceanu and his staff love working with children. They ensure that parents are completely aware and fully understand the dental treatment necessary for their children.
These are some of the services we offer. Please check with our dentist and the staff for any additional services, questions, or suggestions that you may have.
- Sleep Apnea - is a sleep disorder characterized by pauses in breathing during sleep. Each episode, called an apnea lasts long enough so that one or more breaths are missed, and such episodes occur repeatedly throughout sleep. The standard definition of any apneic event includes a minimum 10-second interval between breaths, with either a neurological arousal/awakening or a blood oxygen desaturation of 3–4% or greater, or both arousal and desaturation. Sleep apnea is diagnosed with an overnight sleep test called a polysomnogram, or a “sleep study”.
Clinically significant levels of sleep apnea are defined as five or more episodes per hour of any type of apnea (from the polysomnogram).
There are three distinct forms of sleep apnea: central, obstructive, and complex (i.e., a combination of central and obstructive) constituting 0.4%, 84% and 15% of cases respectively.
Breathing is interrupted by the lack of respiratory effort in central sleep apnea.
In obstructive sleep apnea, breathing is interrupted by a physical block to airflow despite respiratory effort.
In complex (or “mixed”) sleep apnea, there is a transition from central to obstructive features during the events themselves.
Regardless of type, the individual with sleep apnea is rarely aware of having difficulty breathing, even upon awakening. Sleep apnea is recognized as a problem by others witnessing the individual during episodes or is suspected because of its effects on the body . Symptoms may be present for years (or even decades) without identification, during which time the sufferer may become conditioned to the daytime sleepiness and fatigue associated with significant levels of sleep disturbance.
Dr. Moiceanu is an OSA patient that went from a severe form through surgery to a moderate case. Because of the unpleasantness of the CPAP machine he decided to make for himself a dental device called mandibular repositioning device. He uses the FDA approved Klearway appliance. He recommends this device to his patients.
Dr Moiceanu is a member of the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine
- Sedation Dentistry- Dentistry does not have to be a painful or scary procedure.
A visit to the dentist can be a positive experience, even when treatment is necessary. Millions of Americans are afraid of the dentist. They avoid dental care regardless of the costs, simplicity of treatment or affordability. But it no longer has to be that way. Modern dentistry offers safe, effective, and comfortable treatments, to anxious and fearful patients. You may have heard this treatment called anxiety-free dentistry or relaxation dentistry. The best and most accurate name is oral sedation dentistry.
Most fears develop in childhood, so odds are you have carried your dread of the dentist for years. You avoid receiving care and as a result, your dental health deteriorates. When you are no longer able to stand the pain or discomfort and finally seek treatment, extensive restorative work is required. That means more time in the dental chair, more procedures, and more expense, which only furthers your anxiety. It is a bad cycle that can be broken by modern sedation dentistry.
Our dentists are trained in providing sedation dentistry. A variety of protocols are available that can be customized to each patient’s physiological and pharmacological needs. So even if you have a unique medical condition, there still may be options. A number of medications have been developed especially for these purposes, subjected to rigorous research and testing for efficacy and safety. Some of these can even help you remember little of the visit, preventing the sounds and smells from lingering in your thoughts.
Sedation dentistry is not only for fearful patients. If you are a busy individual that cannot fit multiple dental appointments in your busy schedule, sedation dentistry is for you. Typically, during a sedation appointment we can accomplish procedures normally scheduled in 3-4 regular visits.
The first appointment will typically consist of having x-rays taken and a discussion and conversation of the findings with the dentist. Than, depending on the treatment needed, options of sedation will be discussed. On the scheduled day of the procedure a companion will need to bring you to the office and pick you up. Depending on the protocol chosen, medication is administered prior to arriving at our office, in our office or a combination. We do offer Nitrous Sedation (Laughing Gas)
You will not be asleep but you will feel relaxed and most likely will not remember much of the procedure.
If you are interested in having dental care under sedation, please call our office.