Dental Ozone
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New Dental Ozone Treatment — Pain-Free and Safe
Dental ozone is one of healthcare’s latest advances in the United States. It has been used in Europe for many years. It offers a safe way to treat your cavities and gum disease, reverse decay, and increase your healthy tissue — pain-free.
What is Ozone?
Ozone is one of nature’s most effective killers of viruses, bacteria, and fungi. It’s made up of 3 oxygen atoms and the same when used in your dental care.
This energized oxygen is so powerful that it stops the ability of germs to destroy and reproduce.
When is Dental Ozone Used?
Dental ozone is used for children and adults. It can be helpful for:
- Sensitive teeth
- Pain control
- Teeth whitening
- Tooth decay
- Gum disease
- Cold sores
- Sterilizing
- Bad breath
- Exposed root surfaces
Dr. Chang uses a little handpiece to focus the gas directly on the area that needs it. The treatment usually takes only 60 seconds to 10 minutes.
How is Ozone Better?
Ozone treatment offers you many benefits over the traditional treatments for cavities and gum disease. That’s why we bring it to you. We use it for our dental care too.
- No drilling and filling
- No pain — no injections
- Shorter procedure and faster healing
- No side effects
- Minimally invasive
- Less removal of healthy tooth
- Improves sterilization
- Improves infection control
- Long-lasting results
When you use traditional drilling and filling of cavities, it leaves less of your original healthy tooth. Every time your filling is replaced, it gets bigger. You're left with a weaker tooth that needs continued filling — restoration — or removal.
How is Ozone Good for Teeth Whitening?
Patients often like dental ozone more than bleach to whiten their teeth. The new method usually reduces sensitivity, takes less time, and it’s safer.
How Does Dental Ozone Help Sensitive Roots?
Dental ozone typically gets rid of painful, exposed roots by forming a seal on top of the root. This creates a second layer, preventing pain when you eat and drink. You might feel a little discomfort for 15 to 20 seconds, but then it’s usually gone.
Many patients can eat and drink without pain only 5 to 10 minutes after Dr. Chang treats their teeth.
How Does Ozone Reverse Tooth Decay?
Ozone reverses the tooth decay process by:
- Replacing bad bacteria with good bacteria
- Keeping the bacteria from growing
- Allowing your tooth structure to replace minerals — remineralizing
Early cavities can heal because the ozone kills off the bacteria and changes the chemical environment in your mouth.
Is Dental Ozone Safe?
Dental Ozone is very safe for people and the environment. Did you know that our bodies make it too?
Hospitals have used it for a long time to sterilize operating rooms, treat diseases, and speed healing. It’s also used to sterilize food and water supplies around the world.
Ozone doesn’t harm us when delivered in low concentrations. Plus, Dr. Chang can easily control where and how much he is using. If there’s any leftover gas, it quickly turns into pure oxygen.