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Digital Dental x-rays: Improved diagnsos with minimal radiation

     Dental x-rays are digital in our Smithtown office. We are proud that a recent New Your State Inspection found that our office uses the lowest radiation levels in our area! Our new upgraded digital x-ray sensors allow us to lower radiation exposure  up to 98% compared to old fashioned film x-rays.  Dr. Shvartsman can enlarge, zoom in and chance contrast and brightness levels with his Digital X-rays.Read more

Smithtown Dentist Receives the AGD Mastership Award.

      Local Smithtown Dentist, Dr. Alex Shvartsman, has received the prestigious Mastership Award from the Academy of General Dentistry (AGD) this July 2010. He is one of a little over 1% of American Dentists who have achieved this honor. Mastership in the AGD is a symbol of dentistry’s continual journey toward improvement, innovation and progress. 
 
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Dr. Shvartsman's Lecture on Dental Implants

 Dental Implants are considered by most dentists the standard of care for replacing missing teeth.   Dr. Shvartsman has recently given e a lecture on Dental Implant restoration using CEREC CAD/CAM Dentistry.  As the President of the Long Island Dental Forum, the only Long Island based CEREC study club, Dr Shvartsman presented the various ways that Dental Implants can be restored with  CEREC CAD/CAM technology.  Advantages include faster restoration fabrication times and lower cost to the patient. The lecture was well received. Dr.Read more

Options for missing teeth

       Missing some or all of your teeth? You are not alone.  Nearly every American will lose at least one of their functional teeth in their lifetime. People lose teeth for many different reasons. Many times the tooth is too decayed or gum disease is so advanced that the tooth cannot be saved. In addition, teeth can catastrophically fracture especially if the tooth had a large silver-mercury filling, root canal and a post.Read more

Natural cavity prevention: XYLITOL

Natural Tooth Decay prevention with Xylitol is part of Dr. Shvartsman's tooth Decay Prevention Protocol.  Read more

Laser Dentistry at State of the Art Comfort Dentistry

Dr. Shvartsman's dental office is committed to providing you with the most comfortable dental care possible. That is why we offer Laser Dentistry as an alternative to traditional techniques. We currently use 3 different lasers in our laser dental practice.Read more

Tooth regeneration - break-through

Dental implants could soon become a secondary choice for replacing natural teeth. According to new research from the College of Dental Medicine at Columbia University in New York, three-dimensional scaffolds infused with stem cells could yield an anatomically correct tooth in as soon as nine weeks once implanted.
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3-D x-rays now the standard of care at State of the Art Comfort Dentistry

    In his ongoing effort to bring you the best of what dentistry has to offer,  Dr. Shvartsman is the first general dentist on Long Island to offer the benefit of 3-D x-ray scans to his patients.  The Galileos Cone Beam x-ray 3-D scanning system was installed on 5/14/10.
 
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