Preventative Care
Welcome to Riverside Dental Care in New York City
Our mission at Riverside Dental Care is to work as a team to help you and your family maintain perfect dental health. We don’t think that’s too ambitious because we know how to help you achieve this goal. The same way we work together within the office, we will work with you and each member of your family to educate all of you on caring for your teeth. In this way, we can help you prevent problems that could have the potential to permanently damage your dental health.
Our Special Recall Program
We know that life can get very busy, especially in a city like New York. That’s why we encourage every patient to schedule their next preventative care visit at the time of the current visit. Then when the time for that appointment arrives, we will send reminders so there’s no chance of missing the appointment.
It’s just too easy to put off that preventative care if you don’t have a little encouragement from your team. But every time you put off a preventative visit, you could be allowing a problem in your teeth or mouth to advance to the point that it could cost you a lot of money to treat. Preventative care is about preventing problems, pain and cost.
The Benefits of Regular Preventative Care
Preventative care visits twice a year have the ability to truly enhance your dental health. Here are some of the reasons that’s true:
- Little cavities can be spotted while they are still little. Fixing cavities while they are small costs less, takes less time and requires simpler treatment. A small cavity may not require any anesthetic for you to stay comfortable throughout your treatment. And it won’t have a chance to become a big cavity or worse yet, a reason to need root canal therapy.
- For our teenaged patients, seeing you twice a year means that we can spot problems or infections forming around wisdom teeth as soon as they show up.
- If you start grinding your teeth at night, you won’t have the chance to create wear and tear on your teeth because we’ll spot the damage and help you get a night guard to prevent more harm.
- Many kinds of damage such as cavities, cracks or damaged dental work which needs replacement may not be visible to you. We have little mirrors and the intraoral camera that helps us show you what is happening in every corner of your mouth.
- Professional cleanings keep tartar from accumulating on your teeth. Removing it at regular intervals is a vital step in protecting your teeth from decay.
- Your hygienist will also polish away superficial stains, keeping your smile brighter.
- This is a chance to ask questions about enhancements to your smile. Do you want a whiter smile? Straighter teeth? Discuss these issues with your hygienist during your preventative care visits.
- Our hygienists are dedicated to your education. They’ll know if you’re brushing properly and long enough. They will also know if you’re flossing. If they see a way for you to improve your at-home care procedure, they will educate you on why and how you can improve it.
That’s a lot of benefit associated with two simple preventative care visits each year. We intend to protect your dental health during these visits and provide all the value possible each time we see you.
Wouldn’t it be great if you and your family never had a major or expensive dental problem because your preventative care was perfect? That’s what we’re going for. Working together with other members of the Riverside Dental Care team and with you and your family, we feel we can eliminate gum disease and the future need for dental work like fillings, crowns, root canal therapy and more for your entire lifetime. Yes, it’s an ambitious goal—let’s see how close to it we can get. It all starts with maintaining that preventative care schedule.
Here’s some more information on our preventative services.
From all over the Upper West Side, patients come to see Dr. Angelica Silivria for her calm, caring manner and excellence of care. Dr. Silivria is fluent in Russian so she can help more members of the New York community.
The staff at Riverside Dental Care work together to create a pleasant, familial atmosphere so every patient feels welcome. We invite you to visit Riverside Dental Care for your next appointment. We look forward to working closely with you and your family to help you maintain perfect dental health for years to come. Please call us to learn more about our preventative, restorative or cosmetic dental services or to schedule an appointment.
