About Our Practice
Wellness Centered Dentistry is committed to helping our patients achieve optimal dental health for a lifetime. This goal requires a different approach to dental care, one that involves treating people as individuals and spending the time necessary to understand each person’s priorities and unique dental challenges.
Historically dentists were trained to be dental “repairmen” who would “fix” things when they broke. This model was based on treating the effects of disease and had little to do with controlling the causes of disease and preventing future problems. This approach lacks planning, prevention, and predictability and unfortunately is the model still used by most dental practices today.
At Wellness Centered Dentistry we work more like “investigators” who identify the underlying causes of dental destruction unique to each individual. Once we have identified these risk factors we can develop a lifetime strategy to restore dental health and control these sources of damage. This approach helps to prevent dental destruction in the future, maximizes longevity of dental restorations, and helps create a lifetime of healthy smiles.
