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Botox for TMJ: Exploring the Cost and Insurance Considerations

The popular anti-aging injectable, Botox, has emerged in recent years as an innovative and effective alternative for people seeking relief from muscle-related TMJ pain and dysfunction. Are you tired of enduring chronic jaw pain, frequent headaches, or muscle cramps in your face and jaw area? If so, you may be one of the millions of individuals suffering from temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorder. In this blog, we will break down

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Escaping the Dental Insurance Dictatorship: Embrace Transparent Dental Membership Plans

Dental insurance should not feel like an intrusive presence in your healthcare decisions. So why does it often feel that way? Let’s break it down with an analogy.  Have you ever encountered a micromanaging coworker who just couldn't resist meddling in your projects? Meet Jim, an employee of a large organization, and Mr. Dicta, the micromanager extraordinaire. Jim's story serves as a compelling analogy for the dental insura

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Dental Membership Plans: Your Path to Accessible Dental Care

If you are tired of navigating the complexities of dental insurance or worrying about surprise bills, our Dental Membership Plans may be the perfect solution.  Membership plans provide a scheduled payment process for adults and children that provides a reliable alternative to otherwise spotty dental coverage. We’ve built packages that include all of the preventative services you need to maintain your oral health throughout

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Revolutionizing Dental Care: Unveiling the Power of Dental Membership Plans

Are you tired of grappling with insurance that barely covers your dental needs? At Restoration Dental, we offer a membership plans that could change the way you think about dental care. Dr. David McNay recently sat down to discuss how our membership plans work and how they can benefit you. [embed]https://youtube.com/shorts/rdR7nHAODVI?feature=shared[/embed] Dr. McNay's message is clear: Dental membership plans are a game-chan

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How to Fix a Chipped Tooth: Restoring Your Smile

Teeth are remarkably strong, but accidents happen and sometimes you find yourself with a chipped tooth. Regardless of the severity, a chipped tooth can cause a good deal of stress concerning your dental health and even your appearance. Luckily, there are a myriad of ways to solve this issue. With the help of modern cosmetic procedures, our dental team can provide a solution to restore the function and aesthetics of your smile.&nb

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Maintain Your Smile with Dental Implants: Restoration and Upkeep

The value of restoring your smile is immeasurable, and often a significant investment in your health and overall well-being. When replacing teeth, weighing your options and choosing the right solution involves more than just aesthetics. Dental implants often stand out as the top-tier choice among available tooth replacement solutions. It does require a larger initial investment than bridges or dentures, but the dividends it pays

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Dental Implants Simplified

One of these teeth is an implant, so guess which one it may be! The game can be challenging if you aren't a dental professional, but don't feel bad, because it is difficult especially from this drawing to surmise which tooth is the implant. When we finally evolve to have x-ray vision we will be able to distinguish quickly, but until then we will have a hard time differentiating between real and manufactured. The joys of the impl

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Expanding Our Minds

I have always loved imagining things, often to my detriment in staying in the present, but I find it nearly impossible to survive unless I am expanding my thoughts. The key to maintaining my dreamer status is to surround myself with a team of people that collectively weigh in, respectfully pressure test and then consistently execute by setting and attaining goals.  I am lucky to be companions with a thoughtful, incredible team to m

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We Are Worth Much More

In the 1960’s dental insurance was instituted to help pay for dental work with an annual max of $1000, and if translated to today’s dollar the max would roughly be $6000 worth of benefits per year!  The trend, as we have all experienced, is that insurance’s $1000 max has stayed the same and the dollar is worth less. Problems show up in the ever-decreasing benefits offered, in the idea that we should be limited to the treatme

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Getting Married Soon

Smiles can be transformed. This patient was getting married in a couple of weeks and wanted her teeth to be remembered more affectionately in photographs. We didn’t have the time to send off a lab case for crowns, so we quickly rebuilt a beautiful smile with composite (tooth-colored fillings). Even though we may be able to hide our teeth behind masks now, it is important to care for our hidden gems (pearly whites). [caption i

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Reopening softly on May 19!!!

Much has been happening over the course of the last eight weeks!!!  I have been looking forward to this day for quite some time, but have also enjoyed some much needed business forensics and family time.  I thank all of you for being patient with our reopening, because much thought and preparation had to occur before restarting.  Our schedule will be more spread out and fewer hygienists will be working at any one time

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Coronavirus updated

The American Dental Association and the Georgia Board of Dentistry have encouraged the dental community to stop elective procedures for the next three weeks. We as dentists and hygienists are at the front line of creating aerosols and sprays when doing cleanings and other procedures.  To protect both our staff and our patient base, we must limit the potential to spread this novel virus.  What this means for our practice an

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CoronaVirus Protections

It is really important to stay a couple of steps ahead in our preparedness and sustainability as a healthcare business in light of the spreading COVID-19 coronavirus. In light of its potentially problematic influence, we have adopted these new best practices for the safety of all involved. Encouraging non-emergent patients over the age of 60 to delay their treatment until the COVID-19 threat level has lowered Encouraging t

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Rest for the Weary

We will be closed Christmas week and New Years week to deep clean the carpets, air ducts, ceilings and to get some much needed rest for myself and my staff. We have truly enjoyed having THE best patients, and because we can count this, we had over 6000 appointments this past year. We wish everyone a blessed rest over this holiday season!!!

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Holiday Hours and Same Day Smile

We will be closed Wednesday July 3rd, Thursday July 4th and Friday July 5th for the holiday. Our staff has been working their hearts out providing high quality care and they need a break (as do I). Here is a case of discoloration on two front teeth due to poor enamel formation while this patient’s teeth were developing. The tooth on the left of the picture had much more deep grey and brown internal colors which we worked hard to b

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Holiday Hours

‘Tis the time for a hiatus from the hard work of our Amazing staff on Amazing Patients! I can’t stop bragging on how we have been blessed by your trust in, commitment to and good words about us.  We will be closed the entire week of Christmas, and the hygienists will be back on Jan 2, 3, 4 while I am hiking, fishing, and game-playing with my family in a quiet lean-to in North Carolina. My family is the reason I started my o

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ZocDoc appointments

As you may well be aware, we have this awesome BLUE button on our restdental website that allows you to access our schedule and do your scheduling online. It is through a cool company called ZocDoc, and historically they have been awesome to us although they have changed some of their policies as of late. AS A RESULT we ask you ONLY press the button on our website and not through their website. As long as you schedule through our we

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