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Our goal is to develop a strong partnership with every patient. When you understand the importance of your dental health, we can help you maintain a healthy mouth, as well as treat the causes and symptoms of any dental condition.
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Lilian S. Ong, DDS, Inc. and Associates Family Dentistry
820 W. Merced Avenue, West Covina, California 91790
SERVICES
Our office specializes in elective cosmetic dentistry services. We can treat a wide variety of dental problems while offering a range of options and fees, while maintaining the unique quality of outstanding service. Creating or renewing a beautiful smile can easily be accomplished in as few as two visits, depending on the patient’s circumstance.
Our services cater to your needs, giving you the aesthetic options you deserve. Spaces, gaps, chips, or irregular teeth can be transformed into ideal proportions and color; excessively short or long teeth can also benefit from cosmetic dentistry; discolored, stained, or yellowed teeth can be made bright again; old metal, dental work including gold, silver/mercury fillings or metal-based porcelain crowns (caps) can be made to look natural again; and even a smile that exposes too much of a patient’s gums can be reshaped to ideal proportions.
Covina cosmetic dentist Dr. Ong and her staff uphold the standard excellence of service. The Smile Center is designed to give you the information you need before making the right decisions about cosmetic dental care. Our quality staff looks forward to discussing your options with you.
Offered Services
Children
Sealants, Pre-orthodontics, Myofunctional Therapy
Orthodontic
Clear Braces, Invisalign
Cosmetic Dentistry
Veneers, White Filllings, Bleaching, Cosmetic Imaging, All Ceramic Crowns and Bridges, Porcelain Fused-to-Metal Fixed Bridge
Other Services
Preventive Dentistry, Diagnosing Periodontal Diseases, Treating Forms of
Periodontitis, Kinetic Cavity Preparation (KCP), Restorative Dentistry, Oral Surgery,
TMJ (Temporomandibular Joint), Headaches, Snoring, Gum Grafting, Bone Grafting,
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SLEEP APNEA
What is sleeping disorders?
Is there such thing as sleep problems in Children?
Yes, including nightmares, night terrors, sleepwalking and sleep talking are common. Narcolepsy is rare sleep disorder commonly seen during adolescence. This type of sleep disorder needs referral for proper evaluation and management.
How can the Dentist help sleep disorder?
We help snoring, which is a loud breathing noise from vibrations of the soft palate. Conditions such as asthma, allergies, and cigarette smoke environment are reported to increase the risk of snoring in children as they induce irritation of the upper respiratory tract. We evaluate their airway such as adenoids, tonsils and open or close bite skeletal problems, bruxism, tongue tie(we will do SIMPLE LASER procedure) will also effect the child’s jaw development.
What are the significance of not having sleep disorder treated?
In children, studies after studies shows those children who snore and who go on to develop sleep apnea will eventually develop behavior disturbances such as restlessness, aggressive behavior, excessive daytime sleepiness, school problems. Habitual snoring is defined as snoring frequently or always snoring “always” is significantly associated with poor academic performance in mathematics, science, and spelling.
The same problems occur with adult and prolong untreated problems will link to decreasing life span from 8-10 years, diabetes, Alzheimer, atrial fibrillation (irregular heart beat), lack of energy which leads to overweight, depression. The neck diameter of larger than 17” for male and 16” for female usually more likely that they have sleep disorders, apnea or snoring.
How do we screen sleeping disorder?
From your health questionnaires, we use Rhinometer and Pharyngometer, Watch Pat 100 (Home sleep study) or PSS at the hospital, doctor Ong will recommend appropriate treatments that best for you and compliance. For CPAP users who intolerant to it, we have alternative methods using FULL BREATH mouth appliance, uniquely design and patent by FULL BREATH Inc, which will open up your airway, at the same time also reposition your tongue forward. Unlike other appliance, this is one piece, smaller, easy to take with you to travel, and has been approved by FDA. This mouthpiece can be compared to a sports mouthpiece, allowing the patient to breathe through either the nose or mouth.
This is an inexpensive non surgical approach when a person have SLEEP APNEA, before other methods is administered. When a person snores, his lack of deep continuous sleep cause him her to be fatigue during the waking hours, we will also monitor your results with post op test and screening.
Does my medical insurance pay?
Some will, and some don’t. We will assist you to bill your insurance and MediCare. Our staff trained to do this insurance billing.
Lilian S. Ong, DDS, Inc. and Associates Family Dentistry
820 W. Merced Avenue, West Covina, California 91790
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