General and Family Dentistry Services in La Grange

Dental checkups are not only important to keep your teeth clean, but also for early detection of serious health issues. During a routine visit to CornerStone Dental, we’ll take x-rays and examine your teeth for any signs of infection or decay. Our dental hygiene team will provide cleanings based upon your needs, and fluoride treatments to help maintain and improve your oral health.

We welcome patients of all ages, so your entire family can receive excellent dental care in a comfortable, caring environment.

Both crowns and bridges are fixed prosthetic devices that are cemented onto existing teeth or dental implants. A dental crown is placed over an existing tooth to restore its strength, shape, and/or size, in addition to improve its appearance. Crowns are used to cover damaged teeth, while bridges are used to provide a prosthetic tooth in places where teeth may be missing.

Bridges can be used to restore multiple missing teeth in a row. Alternatives to bridges include removable partial dentures or dental implants. Our team of professionals will provide you all treatment options and help guide you in making a decision that is right for you.

More than half of American adults have some stage of periodontal disease. Scaling and root planing is a non-surgical procedure performed by a dentist or registered dental hygienist to help stop the progression of the disease. A scaling and root planing procedure is a careful cleaning of the root surfaces to remove plaque and calculus from deep periodontal pockets and to remove bacterial toxins.

Depending on the progression of periodontal disease, our dental hygiene department may recommend this treatment to be performed in more than one office visit.

After this treatment, you will be encouraged to visit our office more than twice a year to maintain the health of your gums and to closely monitor the status of your oral tissues. More frequent visits are needed to ensure the disease process is stable and further progression is kept to a minimum.

Dr. Karen Roberts is a certified Invisalign® provider. If you’re interested in clear braces, the first step is to visit our office to determine if Invisalign® is right for you. If the dentist feels that you are a candidate for Invisalign®, we will take x-rays and pictures of your teeth, as well as dental impressions.
These components are used by Invisalign® to create a 3-D image of your teeth. We will present you with treatment plan options for straighter teeth. This resulting plan will determine the number of aligners needed to achieve your desired results.

An intraoral camera is a tool used by dentists to examine your mouth in great detail. The camera looks like an oversized pen, and takes high-resolution images of a patient’s mouth which are then projected onto a monitor.

When we recommend dental treatment, we want our patients to understand why. The images from the intraoral camera allow us to show areas of concern up-close. The magnified pictures also help us to detect problems early, so we can treat patients before their condition becomes more serious and costly.

We use computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing, or CAD/CAM technology to improve the design and creation of some dental restorations, including crowns. This technology allows us to make crowns that fit more precisely and can be delivered to our patients in less time. Depending on the material chosen for crown fabrication by your doctor, for some cases we can make the final crown restoration in one visit, here in our office.