General Dentistry in Dickson & Belle Meade
Dental Hygiene Is Important
Maintain your oral health and beautiful mile by visiting Accent Smile Center. Dr. Ford Gatgens and his expert dental team offer regular preventative cleanings and checkups to help patients all around Dickson benefit from amazingly clean mouths.
Preventative Dentistry
Multiple things are checked and monitored to help detect, prevent and maintain your overall dental health. You can receive fluoride treatments and additional products based on your risk factors that Dr. Gatgens discovers.
We'll even give you an advanced oral cancer screening with Oral ID, so your health will always be first. Preventative dentistry involves everything we do to keep your teeth healthy.
Regular dental exams and cleaning visits are essential to preventing dental problems and maintaining the health of your teeth and gums. At these visits, we'll clean your teeth and check for cavities.
It’s simple: schedule your routine cleanings at Accent Smile Center. Then, show up. Not only does that keep your teeth clean, but it allows us to find potential risks and fix them before they turn into real problems.
What Happens During a Checkup?
At every dental appointment at Accent Smile Center, you’ll enjoy top-tier dental care with you at the center. We provide complete checkups to diagnose your overall dental wellness and suggest appropriate treatments for any possible concerns.
Here are a few examples of the remarkable attention you’ll receive during your next trip to Accent Smile Center:
- Dr. Gatgens and his expert team will administer a cleaning to enliven your smile, refresh your breath, and polish your teeth
- Full oral exam to determine the integrity of your teeth, gums, and mouth tissues
- Digital X-rays beneath the surface of the gums to help us diagnose health concerns
- Checking for indications of tooth decay imperceptible by the eye alone
- Oral cancer screening to check for signs of cancerous and precancerous conditions
How Regular Is “Regular” Anyway?
Our Dickson & Belle Meade dental team recommends scheduling checkups once every six months. That said, Dr. Gatgens may want to see you more often according to your treatment needs. But regardless of how often you make it to Accent Smile Center, you’ll always enjoy world-class support for your smile.
Schedule Your Appointment
Join thousands of people around Dickson & Belle Meade who have maintained their oral health with preventative dentistry. We also invite everyone to track all of our awesome patients and great smiles on our Facebook page!
Strengthen Your Teeth With Fluoride Treatments
Fluoride is used to strengthen teeth. Today, it's found in most drinking water, but many people grew up without the benefit of fluoride if their water source was from a well.
Also, the fact many Americans drink bottled water today makes it more important to see your dentist to have that added benefit at the office.
Offering Digital X-Rays
Digital X-rays, or digital radiographs, are one of the newest innovations in dentistry. This new technology exposes patients to significantly reduced exposure.
Also, digital images are much easier for a dentist to read and for a patient to view.
The images can be adjusted and expanded, allowing dentists to see conditions more clearly, which in turn leads to better diagnosis and better treatment for patients.
CBCT X-Rays
This new technology enables Dr. Gatgens to take one low radiation, high-definition, 3D CT scan, lasting under five seconds, to give us all the X-rays we need for your treatment.