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All-On-4 

All-On-Four (Teeth Replaced in a Day)

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An All-On-Four procedure allows you to completely restore an entire arch of teeth using dental implants. You do not need a dental implant for every one of your missing teeth. All you need is four precisely placed implants on each arch to restore your smile. The titanium implants have a unique ability to fuse to living bone. So eventually, the implants become part of your jawbone and serve as a strong, long-lasting foundation for your new teeth. This process helps to prevent bone loss in your jaw. By using this All-On-Four procedure, Dr. Jared Ford provides a way to give most patients a *new smile in one day.


* Your smile in one day is a temporary prosthesis that allows time for you to heal from the surgery and for the implant to fuse to the bone. Once this happens, you will come back for your customized, signature smile. 

Porcelain‍‍‍ Crown

Protection For Your Teeth with a Natu‍‍‍ral Appeal!

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Dental crowns are an excellent option when you are experiencing extreme tooth decay, wear, or have a cracked or broken tooth. When a tooth’s structure is compromised, a crown rebuilds the tooth. This saves the natural tooth from extraction. The crown covers the entire tooth to ensure no further tooth decay or compromise.


Besides strengthening a damaged tooth, a crown can be used to improve its appearance! A crown can also be placed on top of an implant to provide a tooth-like shape. Porcelain or ceramic crowns can be matched to the color of your natural teeth.


Our crowns are made of the highest grade porcelain materials to ensure an aesthetically pleasing appearance. At your first appointment your dentist will take an impression and prep the tooth to make room for your crown. Our team will then place a temporary crown to be worn while your final restoration is being made by one of our expert dental laboratories. When the crown is ready, your dentist will make final adjustments and cement it into place. Your tooth will then be restored to optimal shape and function!

Veneers

Helping Create Your Signature Smile!

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Veneers cover the front surface of a tooth. By covering the front surface, the veneer can change the appearance of your tooth. Veneers are typically done to improve the appearance of a patient’s smile. Veneers can alter the appearance of shape, color, and alignment.


Your dentist will take an impression of your tooth at your first appointment. Temporary veneers are placed over your teeth until the final ones are ready. At your final appointment, your dentist will remove the temporary veneers, and bond the final veneers into place. Your teeth will be restored and your smile will be greatly improved!


When a tooth’s structure is compromised, a crown rebuilds it. A crown is usually made of ceramic material. At your first appointment Dr. Ford will take an impression and prep the tooth to make room for your crown. Our team will then place a temporary crown while your final restoration is being made by one of our expert dental laboratories.


When the crown is ready, your doctor will make final adjustments and cement it into place. Your tooth will then be restored to optimal shape and function!

Tooth Whitening

To Brighten Your Signature Smile!‍‍‍‍‍‍

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Tooth whitening is a great way to quickly enhance your natural smile. Whitening trays are good for whitening for a lifetime. Custom fitting these whitening trays allows them to fit snugly to your teeth. This prevents your tooth whitening from injuring your gums. It also ensures that your tooth whitening is as effective as possible. The tooth whitening process is completed in two weeks with daily use.


Tooth whitening is a great way to brighten your event for a special event. Whitening trays can help you achieve a megawatt smile for a wedding, graduation, family reunion or interview!


KöR is widely recognized as the world’s most effective teeth whitening system. KöR offers cost-effective solutions. Options include phenomenal home whitening for average patients, to astonishing treatment of tetracycline cases and everything in-between.  


The brighter smile of your dreams is just an appointment away! Your custom whitening trays last you a lifetime and touch-up gel is always available from our office for your convenience!


Ford Signature Dentistry is proud to offer KoR Deep Bleaching Whitening Systems in our office! Widely recognized as the world’s most effective teeth whitening system, KöR offers cost-effective solutions from phenomenal home whitening for average patients, to astonishing treatment of tetracycline cases and everything in-between. Seeing is really believing when it come to tooth whitening! We encourage you to visit KoR's website to see some great before and afters!

Annual Cleani‍‍‍ngs

The Base of P‍‍‍‍‍‍reventative Dental Care!

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Visiting our Fort Myers dental office for your annual preventative care is well worth the time! Having your teeth cleaned is the most beneficial thing you can do for your oral health! Keeping up with these cleaning appointments are essential for having great oral health!


Most patients only brush their teeth once a day. Many are not even doing it for the recommended two minutes at a time! Even when done perfectly, brushing only removes about 65% of the plaque and bacteria on your teeth! What remains will harden into tartar which cannot be removed at home.


Tartar can lead to many oral problems including cavities and gum disease! Coming to our dental office for a professional cleaning will remove the remaining 35% of plaque and bacteria on your teeth. Your hygienist will work with you to decide if you should have cleanings every three or six months. The frequency of your visits will be based on your gum health! Maintaining good oral hygiene by having your teeth cleaned professionally is the most effective way to prevent gum disease knows as periodontitis.


Additionally, your hygienist will work with our dentist to help give you a more beautiful smile! Working together to provide you the best in dental care helps remove stains and polish your teeth to a brilliant shine, resulting in a whiter and brighter smile!


It is not uncommon for a patient who is getting back into a dental hygiene routine to have a lot of excess tartar. If this is the case, a debridement is needed. Debridement is simply a cleaning that is focused on removing excess, mass tartar. This appointment will need to be followed up with a "fine scale" to remove the smaller areas of tartar around the mouth.


We try to make you as comfortable as possible at these appointments by having tempur-pedic cushions, warm blankets, and digital x-rays. Our team of hygienist are well experienced and work to share their knowledge with you throughout your appointment. Once your cleaning is completed, our front desk staff will have fresh baked cookies, coffee, and waters for you to enjoy on the drive home.

Periodo‍‍‍ntics‍‍‍

Treating Gum Disease an‍‍‍d Inflammation!

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Gum disease is an inflammation of the gum line. This can progress to affect the bone that surrounds and supports your teeth. The three stages of gum disease are gingivitis, periodontitis and advanced periodontitis. Gum disease can be painless, so it is important to be aware of any of the following symptoms:

  • Swollen, red, tender or bleeding gums
  • Gums that recede or move away from the tooth
  • Persistent bad breath or bad taste in mouth
  • Losing teeth
  • Visible pus surrounding the teeth and gums

In order to prevent seeing a specialist, our hygiene department is able to treat many levels or perio using a technique called “scaling and root planning”. This is a process of numbing the gum tissue, then cleaning plaque out from beneath the gum line. This allows your gums to snap back against the teeth in a restorative fashion. 

Dental ‍‍‍Bridge

A Solution for M‍‍‍issing Teeth

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Are you considering a bridge to help fill the gap left by missing teeth? All dental bridges are used to replace missing teeth, however, there are options for bridge types to best suit a patient’s lifestyle. Consult with your Fort Myers dentist on your needs and the benefits of each bridge type. This allows the dentist to consider which is most beneficial for your specific case. Working together to choose an option results in the most aesthetically pleasing and comfortable bridge for each patient.


A bridge uses your natural teeth on either side of the missing tooth for support. These teeth become the support structures for your bridge and then impressions are taken. These impressions are sent to one of our expert lab partners to create your finalized bridge. While in office, our staff will create a temporary bridge. This allows you to leave our office with an enhanced smile! Once your completed bridge is back from our lab you will return to our office for placement.


Do you have a missing tooth or section of missing teeth? Does this affect your confidence and prevent you from being able to live a worry free life? Are you unable to enjoy your favorite foods? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, a dental bridge could be the right solution for you!

Mouth Gua‍‍‍rds

Protecting Your Teeth from ‍‍‍Wear!

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Mouth Guards are a great option for protecting teeth from wear. Grinding and clenching of the teeth is a common thing among patients. However; this stress reliever can turn into a bigger stress! When hard tooth material is worn away as a result of grinding or clenching, it is called attrition. The extent of wear and damage depends on the amount of grinding. Typically damage is more severe in individuals who exhibit this behavior in their sleep.


Excessive tooth wear causes many oral health complications. This includes unattractive and irregular tooth levels, jagged and sharp tooth edges, tooth pain and eventual loss of the teeth all together. As the harder outer surface of the tooth is worn away, the softer dentin will be exposed speeding up the process. There are preventative and corrective treatment options for patients experiencing tooth wear issues.


Treatment will vary based on the cause of wear and when it is detected, making it critical to work closely with your dentist to proactively treat the issue before more damage is sustained.

Dental Imp‍‍‍lant

Long Lasting, Natural Looking, Solution for Missing Teeth!‍‍‍

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Dental implants are a wonderful option for a patient needing to replace a missing tooth. Dental implants offer more strength and stability to live a more carefree lifestyle. Missing teeth can have a huge impact on your mouth! Aside from cosmetic concerns, missing teeth can affect the rest of your teeth. Gaps of missing teeth cause others to move and shift.


An implant works by substituting the root of the missing tooth. We work closely with implant specialists who place the implant body into the jaw bone. They also place a special cap to keep you covered while healing. This cap can be covered with a temporary tooth to fill the empty space. When the site is fully healed your healing cap is removed. Your dentist places an abutment, which serves as the base of your new tooth. To complete your implant a porcelain crown is placed over the abutment. Cementing this crown into place restores your tooth to optimal shape and function!


After implant surgery, you will have the ability to enjoy the freedom of a carefree life! Your implant will provide the strength, durability, and longevity of a natural tooth!

Sleep Apnea

Because You Deserve a Good Nigh‍‍‍t's Sleep!

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Sleep apnea is a potentially serious sleep disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts. You may have sleep apnea if you snore loudly, and you feel tired even after a full night's sleep.


Sleep apnea usually is a chronic (ongoing) condition that disrupts your sleep. When your breathing pauses or becomes shallow, you’ll often move out of deep sleep and into light sleep. As a result, the quality of your sleep is poor, which makes you tired during the day. Sleep apnea is a leading cause of excessive daytime sleepiness.


The main types of sleep apnea is

  • Obstructive sleep apnea, the more common form that occurs when throat muscles relax.
  • Central sleep apnea, which occurs when your brain doesn't send proper signals to the muscles that control breathing.
  • Complex sleep apnea syndrome, also known as treatment-emergent central sleep apnea, occurs when someone has both obstructive sleep apnea and central sleep apnea.

Working with a sleep study, your dentist can work with you to find a treatment for your specific case. CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) is the most common treatment for moderate to severe sleep apnea in adults. Many people can also get more restful sleep with the use of a night guard!

Inlays & Onlays

A Solution for Replacing Your Old Fillings and Decay‍‍‍

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Dental inlays and onlays are used on back molars to fix decay or cracked teeth that do not have enough damage to need a crown.


Ideal candidates for this treatment have too much damage to successfully use fillings for treatment. However; sufficient healthy tooth remains to avoid the need for a crown. This treatment allows the dentist to conserve your natural tooth.


Dental inlays and onlays are used when old fillings need to be removed or replaced. A dental inlay is similar to a filling and fits inside the cusp tips (top edges) of the tooth. A dental onlay is more extensive and extends over the cusps of the treated tooth.


There are many benefits to inlays and onlays:


1.    Inlays and onlays are durably made from hard materials which last up to 30 years.


2.    They strengthen teeth by up to 75% vs the old metal fillings they are used to replace, which can reduce the strength of the teeth by up to 50%.


3.    Inlays and onlays prolong tooth life and prevent the need for more dental treatment in the future.

Our Fort Myers dentist is able to help you achieve any smile of your dreams! Dr. Jared Ford and his dental office are proud to offer many services not limited to the above. From simple decay removal to a full cosmetic smile makeover; our dentist will work with you step by step to ensure complete satisfaction!

Our team can be reached at 239-936-5252. Consultations are offered with our dentist to make sure all questions are addressed. This personal time with the dentist allows any anxieties and concerns are addressed. You will work together to create a treatment plan. Upon completion, you will have a smile to be proud of!

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