Advanced Dental Technology – Katy, TX
Your Child’s Comfort is Our Top Priority
Our commitment to providing children with comfortable, fun, and positive dental experiences doesn’t stop at our phenomenal and knowledgeable team. Our office is equipped with the latest technology in the dental field to make every treatment and examination your child needs as streamlined, stress-free, and painless as possible. Learn more about the advanced technology we use in our pediatric dental practice below, and if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to give us a call!
Cone Beam CT Scanner
Our cone beam CT scanner is an advanced imaging device that we can use to track your child’s oral growth and development, as well as examine their airway. The process of capturing the image is fast and easy; we’ll have your child rest their chin on a comfortable platform, and the scanner will rotate around their head. Within about 30 seconds, the process will be complete, and the scanner will create a 3D digital model of their entire facial anatomy, allowing Dr. Mehta to examine their teeth, sinuses, and airway in immense detail.
Digital X-Rays
Gone are the days of film X-ray systems that use harmful chemicals to develop and require your little one to spend extra time in the treatment chair. We utilize all-digital X-ray imaging to minimize your little one’s radiation exposure and provide Dr. Mehta and our team with higher quality images of their mouth. Thanks to the greater detail and efficiency of digital X-rays, we can diagnose problems with greater accuracy and help your child spend less time in our office!
Intraoral Scanner
Our Alliedstar AS 200E intraoral camera is a wireless, wand-like device with a camera on the tip of it. It allows us to take close-up photos of hard-to-see areas of your child’s mouth to review them with greater accuracy as well as capture digital impressions of their entire row of teeth within 20 seconds. As a result, our office doesn’t need to use gag-inducing putty, and we can deliver better oral health outcomes!
LightScalpel® Dental Laser
One of the scariest parts of lip and tongue tie treatment for parents is the thought of their child being in pain. With our LightScalpel dental laser, we’re able to more comfortably and efficiently complete frenectomies, all while minimizing your child’s risk of post-operative infection and bleeding. This device emits an incredibly small beam of light out of the tip of it that effortlessly vaporizes the tissue restricting your child’s lips or tongue. As it’s doing that, it also cauterizes to help speed up the healing process and eliminate the need for a scalpel and sutures.
Local Anesthetic Delivery System
Our NuSmile Soan local anesthetic delivery system is a cordless, electronic device that allows our team to precisely numb an area of the mouth 100% painlessly. It completely eliminates the sensation that a child may typically have with an anesthetic injection and is non-threatening in design, allowing our team to improve your little one’s comfort during their procedure without causing undue distress in the process. It also drastically minimizes residual numbing of the lips after treatment, helping ease parents’ concerns about their children hurting themselves due to post-operative numbness.