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With the New Year underway, perhaps 2021 is the ideal year to enhance your smile.

Rather than traditional braces that require wiring and gluing brackets to your teeth, we proudly offer clear teeth aligners. Ideal for teens and adults of all ages, clear teeth aligners offer a fast, painless and effective way to enhance your smile.

Process
Using a simple dental impression, I will develop your custom treatment plan. Before you even begin your treatment, we can discuss how your new smile will appear. From the impression, a series of aligners will be produced that help gradually correct your smile. Each aligner will be transparent, and it’s likely your friends and family may not even notice you wearing them!

Results
Based upon millions of patients, your particular treatment could be as short as 6 months — but you will start seeing results in just a few weeks. Your aligners are virtually transparent so they will not interrupt your life.

Lifestyle
Clear teeth aligners enable you to live your life — pain and trouble free. You simply take them out when you eat and drink (placing them in the provided case), and brush your teeth before putting them back in. You can:

• Keep eating all your favorite foods
• Maintain your current sports and activities
• Keep your current brushing and flossing practices, with no brackets or wires to get in the way
• Without the unexpected hassle of brackets and wires breaking, everything is planned

Wearing your aligners:

• You’ll be ready for anything — from movie night to adventures with friends
• Just wear them 20 to 22 hours a day for best results 

Benefits
With advances in technology, clear teeth aligners offer significant benefits over traditional braces–in terms of comfort, convenience and aesthetics just to mention a few. Please refer to the graphic below to see all of the advantages clear teeth aligners can offer you.

Visits
Upon receiving your aligners, I will ensure they fit perfectly and answer any questions you might have.  You’ll likely schedule short check-ups every 6 to 8 weeks to ensure your progress and to pick up the next batch of aligners.

Situations
Clear teeth aligners are ideal for a wide variety of situations, including: crowded teeth, over or underbite, crossbite, open bite, gap teeth, or to generally straighten any teeth. They are ideal for nearly all teeth.

Contact Me
If you always wanted to improve your smile but did not want the inconvenience, pain or cost of traditional braces, then please give me a call at (408) 255-0410. We can discuss all of your dental options.

Happy New Year!

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

With year-end quickly coming into focus, now is the perfect time to ensure you’ve used all of your 2020 dental benefits. As most benefit programs are “use it or lose it” in a calendar year — ending on December 31, this might be the perfect opportunity for you to:

• Explore teeth alignment via Invisalign
• Consider teeth whitening
• Replace old fillings or cracked crowns
• Address nighttime teeth grinding
• Have your semi-annual checkup or cleaning
• Access any other dental service

West Valley Dental Plan
For those who may not have dental benefits through their employer or have exceeded their annual benefit, West Valley Dental offers the ability to obtain reduced rates typically only available through dental insurance plans.

Example Rate Reduction

Service	Retail Price	Insurance Rate
Cleaning	$149	$109
Crown	$1,300	$1,091

Individual Plan
For a single fee of $199 you can enjoy reduced rates for the next 364 days.

Couple Plan
For a single fee of $299, you and another can enjoy reduced rates for the next 364 days.

Family Plan
For $499, a family of up to four can enjoy reduced rates for the next 364 days.

There is no limit to your savings during the period. The option to renew for the subsequent year is entirely yours. Please note that access to the reduced rates are only applicable at West Valley Dental.

Your Safety is Our Priority
You can rest assured that your health and safety are my highest concern. We take extraordinary measures to keep our patients safe, including:

• Complete PPE protection including N95 masks, face shields, and gowns.
• Generous scheduling — preventing patient overlap.
• Extraordinary cleaning and disinfecting including ultraviolet (UV) lights in our examination rooms, and medical-grade HEPA filter in the office.
• Click to see all of our protections.

Good dental and oral hygiene are vital to your overall health. Please call (408) 255-0410 with any questions or to schedule an appointment.

We hope you have a wonderful holiday season, and we look forward to seeing you soon.

Dr. Miruna Vlad, DDS and Ph.D.

As the fall approaches, it’s been seven months since the onset of the world-wide pandemic. Since March, much has been learned about COVID, including how to properly protect people and the environment in which we live. We’ve also learned our daily routines must continue for our spiritual, emotional and physical wellbeing.

As a dental professional, I am encouraging my patients to consider the importance of your regular routine, including dental checkups. Checkups provide the ability to identify potential issues before they become larger issues. For example:

• Unchecked accumulations of plaque and tartar (removed during regular cleanings) can lead to early or advanced stage gingivitis — or gum disease.
• Red or bleeding gums may lead to the progression of periodontitis or tooth loosening or loss.
• Chips can evolve into cracks requiring more elaborate or costly procedures — such as filling replacements or new crowns.
• Minor discomfort that could easily be treated may result in cavities or infections — perhaps requiring fillings or root canals.

While patients may understandably feel anxious about visiting the dentist, you can rest easy knowing my gentle touch will leave you smiling, pain free and confident knowing your gums and teeth are 100% healthy.

You can also be confident that your health and safety are my highest concern. West Valley Dental has taken extraordinary measures to keep our patients safe, including:

• Complete PPE protection including N95 masks, face shields, and gowns.
• Generous scheduling — preventing patient overlap.
• Extraordinary cleaning and disinfecting including ultraviolet (UV) lights in our examination rooms, and medical-grade HEPA filter in the office.
• Click to see all of our protections.

Given healthy gums and teeth are essential to one’s overall health, an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure.

Please call (408) 255-0410 with any questions or to schedule an appointment. You’ll be glad you’ve taken care of your teeth, so they can take care of you.