Coleman Center for Cosmetic Dentistry | Dr. Paul Coleman

If you are facing the possibility of a root canal in the near future, the reputation of this procedure may cause you to anticipate it with much anxiety. However, most people who have had root canals agree that waiting for the procedure and the anticipation is the worst part of the whole experience. If you are anxious about an upcoming root canal or other major dental procedure the Del Mar dental office of Dr. Coleman offers sedation dentistry to help you relax before, during, and after.

While dentists have been numbing pain for years, endodontists who use sedation dentistry are a comparatively recent development. If you experience intense fear at the thought of going to the dentist, particularly for a procedure such as a root canal, Dr. Coleman can offer you conscious or unconscious sedation dentistry. During conscious sedation, you will be awake and able to answer questions, but will remember little or nothing of the procedure afterwards. During unconscious, or sleep dentistry, you will not be aware of the procedure as it takes place.

Please find out more about sedation dentistry for your next root canal by contacting Dr. Coleman in San Diego today.

If you have dental crowns made of gold or resin that doesn't match your teeth, you may not notice the contrast very often. But even if your crown is on a back tooth, when you speak or laugh, others will notice if you have a gold crown in the midst of otherwise white teeth. For patients in and near Del Mar who are concerned about the natural-looking appeal of their teeth, Dr. Coleman is able to replace old, unnaturally-colored dental crowns with new porcelain dental crowns which are virtually indistinguishable from your natural teeth.

Most people will need at least one dental crown in their life, either because of a broken tooth or to replace a missing tooth. The location of the crown often determines whether you will receive a resin crown or, if the tooth is in a very visible area of your mouth, a porcelain crown. The technology for creating porcelain crowns allows Dr. Coleman to include not only a color that will match your natural teeth, but allows porcelain crowns to so closely match the surrounding teeth in size and detail that it is visually indistinguishable from your natural, healthy teeth.

Please contact Dr. Coleman in San Diego, California to learn more about replacing your old dental crowns with natural-looking porcelain dental crowns.

If your son or daughter attends Helix High School in La Mesa, you are probably already aware of the positive effects a Pure Power Mouthguard can have on your athlete's performance. Dr. Coleman recently participated in the presentation of PPMs to the athletes of Helix to help demonstrate the extra edge proper jaw alignment can give to athletes.

Neuromuscular dentistry has been recognized as an important aspect contributing solutions to problems such as recurring headaches and sleep apnea. Only recently has the acknowledgement of the affect of correct jaw alignment on athletic performance become widely acknowledged.

Athletes with correct jaw alignment really can run faster and jump higher. Your jaw can affect your posture, your hearing, even your vision and reflexes because it is so closely connected to your spine. The difference may not be enormous, but in both professional and amateur sporting events, a half-second quicker responses or the ability to hone your aim even a quarter of an inch can be the deciding factor between hitting a home run or striking out.

A writer at sdbackyard.com took notice, and has posted an article covering the effects and some of Dr. Coleman's comments on the event. You can click on the link below to read the whole article.

http://www.sdbackyard.com/index.php?page_id=1000&site_page_id=5&post_id=52829

If you would like to learn more about what the Pure Power Mouthguard can do for you, please contact the office of Dr. Paul Coleman in San Diego, California.

Oral surgery can help improve your health and there are many reasons for having oral surgery:

Extracting impacted or rotten teeth
Removing wisdom teeth
Having dental Implants
Fitting dentures correctly

Impacted teeth can lead to many health problems such as the crowding or shifting of teeth, jaw pain, and the growth of cysts and tumors. Any of your teeth may become impacted. The most common are the bicuspids and wisdom teeth. It is important to remove your wisdom teeth before they have the chance to grow in misaligned or become impacted.

Dental implants consist of an implant, an abutment, and a porcelain crown. The implant is first inserted in the jawbone by the surgeon. Then an abutment is attached to the implant by a cosmetic surgeon. Lastly, the porcelain crown is placed on the abutment. This procedure results in a natural looking new tooth.

Oral surgery can also be used to properly align the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) when neuromuscular dentistry is no longer an option for treatment. Also, bone grafting helps build up the jawbone where it is weak so it can properly support dentures.

Oral surgery is a last resort for treating sleep apnea. There are severe cases of sleep apnea where removal of the soft tissue in the back of the throat will help open the airways. Please speak with cosmetic dentist Dr. Coleman before undergoing any oral surgery. He will discuss all of your treatment options and may have a better alternative solution.

If you are interested in your oral surgery options, please contact our San Diego cosmetic dentistry office to schedule a consultation.

While many of us did not benefit from going to an orthodontist as a child, others did have teeth straightened. However, as we aged, we gradually got crowded teeth again, especially in the front.

Fortunately, there are many treatments available to help you with this problem. Uniquely trained in cosmetic dentistry, Dr. Paul Coleman can guide you on the best treatment option to help you get the result you are looking for.

For patients who have just minor crowding, a gentle tooth re-shaping can give the illusion of straighter teeth without any shots in one short visit.

For patients who would like their teeth straighter without grinding on them at all, an exciting orthodontic treatment called Invisalign® is available. This procedure eliminates the metal brackets, colorful elastics and wires that have been associated with orthodontic care for decades. Most adult cases can be handled with this new technology. After carefully determining the proper final alignment of your teeth, clear plastic "Aligners" are fabricated. The aligners are virtually invisible when in place and look much like tooth-bleaching trays. Each set of aligners is worn for two weeks, and the teeth gently and gradually move into the next position. Treatment time depends on how much tooth movement is necessary, but it generally takes six months to two years to complete a case.

Another alternative is to have porcelain veneers placed on the teeth. If you have ugly, misshapen teeth, and have orthodontics done, you will likely end up with straighter, ugly misshaped teeth. Porcelain veneers are thin porcelain facings which are bonded on the teeth and can essentially work as "Instant Orthodontics." They are strong, look natural and can change a person's smile in two visits. Talk about instant gratification!

Dr. Coleman has extensive training at the world-famous Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies (LVI). He has completed every cosmetic course offered at LVI, as well as courses in Neuromuscular TMJ care. He is certified in Oral Conscious Sedation ("Sleep Dentistry"), Invisalign and PPM (Pure Power Mouth Guard), and can now offer a comfortable alternative to noisy, cumbersome CPAP’s for Obstructive Sleep Apnea.

Please visit Dr. Coleman's website at www.drpaulcoleman.com.
Whatever dental concern you may have, you owe it to yourself to call Dr. Coleman today for a FREE consultation, 858-748-4802.

Do you have trouble eating certain foods? Do missing teeth or poorly fitting dentures determine what you can eat? Wouldn’t it be great to eat anything you want, just like when you were a kid? How much would that change the quality of your life?

If you have difficulty eating certain foods, or you avoid food you would love to eat because of missing teeth or poorly fitting dentures, you could be a candidate for dental implants.

Dental implants are titanium screws that resemble the roots of the teeth and are placed into the jaw where a tooth was lost. The implant knits to the bone over a couple of months, and once secure, is restored with a crown or non-removable bridge.

Implants can also be used to retain removable full or partial dentures. They can make your denture so secure, you will be able to eat whatever you want without your denture moving all over!

This procedure has been around for over forty years, and the techniques have improved with each passing year. Currently, the best and latest development has come with the advent of Implant Treatment Planning Soft¬ware. This procedure involves taking a CT scan of the patient’s head (a CT scan is like a CAT Scan with only 10 percent of the radiation). This scan is then sent to Dr. Coleman who uses the software to pre-surgically plan the length, width and type of implant he wishes to place in the exact, most stable location. This allows a greater level of precision than ever before. The plans are then sent to a lab where the technicians fabricate a surgical stent which allows Dr. Coleman to place the implant without the use of scalpels or sutures. The benefits to the patient are enormous. Less discomfort and decreased chance of poor placement, numbness, or misaligned implant/crown relationship are just some of the advantages.

Do all implant surgeons use this technology? No, but Dr. Coleman decided this technology is a must for his patients.

Dr. Coleman has extensive training at the world-famous Las Vegas Institute (LVI) for Advanced Dental Studies. He has completed every cosmetic course offered at LVI, as well as courses in Neuromuscular TMJ care. He is certified in Oral Conscious Sedation ("Sleep Dentistry"), Invisalign® and PPM (Pure Power Mouth Guard), and is now offering a comfortable alternative to noisy, cumbersome CPAP’s for Obstructive Sleep Apnea.

Please visit Dr. Coleman’s website at www.drpaulcoleman.com.
Whatever dental concern you may have, you owe it to yourself to call Dr. Coleman today for a FREE consulta¬tion, 858-748-4802.

More Americans take time off from work for headaches than any other reason. When asked why they have headaches, they make up reasons: Allergies, sinusitis, stress. That's a biggie, STRESS; it's a typical self-diagnosis these days. Seems everyone is stressed out.

We all know folks who have more stress than we do. But not everyone who is stressed suffers from headaches. So if you suffer from daily or weekly headaches, I would like to suggest you investigate an underlying cause of your headaches that your physician may not have suggested.

TMJ is a really bad name for a common problem. TMJ stands for Temporo-Mandibular Joint. This joint moves when your lower jaw moves around. When people think they have TMJ problems, it should more correctly be termed TMD (Temopro-Mandibular Dysfunction) or MFP (MyoFacialPain) Syndrome.

What causes this problem is a lack of balance between the place your upper and lower jaws line up due to your bite, the joint itself and the muscles that control the way your jaw moves. When these three pieces of the puzzle are not working in harmony, you can experience headaches, ringing in your ears, vertigo, pain behind your eyes, tingling in your fingertips, clicking and popping of the joint, neck pain, insomnia, painful muscles around your face and neck, a tendency to clench or grind your teeth, your jaw becoming fatigued during routine hygiene visits, lack of ability to open wide, jaws that lock open or closed, and more.

If you suffer from some of the symptoms listed above, the office of Dr. Paul Coleman may be uniquely qualified to handle your situation and improve the quality of your life through the techniques learned through the study of Neuromuscular Dentistry.

Dr. Coleman recently had a patient who lost her sense of taste after a long dental visit. She was quite upset as she had previously lost her sense of taste for 8 years following wisdom teeth removal. Understandably, she was worried at the prospect of that occurring again. It was assumed the dental surgery caused the problem. As it turns out, it was from having her jaw open for a long time, not the surgery. Dr. Coleman brought her to the office, relaxed her muscles electronically and her taste returned to normal in a few hours.

These types of instant results are not uncommon.

Dr. Coleman has extensive training at the world-famous Las Vegas Institute (LVI) for Advanced Dental Studies. He has completed every cosmetic course offered at LVI, as well as courses in Neuromuscular TMJ care. He is certified in Oral Conscious Sedation ("Sleep Dentistry"), Invisalign® and PPM (Pure Power Mouth Guard), and is now offering a comfortable alternative to noisy, cumbersome CPAP's for Obstructive Sleep Apnea.

Please visit Dr. Coleman's website at www.drpaulcoleman.com.

Whatever dental concern you may have, you owe it to yourself to contact Dr. Coleman today for a FREE consultation at 800-994-0706.