Dr. Paige Lester and her team at Healthy Smiles of Birmingham, located in Inverness, provide comprehensive, top-quality dental care. They offer patients a wide variety of dental services and procedures and always keep up with rapidly evolving techniques and technologies.
Perhaps most important, they take the time to connect with their patients, to listen to their concerns and to make them feel comfortable and relaxed. The Healthy Smiles staff enjoys building strong relationships with their patients.
“I’m very fortunate to have many patients and families in my office that have become friends over the years, and I love seeing them,” said Dr. Lester.
Among other services, Healthy Smiles offers expert smile makeovers, which can be very important to a patient. “A beautiful smile conveys health and beauty and makes a person feel more confident,” Dr. Lester says.
Smile makeovers can involve a wide range of cosmetic procedures, including composite fillings, dental bonding, crowns and veneers, as well as Kor Whitening, which can whiten even dark, stained teeth.
Doing smile makeovers is very gratifying. “Sometimes patients and I share happy tears and hugs after a makeover,” Dr. Lester says.
Patients at Healthy Smiles benefit from the efforts of Dr. Lester and her staff to stay at the forefront of their field. “I’m constantly studying new and better methods.” she says.
For example, Healthy Smiles patients who need crowns can take advantage of CEREC, or Chairside Economical Restoration using Esthetic Ceramic, a faster, dramatically improved method for fabricating perfectly fitting crowns, veneers and bridges using high-definition digital scans and a computer-aided milling machine. CEREC crowns can be fabricated in a single visit, and patients don’t need temporary crowns.
“Patients love having everything completed in a pre-planned, single visit, especially if they’ve had crowns done in the traditional manner,” Dr. Lester says.
Among other services at Healthy Smiles, Dr. Lester and her staff can help patients who struggle to get eight hours of restful sleep due to sleep apnea. Some patients manage their sleep apnea using oral sleep appliances, and they can be fitted for these appliances at Healthy Smiles.
Dr. Lester treats patients who’ve already been diagnosed with sleep apnea by a licensed sleep physician but are unable to tolerate a CPAP machine. She can determine if a patient is a candidate for an oral sleep appliance. Custom sleep appliances are easy to use, easy to travel with because they’re small and don’t require electricity and don’t make noise that can disturb a bed partner.
Dentists are not allowed to diagnose sleep apnea, but Dr. Lester and her team are trained to screen patients for signs of sleep disorders. In fact, Dr. Lester has treated patients with snoring and sleep apnea since 2004. “Helping patients sleep better is especially rewarding because I’m a sleep apnea patient myself,” she says.
For these and other services at Healthy Smiles of Birmingham, call today to make an appointment at 205-991-9535.
