Health Safety Protocols

To Our Valued Patients at Surprise Smiles,

Welcome! We are open, looking forward to seeing returning patients, accepting new patients, and operating under normal business hours! The Arizona Department of Health Services (AZDS) is still not recommending any type of closures or modification in hours. We will continue to monitor information coming from both the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and AZDHS and keep you apprised of any changes or updates. We will stay on top of this information and bring it to you as soon as possible through our website, email, and social media.

As we continue to navigate through the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, our dentists and dental team want to assure you that we are continuing to do our best to make sure it a priority that we are following the latest health and safety guidelines from the CDC, specifically as they relate to the dental industry. We value keeping our patients and staff members safe and comfortable.

As part of our daily standard health and safety protocols, our office follows ‘Universal Precautions’ in order to protect our patients and our staff. These are precautions we have always taken, and are not new. By taking ‘universal precautions’ means we always assume that anyone could potentially be carrying a contagious and dangerous disease. We therefore follow strict guidelines to prevent the transmission of any potential disease, be it COVID-19 (Coronavirus), hepatitis, tuberculosis, HIV, or any other disease. This has been a standard of care we follow, per the CDC, in regard to blood borne pathogens.

These measures include:
• strict hand washing protocols

• use of (single use) disposable protective equipment and barriers

• thorough disinfection of exposed or potentially exposed surfaces after every patient visit

• disinfection and high-heat steam sterilization of instruments and routine monitoring of sterilization verification

• continued education on infection control

Specific to COVID-19 (Coronavirus) we have added in additional precautionary and cleaning measures including:
• disinfecting common surface areas every 30 minutes

• providing hand sanitizer in common areas

• screening everyone who enters our offices based on CDC recommendations

• offering preprocedural mouth rinse

As state and national health and safety regulations change and evolve during these times, Surprise Smiles is dedicated to monitoring and evaluating our dental practice and office space for any potential risks as we serve our patients and community. We strive to maintain an approach to our dentistry services that is both safe and beneficial to everyone we serve.

We strive to provide a safe, healthy, comfortable, and relaxed environment for everyone that comes into our dental office. We follow the American Dental Association’s Update to Office Procedures During COVID-19 in regard to safe office procedures, workplace hazards, and making decisions for best office practices. We stay informed on recent information given to dentists in this regard, as well as keeping up to date with any changes recommended by the CDC.

Please let us know if you have any questions in regard to our health and safety protocols here at Surprise Smiles. We recognize that it can be challenging during these unprecedented times of COVID-19. We all want to get back to our normal lives, and we will be able to do so, in a safe, wise, and healthy manner. We will be happy to answer any questions that you may have in regard to our dental practice health and safety protocols, cleaning, and disinfecting procedures we follow.

Thank you for continuing to be a valued patient here at Bradshaw Family Dental. We look forward to continuing to serve you and your dental needs through the various services we provide for you, from preventive dentistry, restorative dentistry, cosmetic dentistry, pediatric dentistry, sedation dentistry, dental implants and more!

Is Your Tooth Going Numb?

Posted on 10/10/2018 by Dr. Andrew Zeiger

Feeling numbness in your teeth could indicate a more severe condition, and you should not ignore this symptom. The teeth are made of the enamel, the visible and hardest layer of the tooth.

Right under the enamel, you have the dentin, and below that is the pulp, where the blood vessels and nerves are. When something hurts, the brain receives signals from that area in the body, and you feel pain. When a tooth goes numb, you could be ignoring more severe conditions.

Your teeth behave like any other bone in your body and can hurt for several reasons. The loss of feeling in your tooth could mean that tooth is no longer alive.

How to Prevent a Tooth from Dying

The best way to prevent a tooth from becoming numb and dying is with preventive care that we provide. In cases such as trauma, it could be inevitable to lose a tooth, but we will always do all we can with the technology we have available to save your tooth.

When you have a cavity, the enamel is weakened, and you are at higher risk for tooth decay. As the cavity grows, your enamel will become weaker, and the corrosion will eventually reach the inner part of the tooth. At some point, the decay will start destroying the nerves and blood vessels that support the tooth and allow it to get the minerals and nutrients it needs to survive.

While pain is not the first sign of a cavity, with time, and as the enamel wears off, the decay will produce sensitivity and pain when you eat certain foods. You should be very concerned when you no longer feel your tooth because this usually means it is dead. To prevent numbness in your tooth from happening, we urge you to come in for an examination. In many cases, the tooth can be saved.

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