“We tend to see a lot of patients that are very anxious and very scared,” practice owner Dr. Davis said. “We always tell patients, ‘I don't care about anything else except getting you healthy, however we need to do that. I will meet you where you are.’”
Dr. Davis serves as a member of the Academy of General Dentistry, and she is an earnest and practical dental care provider. Her practice follows suit by taking things as they come, approaching each case with compassion.
The practice offers an array of dental services, including:
- Sedation dentistry services
- Dental implants and fixed implant dentures
- Same-day dental crowns
- Treatments for temporomandibular joint, or TMJ, disorder
- Cosmetic dentistry, including Invisalign
Overcoming dental anxieties
Dr. Davis’s practice is unique not only in its comprehensive expertise and patient-first approach, but in its willingness to attend to patients' psychological and emotional needs while also caring for their oral health. Dr. Davis takes these cases personally and was traumatized as a child by traumatic dental extractions. Her goal is to never increase the patient’s dental trauma but to decrease it as much as possible.
By the time she graduated high school, she knew that her calling was the health profession—she had a deep empathy for others alongside a strong desire to keep people healthy. In an unexpected turn of events her first year of college, she discovered a passion for dentistry.
“I started looking at [dentistry as a potential career choice],” Dr. Davis said. “I like the artistic aspect of it, in terms of helping people smile more confidently and really changing people's lives with their smiles. I started researching and shadowing, and here I am.”
Although she’s spent over a decade in the profession, Dr. Davis still feels apprehensive about receiving dental work due to her past. She believes it makes her a better dentist.
“I am pretty scared of the dentist myself,” Dr. Davis said. “But the work still has to be done, unfortunately.”
To make patients more comfortable, the practice offers sedation dentistry, with a number of patient comfort options, including:
- Nitrous, or laughing gas
- Conscious sedation
- General anesthesia
- Local anesthesia
“I do about 95% of my implant surgeries fully guided,” Dr. Davis said.
Committed to quality care
Dr. Davis and her team engage patients early on about the state of their oral health as well as their cosmetic, restorative and other goals. These conversations cover patients’ comfort levels with dental treatment, including options for sedation and managing discomfort. During these conversations, Dr. Davis makes clear that no aesthetic or cosmetic treatment will last unless the patient’s teeth and supportive tissues are in good health.
“If your bones and gums around your teeth are not stable, it does not matter how pretty your veneer is. It does not matter how white your teeth are. There is still a disease process occurring,” Dr. Davis said. “That veneer tooth is going to end up becoming mobile or loose, and at that point, we've got a much bigger problem.”
Dr. Davis makes clear that while patients are often tempted to pursue aesthetics first, opting to put oral health second, it’s simply not an option for patients to put off necessary dental work. Her practice emphasizes prevention—the best route to affordable, minimally invasive dental care for patients. She also reminds patients that dentistry is not necessarily expensive, but neglect is.
To learn more about Dr. Davis and her practice, visit the website today and call 972-231-4876.
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