Salt Lake City Cosmetic Dentist Blog | Rodney S. Gleave D.M.D.

Amalgam Removed

Dr. Gleave — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:22:07 +0000

Here’s a case Dr Gleave removed all the old silver-mercury fillings and replaced with bonded composite tooth colored fillings. It’s not just more esthetic and natural looking but it’s so much stronger for the tooth and we get the toxic metals out of the body. It is also very common for decay to get around and under the metal filling as it corrodes with time. Dr Gleave found significant decay around all 4 of these teeth that was not evident on the x-ray. By waiting a few more years until the tooth became more sensitive or the enamel cracked it would have been 10X the cost to fix.

Porcelain Veneer Case

Dr. Gleave — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:33:15 +0000

Here’s a case we recently completed. She is a school teacher from Draper. She had had several composite fillings placed on her front teeth and was tired of always redoing them from staining and chipping and wanted a beautiful smile. We placed 8 porcelain veneers on her top front teeth. Note the slight laser recontouring on the front one to even up the gums. We also uprighted the teeth for a straighter, fuller look. She wanted a more natural color to match her lower teeth.

Dr. Gleave Attends LVI Sleep/Breathing Disorders Course

Dr. Gleave — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:27:35 +0000

This was a 3 day program designed for the dentist and team members to become proficient at recognizing the SBD (sleep breathing disorder) patient in your practice, to become comfortable discussing the condition, and to effectively and predictably treat the disorder.
45% of Americans snore; 25% snore habitually; 7% have sleep apnea; and 90% of those remain undiagnosed. If you see 14 patients a day, one of them is among the walking dead, and more than likely, they don’t know they have a problem. Only 24% of physicians bother to screen for sleep disorders. 15 million Americans need our help.
Any dentist can make an anti-snoring appliance for a patient who complains. What you will learn takes you from that rudimentary stage to a level that far surpasses the knowledge of the MD not specializing in sleep disorders. Start protecting your patients from a collapsing airway and an unhealthy existence.

This was a wonderful course with a wealth of information. It was taught by Kent Smith DDS from Dallas Texas who is a very knowlegable and experienced dentist who has been treating SBD for many years. We did an overnight sleep study on all doctors and team members present at the course and evaluated all the data. The more severe cases of sleep apnea need to be treated with cpap and be referred to a sleep clinic but the more mild cases of apnea and snoring can be treated very effectivly with an oral appliance. The consequences of not treating the apnea are; increased depression, increase in hypertension, poor healing, impotence and loss of libedo, memory loss, increase in stress, more frequent urination, weight gain, and acid reflux. Not to mention what it does to your sleep partner.

For more information or an evaluation and sleep study please call us at (801) 262-0744

Single Tooth Implant Case

Dr. Gleave — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:21:26 +0000

. This Salt lake City businesswoman had worn a 1 tooth denture for many years and wanted to have a more permanant solution. She chose a dental implant. Dr Rod Gleave placed the implant with a laser punch and 4 months later placed a porcelain crown on the dental implant. This is a much more conservative and longer lasting option than doing a bridge.

Recent Smile Makeover Case

Dr. Gleave — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:49:25 +0000

This patient is a nurse form Salt Lake. She was not happy with her smile for many years and came to us for advice. She had had some fillings placed on her front teeth and they were stained and she also didn’t like the color, lenght or shape. She also had a crossbite on the left side. We decided the best way to treat the case was to place porcelain veneers on the top 10 teeth and contour the lower left along with some custom whitening. We were able to completely fix the crossbite and she had a beautiful lifetime smile in 2 weeks. Also note the leveling of the gum heights with the laser.

Dr Gleave Awarded LVI Fellowship

Dr. Gleave — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:02:44 +0000

After a 3 years of studying at the Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies Dr Rod Gleave was awarded the LVI fellowship. He completed the 7 core courses focusing on premiere esthetics and cosmetic dentistry, along with extensive training in neuromuscular dentistry. Neuromuscular dentistry helps the patient who has a poor bite or is having TMJ joint pain and headaches. Dr Gleave has purchased the K7 eqipment to help find the best bite position for function and esthetics. For the fellowship 4 diffent patient cases were treated at LVI to demostrate the proficency in understanding the esthetics and function of each case. He also took and passed an written exam. Dr Gleave is the first dentist to pass the LVI fellowship in Salt Lake.

Salt Lake City Cosmetic Dentist Blog

Dr. Gleave — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:07:34 +0000

Rodney S. Gleave D.M.D., a Salt Lake City cosmetic dentist offers his services to those in and around Salt Lake City, Utah.

“I love being a dentist and given the option to go back and choose again, I’d still be a dentist. I’ve been at it for over 20 years and I find dentistry just as challenging and rewarding today as when I was just getting started.”

This is the type of positive attitude that you will find at our office and we promise you won’t find a dental office anywhere that is more serious about providing high quality, esthetic work as we are.

We offer procedures such as dental implants, porcelain veneers, full mouth rehabilitation and teeth whitening along with comprehensive care for the whole family.

Please feel free to visit our blog regularly as Dr. Gleave will often talk about whats new in the field of cosmetic dentistry, featured procedures, general dentistry topics and his opinions and experiences.