Our Approach And Instrumentation

Welcome to Pearl Street Dental's web site and to a fascinating introduction to a paradigm shift in dentistry.

We offer over 25 years of experience and a unique combination of using surgical operating microscopes and lasers to treat the dental tissues.

Pearl Street Dental has a friendly and dedicated staff committed to making your dental experience an excellent one. We are committed to our patient's overall well being and can offer comprehensive care.

With our microscope and laser technology we can offer treatments with fewer needles, numbing and drills. We focus on minimally invasive dentistry enhanced by these new wonderful breakthroughs.

Dr. Higgins and his staff pursue continuing education and embrace the finest proven technologies available to dentistry. This combination of passion, continuing education, state of the art technology and a genuine concern to treat patients with the highest standard of care is what makes Pearl Street Dental so special. Our current continuing education programs are focused on implant technology, Invisalign Orthodontics and laser applications as well as new techniques in oral cancer screening, and finally digital intra-oral imaging and documentation.

 

The benefits for our patients include;

The lasers we use utilize light energy and 'activated' hyperkinetic water molecules to remove decay and diseased tissue. There is no heat, no vibration and very little noise. The laser has the ability to sculpt the gum tissue, remove decay and shape the tooth. Light and water molecules are much kinder to the tooth than a drill, so the nerve inside the tooth experiences less trauma of friction, heat and the potential cracking that comes with a drill. Lasers are fantastic. They have created a paradigm shift in the basic dental sciences. We use diode lasers as well as hard tissue water lasers. If you are interested in learning more about Biolase Lasers, click here to visit their site.

The high power microscopes used to visualize and treat patients at Pearl Street Dental are amazing and invaluable tools. They allow us to magnify and illuminate dental problems like never before. We are better able to see cracks and dental decay. The surgical operating microscopes have still and video camera capabilities and allow unparalleled avenues of communication with our patients. These digital devices allow the practitioner and the patient to "be on the same page." We encourage our patients to understand what is proposed and how we should proceed. Microscopes allow Dr. Higgins to see and record very accurately and to log images into the patient's permanent record. It is a very solid and very advanced set of protocols that Pearl Street Dental is using. These microscopes aid us in all phases of our dentistry. See our technology section for an in-depth looks at these exciting new tools.

Thank you for visiting our site. Inside you will find different ways to contact us as well as learn more about our unique approach to dentistry and why we are so excited about these new technologies and vastly enhanced results.