As our patient, you are our most important asset. You are truly a vital member of our practice, and we understand that without you, we wouldn’t be here! We are grateful for the opportunity to serve you and your family and hope to exceed all of your expectations.
Our goal is to strive for excellence in everything we do. Our doctors and staff keep up to date with the most recent advancements through continuing education.
Our state-of-the-art treatment options are designed with your unique needs and goals in mind. Treatment options include the Damon® System and Damon Clear™ braces as well as Invisalign® and Invisalign Teen®. For your convenience, we offer in-office digital radiography using a Planmeca Promax for panoramic and cephalometric images. With an iTero digital scanner, we are able to get extremely accurate digital models for Invisalign treatment, study models, and some types of retainers, without the need for traditional impressions.
We want our office to be a pleasant place to visit and a place where you will feel at home. Please contact our office to schedule your consultation.
When our office is closed, a team member can be reached at 408-500-1027.
Hi Amazing Patients and Families,
We want to do everything we can to make sure our patients are continuing to progress in their treatment during this unprecedented time. We will get through this together!
We want to provide some guidance to keep your orthodontic treatment on track. The following information serves as a reference for specific appliances you may currently have.
Oral Hygiene and Food Restrictions
- Do everything you can to maintain excellent oral hygiene. We recommend brushing at least twice a day and flossing every day. As a practical guide, when you are done brushing, look under and over the brackets to make sure nothing is in the area under the brackets where the tooth touches the gums!
- Please, stay away from any hard or sticky foods (e.g. nuts, toffee, and chewing gum) to avoid unnecessary breakages to your appliances.
Braces
- Remember that you are using Damon self-ligating braces!
- The little ties that sometimes go around braces are not necessary to make Damon braces work.
- This means that wires can continue to work over longer periods of time!
- Even if we can’t see you in person and change wires, your Damon braces (in combination with the wires we use) can stay active on the teeth for months at a time!
Separators/Spacers
- If a separator/spacer falls out on its own, do not worry. This is not a significant issue and we will adjust your subsequent appointments accordingly, when appropriate.
- Maintain excellent hygiene around a separator in place or simply floss it out if it is bugging you!
Rapid Palatal Expander or Skeletal MSE expanders
- Stop turning after achieving the previously prescribed turns. We want to make sure we closely monitor progress. We will make up the turns when we can see you again in person.
- Make sure to keep the expander especially clean by brushing and rinsing after meals.
- If your gums are irritated, warm salt water rinses may help soothe irritated gums.
Elastics-
- You can keep wearing your rubber bands as prescribed.
- If your bite feels uncomfortable or something in your bite doesn’t feel right then stop the rubber band wear and contact us if you have any questions.
Reverse pull Facemask/Headgear
- You can continue to wear your appliance as prescribed.
- These appliances are made to work over long periods of time.
- If you have questions or concerns about how your bite is changing, contact us to talk.
Invisalign
- Make sure you are continuing to wear trays for 20+ hours a day.
- We want you to get every bit of movement out of every tray to efficiently continue to move teeth:
- Chewies in areas that are a bit ‘stubborn’ can help
- Add days as needed to trays if you feel you can get more movement out of an existing tray
- If you think you may run out of trays before we can see you again, try and spread them out a bit longer so they stay as ‘fresh and clean’ as possible
- If you are on your last tray, it is okay to wear it nights to hold
- Let us know if you don’t have enough trays! If you are running out of trays and we have some at the office we can mail them to you, please contact us to let us know.
- Lastly, save your old trays so that you can always make sure you have a tray to wear to at least hold before we can see you again to make sure we don’t move backwards.
Retainers
- Continue wearing your retainers as prescribed
As a reminder, if you have a dental emergency, please call our emergency line at 408-500-1027. We are open from 9 to 12 (M-F) for emergencies only (we may alter these hours so check our website and Facebook page). If you have a scheduling or non-emergency question, please email us at [email protected] or text us at 844-303-4275.
Everybody be safe, support your family and community and we will get through this together!
Thinking about all of you,
The Team at Phelps & Cohen Orthodontics
