We hope you are doing well and staying warm during this fall chill.  Hopefully good food, friends and family are part of your plans for these holidays.  We wanted to just send a note with some updates to our practice. 

Use it or lose it! 

The Holiday Season is upon us. As a reminder if you have dental treatment you have put on hold, now may be a good time to schedule an appointment to maximize your insurance benefits and use any remaining flex account dollars you may have. Our Holiday Season does book quickly, so call us today to schedule your appointment.

Meet our newest team member!

Please come on by to welcome our newest memeber of our Complete Care Dental family! We are so excited to have Patricia Villagomez as part of our team.  She is an excellent dental assistant.  She is compassionate, warm and does everything she can to make your experience at our office the best possible. 

More new technology for our office.  

In addition to the computers and digital x-rays in each exam room, we now have a digital intra-oral camera.  Come by and learn more about what exactly is going on in your mouth and see what we can see up close and personal! 

Almost there!

Our office is slowly but surely coming along after our accident a couple months ago.  Already the front waiting area has become larger and we have huge windows to let the warm sunshine in.  We're very excited about the new improvements we have with our office, and we would love for you to come by and see the new changes. We also want to thank you for your patience and compassion towards us as we manenuver through the construction and rebuilding process.  

If there is anything we can do to assist you, please do not hesitate to contact us. 

We wish you and your family the best. Have a Happy Holiday!

If you have visited or driven by our office, you may have noticed a big change to our building.  On July 21st, early morning, there was an accident.  A car drove through our front wall and destroyed our waiting room.  Thankfully no got hurt and no one was in the office at the time.  The local news even picked up on it.

As a result of this, we will have to rebuild the front and side faces of Complete Care Dental.  Our contractors have sealed off the front building and created a temporary front door on the side of the building for patients.  We were able to re-open Thursday, July 31. 

We are in the process of finalizing the design, and hope to complete construction within 2-3 months.  Please visit again for updates.

We thank all of you, our patients, for your well wishes, and apologize for the hassles caused by the construction.

Before the accident (click for larger picture):

After boarding up the walls - Inside (click for larger picture):

After boarding up the walls - Outside (click for larger picture):

Complete Care Dental is proud introduce Digital X-Rays (radiographs)!

Digital X-Rays offer many benefits to our patients:

• Environmentally friendly - no more chemicals, paper film, and lead foil that can harm the environment
• Lower radiation levels than traditional X-Rays
• Easy viewing - images appear on our 19" computer monitors in each room, that we can then show to our patients
• Faster turnaround - the X-Rays appear instantly on the screen

To learn more, please give us a call or come in to visit.

Complete Care Dental has been very busy reaching out into the community. 

Since early April 2008, they have visited the fourth grade classes of Shields Elementary, Columbia Explorers Elementary, and Edwards Elementary Schools in the Brighton Park and Archer Heights neighborhoods of Chicago.   Through class presentations they have reached out to over 400 4th grade students!

They learned about:

• How to brush and floss their teeth
• The importance of a healthy diet and including foods from the four food groups
• Why it is important to stay away from juice and pop and to drink water and low-fat milk instead
• The importance of visiting the dentist twice a year

Each student received a goody bag with a toothbrush, pencil and information to take home to their families.

Do you want straighter teeth, but do not want braces?  Complete Care Dental is proud to offer Invisalign!  The Invisalign system uses a series of clear, removable aligners to move your teeth over time and give you the smile that you deserve.

Usted desea tener sus dientes más alineados pero no quiere usar frenos?  En Complete Care Dental nos enorgullesemos en ofrecer Invisalign!

Invisalign is a series of clear, removable, plastic retainers that are custom-made for your teeth.  You wear each pair of aligners for a two-week period, allowing your teeth to gradually move.  Because it is virtually clear, people around you won't even notice that you are wearing them!  Since there are no brackets or wires, it is so comfortable that you may not even know that you are wearing them also.

El sistema de Invisalign es una serie de alineadores transparentes y removibles que son hechos especialmente para cada paciente.  Usted usa cada para de alineadores por un periodo de dos semanas, permitiéndole a sus dientes que se muevan gradualmente.  Debido a que son virtualmente transaparentes, las personas a su alredeor ni siquiera notarán que usted los está usando!  Y debido a que no tendrá frenos ni alambres, su uso es tan cómodo que usted mismo probablemente se olvidará que los trae puestos.

Since the retainers are removable, you are free to take them out when you want - eating, drinking, or even when you just need a break.

Debido a que los retenedores son removibles, usted es libre de quitárselos cuando cuando usted esté comiendo, bebiendo, o bien cuando simplemente lo quiera.

Treatment length varies, but often will require less than one year to complete.

La duración del tratamiento varía, pero en la mayoría de los casos se requiere menos de un año para terminarlo.

Please call or stop by to ask about how Invisalign will bring out your real smile today!

Por favor llámenos o pase a la oficina y pregunte a cerca de cómo Invisalign puede cambiar su sonrisa el día de hoy!

Invisalign is a registered trademark of Align Technologies, Inc.