Center For Advanced Dentistry - Nashville, TN

Dr. White's training at LVI - Las Vegas Institute of Advanced Dental Studies - provides his patients with comprehensive oral health rejuvenating results.

Healing & Harmony through Art & Science – “Neuromuscular dentistry is especially important for those who are considering a smile makeover or who are experiencing oral and facial pain. ”

Correct Jaw Position – Neuromuscular Dentistry differs from common dental practices. Traditionally and currently, dentists tend to focus on the teeth and joints. The neuromuscular approach goes further and bases much of its success on getting the muscles and nerves to coexist correctly between your teeth and joints.

By objectively and scientifically measuring muscle function in respect to jaw posture, and evaluating jaw movement and function, the optimal resting posture of your jaw can be determined.

Why is Neuromuscular Dentistry so important? Without the teeth, facial muscles and jaw joints in harmonious balance, people can develop painful complications: known by some as TMJ or TMD. The relaxing of muscles and tension often create an effect like a rejuvenating facelift. A more youthful look and enhanced comfort is the result.

Attention to Details – Achieving success for every patient requires time, patience and, most of all, covering all the bases. Utilizing computerized diagnostic tools, focusing on the details, and maintaining a high-level of training makes it possible to improve how people feel about their teeth, oral comfort and dentistry in general. Consistent, predictable results allow patients to experience relief from perhaps decades of pain.

Even if patients don't come with specific pain issues and are just seeking restorative and cosmetic enhancements, preliminary evaluations in the neuromuscular approach are followed to uncover any problems that might occur in a smile makeover.

Full-Mouth Treatment – Conservative full-mouth reconstruction (preserving as much natural tooth structure as possible) can reclaim your oral health. Full-mouth treatment is used in combination with NMD to attain oral/facial comfort and proper function for the long-term.

The Neuromuscular Dentistry Focus – As Dr. Kent White of Nashville, TN explains, "It is important to treat the whole patient not just their teeth. This is not one-tooth-at-time, erratic patchwork dentistry; neuromuscular dentistry with full mouth treatment is planned, enduring success, which includes a beautiful, natural smile. ”

Melanie's Center for Advanced Dentistry Patient TMD Success Story:
"I was told I would need to take out one of my upper right molars due to severe decay and I wanted to get a second opinion to see if it could be saved. I had also gone through braces to correct a lot of problems and I noticed I was chipping some of my front teeth and they were uneven. I knew this was to only get worse as I aged.

It was after a consultation with Dr. White that I came to realize a lot of things could be further corrected and/or changed in only a couple of visits. I was allowed time to evaluate my options and I chose to completely redo my entire mouth…in one visit! "

I saved my upper molar, corrected my cross bite, removed my silver fillings and had my smile restored and temporized all in one morning! It was amazingly painless and nice to accomplish so much at one time. "

> Also known as Esthetic, Aesthetic or Cosmetic Dentistry

“Staying informed means offering the best. ” This credo has kept Dr. White in the forefront of modern dentistry. Being closely involved with the Las Vegas Institute of Advanced Studies (LVI) has kept Dr. White in the forefront of comprehensive dentistry.

Because people today are more health conscious and aware of how their smile can impact their confidence, Dr. White’s expertise fills a void in this region that dentistry just hasn’t provided until now. He has pioneered the use of metal-free ceramics and porcelain for crowns and veneers and resin restorative procedures instead of silver/mercury fillings.

When an instructor at the prestigious Las Vegas Institute, he shared his expertise in creating beautiful new smiles. While at the LVI, he taught and mentored the top dentists in the world in the science and art of aesthetic dentistry. Currently, only one percent of dentists pursues this level of training.

Dr. Kent E. White (DDS) focuses on both achieving long-term health and natural-looking beauty. He teaches dentists the value of conservative, metal-free dentistry, and how to rehabilitate a smile and straighten teeth using non-orthodontic alignment. Finally, he uses his background in neuromuscular dentistry to offer you proper balance for pain free function.

Specific Treatments Include.

Laser Bonded ‘Fillings’
No more silver/mercury fillings! No more metal! Natural-looking, advanced restorative resins bond with your teeth, which means we can save more of your tooth.

Smile Whitening
Whitening should be performed only on a healthy smile.

At our Nashville office, we provide two kinds of smile whitening. One method takes about two weeks to complete. The other method offers our patients a convenient alternative - it takes about one hour.

Porcelain Veneers
This smile transforming treatment can straighten, whiten, lengthen and widen teeth. Veneers.

• Can ‘Straighten’ many teeth/smiles typically in two visits

• Are Specially crafted to look and feel like natural teeth (veneers aren’t ‘caps’)

• Are Created for, and molecularly bonded to, each tooth, you get a durable, long lasting solution

• Are Used on any tooth in the mouth - often helping us avoid crowns

• Have been around for 20 years - they’re a proven, reliable option

Porcelain Inlays/Onlays
This treatment gives our patients an intermediate option. Standard silver/mercury fillings and metal-based crowns used to be our only options to save natural teeth.

Tooth Contouring/Bonding
Bonding material is used to create a tight and durable ‘seal’ at the molecular level in many types of modern restorations. We also use the term bonding for a specific type of treatment that can transform your smile - aesthetic bonding or contouring. It is a very conservative therapy - little if any natural tooth is affected and it's life-like in appearance.

Porcelain Bridges
No longer do we need to offer solutions that are very obviously ‘dental’ in look and feel. Porcelain bridges are so amazingly translucent and natural looking that a dentist wouldn’t be able notice the difference without very close inspection. Of course, it takes precision and artistry to make it happen.

Dental Implants - instead of removable dentures
Teeth lost to periodontal (gum) disease, decay or trauma can be restored back to natural function with dental implants. Bite like you did many years ago. With modern aesthetic materials, we can also recreate a youthful and vibrant smile to go with that new lease on life.

Advanced Smile Dentistry
Gum line Reshaping
Dr. Kent White likes to think of gum tissue as the ‘matting framing the artwork of your smile. ’ He can create an aesthetically perfect look. Don’t let a gummy smile keep you from smiling and expressing your inner confidence.

Porcelain Crowns – beautiful, strong
Porcelain crowns are the epitome of esthetic and restorative excellence and quality when treating severely damaged teeth. We believe we craft them with an artistic sense and place them with extraordinary precision. However, we try to go to this option as the last possible solution to saving a natural tooth and root.

See porcelain inlays/onlays or veneers solutions that help us avoid this last resort.

Dr. Kent E. White, DDS
Center for Advanced Dentistry

www. WhiteSmilesForLife. com
www. WhiteSmiles4Life. com

2300 21st Avenue South, Suite 103
Nashville, TN 37212
(615) • 383-6787

I just wanted to send a note to let you know what a difference my new smile has made in my life. As cheesy as that sounds, I can’t fully explain this with words and for people who have not had to experience this then I don’t know that they would fully understand. I don’t think an e-mail is going to adequately describe this but I thought I would try to jot some things down so that you can use any or all of this as a testimonial.

My experience with the whole process has been extremely easy and virtually pain free. Initially, I was very nervous about the entire process as you know and it took me some time to decide based on the financial investment. You guys did a phenomenal job! I appreciate your personal attention to my needs and wants and all the hard work that you all put into helping me. I would recommend Dr. White and your office to anyone. I feel very fortunate that I stumbled across your website. So thank you very much for making my smile makeover such an easy experience.

I can’t even describe the change this has made in my outlook and attitude. The physical appearance is obvious, but the change in my countenance and confidence level has been dramatic. So dramatic even my closet friends have commented on it. While I feel that I was a happy and confident person before, I don’t think that I displayed it in my attitude or the way that I carried myself. And now my confidence and happiness is very evident. The ease with which I can smile now and feel confident about my smile is incredible. I have had people I work with joke with me and tell me that I look way too happy now and that I smile too much. My family, friends and coworkers have all been very supportive of me, and this change.

You know that I have lived with the tetracycline staining for 36 years. This past summer for the first time in my life, I have had people that I don’t even know actually comment on what a pretty smile that I have. Again, I hate to be repetitive but what an incredible feeling it is to have anyone compliment me on something that I have been so self-conscious about my entire life.

When we were doing the temporary teeth part of my treatment you asked me if I had any regrets. I can honestly say that I have had no regret at all. The time and money that I have invested have been well worth it and I would do it all over again without any hesitation. If anything, I should have had the smile makeover earlier but maybe it is just all about timing.

Anyway, I think I have rambled enough. The only other thing that I can say is thank you Dr. White and your team.

NMD Success Story

Success Story #3 - Melanie
"I was told I would need to take out one of my upper right molars due to severe decay and I wanted to get a second opinion to see if it could be saved. I had also gone through braces to correct a lot of problems and I noticed I was chipping some of my front teeth and they were uneven. I knew this was to only get worse as I aged.

It was after a consultation with Dr. White that I came to realize a lot of things could be further corrected and/or changed in only a couple of visits. I was allowed time to evaluate my options and I chose to completely redo my entire mouth…in one visit!"

I saved my upper molar, corrected my cross bite, removed my silver fillings and had my smile restored and temporized all in one morning! It was amazingly painless and nice to accomplish so much at one time."

Correct Jaw Position – Neuromuscular Dentistry (NMD) differs from common dental practices. Traditionally and currently, dentists tend to focus on the teeth and joints. The neuromuscular approach goes further and bases much of its success on getting the muscles and nerves to coexist correctly between your teeth and joints