Considering a New Dentist Our Story My Seminole Dentist Sandra Lilo DDS, PA Seminole FL
Dr. Sandra Lilo, My Seminole Dentist 8300 113th St North Seminole FL 33772 727-398-7473
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Sandra Jean Lilo hails from Chicago, Illinois and was born into a family full of inspiration! A prodigy of two extremely hard working parents, Sandra quickly learned that life was hers for the taking. Giving credit to her Dad as being the biggest influence in her life during her formative years, she fondly recalls him constantly showering her with praise while mentoring her on the use of power tools and the importance of fixing things around the house. His favorite, and often repeated saying was, “You can be anything you want to be.”
The mouth is a sea of bacteria, and under certain conditions disease causing bacteria can become dominant, creating infection. These bacteria live together in what is called biofilm. This biofilm plays host to a mixed type of infection made up of bacteria, viruses, fungi and even parasites. The complication is that each of these disease causing types needs a different drug to eliminate its dominance. We now offer a cutting edge dental therapy that can treat and eliminate infection while supporting the surrounding healthy tissue without toxic side effects. It is called ozone therapy and it may very well revolutionize denistry!
Ozone is a gas that kills bacteria, viruses and fungi within seconds. It has been used for over a hundred years as a common water and air purifier. To put it simply, ozone is just an energized form of oxygen totally non-allergenic. The treatment is fast, simple, and completely pain free.
We use it in our office after we remove decay to eliminate any pathogens we cannot see which might reirifect and do derange to a tooth before we done a filling as a result, the need for root canol treatments on even large fillings has gone down ‘0%’.
We realize that on occasion people get very nervous about a dental visit.
For those patients, we have optional oral sedation by giving a prescription for one dose of oral sedative prior to the appointment.
Our post operative precautions are listed on the Post Operative Instructions page.
If you require an oral sedative to help you with a dental procedure, please discuss this with the doctor at your examination or consultation visit.
Clenching anad grinding of teeth is a common occurrence, more common then people realize. And, frequently, we don’t recognize it is happening.
Most often the habit occurs at night and we call it nocturnal bruxism. It can be connected to obstructive sleep apnea and if we feel that is a possibility for you, we may recommend an apnea evaluation by a physician.
Evidence of clenching or grinding (bruxism) includes worn or chipped teeth, sensitive teeth, especially to cold, notches at the gumline on teeth, receding gums and several existing crowns on teeth especially posterior teeth.
To protect the teeth we recommend occlusal guards sometimes called biteguards or nightguards. If the clenching or bruxism is connected to sleep apnea and you already wear a CPAP we may still recommend guard protection as a CPAP is not designed to stop this occlusal habit.
Fortunately for those who rely on dental insurance to help with their costs, insurance companies are more frequently covering protective appliances perhaps realizing that it is cheaper to prevent tooth fracture and loss which may require more expensive root canals, crowns or implants.
Even for an uninsured patient, prevention of tooth and jaw damage with an occlusal guard may save your teeth, jaw joints and wallet so you might consider an occlusal guard as a good choice to preserve your dental health. https://myseminoledentist.com. / drsandralilo
Crowns and onlays may be used in our office as a replacemnt for older defective crowns, crowned teeth with new decay, as a protective restoration over root canal treated teeth and teeth with minimal supportive tooth structure, cracked teeth and over teeth that lack enough hard tooth structure to reliably support a filling in a patient with a history of breaking teeth and fillings usually due to bruxism (clenching and grinding).
Crowns can be made of several materials: all metal, including all gold color, porcelain fused to metal, and all ceramic.
As ceramic crowns grow in popularity they are being used more and more. There is a new concern developing on some ceramics and their hardness harming opposing teeth. Most of the all ceramic patients in our office wear bite protectors at night to compensate for bite pressures of up to 1300 pounds per square inch as observed in some who night clench and grind.
During Professional School, we, as dentists, benefit from studying medicine before we separate off to specialize on the head, neck and oral cavity including teeth.
In our studies we cover:
Anatomy
Physiology
Neurology
Biochemistry
Neuroanatomy
Microbiology
Dr. Sandra Lilo, My Seminole Dentist 727-398-7473