Welcome to Bruno Integrative Dentistry where our PASSION is YOU and helping to keep you and your smile HAPPY and HEALTHY FOREVER! Dr. Candace Bruno and her team are fully dedicated to helping each person they see achieve excellent oral health and improved whole-body wellbeing too. All of our patients have unique goals for their smile, and whether youre hoping to undergo the cosmetic makeover of your dreams or a much-needed replacement for missing teeth, youll always be treated as a number one priority here. We sincerely hope that youll contact us today and schedule a first visit.
at Bruno Integrative Dentistry we believe that we should provide care for the entire person and not just the mouth. The mouth is the gateway to all other parts of your body, and there are well-documented links that show how one can influence the other. Dr. Bruno is proud to be a holistic provider who strives to understand dental problems at their source, helping patients achieve long-term improvement beyond simply patching up problems. Your smile and your body will be thankful for this whole body approach to treatment!
Our team isnt just interested in rushing patients in and out the door for the next warm body we want to form a relationship with you that hopefully lasts for years to come. Thats why youll receive plenty of undivided attention from the moment you step through the front door to when youre preparing to leave. Our goal is to fully understand your personal needs, the goals you have for your smile and yourself, any concerns that cause you to visit us so that we can address all of these areas in ways that exceed your expectations.
Even a dentist as well-trained as Dr. Bruno has limits to her abilities. If your treatment goes beyond the scope of her practice, shell turn to her hand selected referrals that include specialists, physicians, a multitude of therapists, and chiropractors to find the most precise care for your specific condition. We will also collaborate with each expert closely over the span of treatment in order to ensure that youre on the right path towards improvement.
Are you overdue for a typical checkup? Have you lost one or more natural teeth and are in search of a lifelike replacement? Have you been dreaming of achieving a smile that turns heads on the street? Dr. Bruno can assist you with all of these goals and so many more here in Austin. Our menu of services covers an incredibly large range of general and specialty options, and we look forward to helping you determine which ones work best for you.
Dr. Candace Bruno attended Temple University School of Dentistry and graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2010. She went directly from dental school to working in private practice offices and a public health clinic in Harlingen, TX from 2010-2015. In 2011 she began attending advanced continuing education courses with world-renowned Spear Education to fine-tune her dental skills.
Dr. Bruno has taken hundreds of hours of Continuing Education that emphasize treating the mouth as a whole instead of on a tooth by tooth basis. Dr. Bruno will look at your teeth for cavities and check for healthy gums and bone. However, Dr. Brunos passion is holistic dentistry. She loves to help her patients find the best quality of life and health possible. She has been trained to evaluate every system involved with the oral cavity: the teeth, the gums, the bone, the joints, and the airway. She believes that in order to treat a patient appropriately, all systems involved need to be taken into consideration. Only after having a clear view of all the systems involved and the personal desires of each patient can one fully formulate a treatment plan that would be best for each patient.
Dr. Bruno fills her time outside the office enjoying life with her twins Mason and Olivia. When shes not doing dentistry or learning about dentistry, she enjoys being outside hiking, biking, doing yoga, and staying active. Dr. Bruno was an avid traveler before becoming a mother and has journeyed to places far and wide.
Holistic dentistry isnt one dental service. Its an entire treatment philosophy. Rather than looking at one problem, like a cavity, and fixing just that problem, holistic dentistry considers the underlying reasons for the cavity and strives to address the root of the problem. For instance, a patient with a cavity may actually have thinner tooth enamel, inadequate at-home hygiene, or an overly sugary diet that all contributed to this one dental problem. When you take the time to determine the underlying causes of specific dental health concerns, you and Dr. Bruno are better equipped to prevent them from recurring.
The field of dentistry has made a major shift in the last several decades from focusing on reacting to tooth decay or damage to a focus on preventing oral health concerns before they begin. Holistic dentistry is the obvious next step. By taking a holistic approach to your dental health, Dr. Bruno and her Austin dentistry team are better able to prevent common oral health issues like tooth decay, gum disease, teeth grinding and clenching (bruxism), and temporomandibular joint (TMJ) dysfunction. In addition to improving your oral health, holistic dentistry also improves your whole body health. Because many of the underlying causes of oral health issues can also affect the whole body, when you make changes to your diet, hygiene routine, and health habits to improve your smile, youre simultaneously improving overall health.
To better understand holistic dentistry, you may want to consider how it effects individual treatment plans rather than just looking at how the philosophy applies to the dental field as a whole. One example of how holistic dentistry can improve your smile and your overall health is in treating unconscious teeth grinding and clenching referred to clinically as bruxism. This common oral health concern effects numerous patients of all ages, and in the past, it was rarely treated at all. Today, patients who struggle with bruxism will typically receive mouthguards to wear during sleep. This is an improvement over foregoing treatment altogether, but holistic dentistry digs deeper to find the root of the problem. Many patients with bruxism have a misaligned bite that leads them to constantly move teeth around looking for the best resting position or apply excessive pressure to over compensate for the misalignment. Others, struggle to properly cope with stress and anxiety, which then leads them to grind or clench their teeth. Still others experienced incorrect dental development due to tongue thrust, continuing thumb sucking and other habits into advanced age, or damage to the jaw during dental development. Each of these potential causes of bruxism is very different, but all of these patients would receive the same treatment from a traditional dental care provider. A holistic dentist will help patients determine the underlying cause and address this issue.
