Alla, our full-time hygienist, is best known for her kind and caring manner, Alla is in charge of helping our patients develop and maintain their teeth.Alla enjoys creating a great rapport with her patients through listening carefully to her patients concerns and goals, and helping them to achieve their best possible oral health through the combination of skilled services in the office, as well as an effective home-care routine.
Cathy was drawn to Dentistry through her passion of truly wanting to help people understand the importance of why complete oral care is so beneficial to their overall health. She has a strong desire to learn the latest advancements in dental care. Cathy enjoys getting to know her patients, working one-on-one with them, and educating them about proper dental care. Her patients can always expect a comfortable experience and trust Cathy to provide correct, unbiased information, along with a gentle, yet thorough cleaning.
Ellen is passionate about helping people achieve a healthy mouth. She loves cleaning teeth and educating patients on how to keep their mouth healthy and clean. She also enjoys staying up to date on current oral hygiene research and a trend, which helps her provide patients with the best advice on how to maintain good oral hygiene.
Friendly and helpful, Michelle is usually the first smiling face you see when you come to our office. With over 30 years experience dealing with insurance, treatment plans and payment plans, Michelle is a treasured resource for making everything run smoothly. Michelle views our patients as family and aims to make them feel right at home.Her friendly and compassionate persona has lent itself well to our administrative team.
Lucy can be found at both our Nyack location. Lucy is bilingual and can help assist our Spanish speaking patients. She strives every day to improve her skills in order to guarantee her patients the best experience and highest quality treatment. She takes pride in her job and works closely with Dr. Bodie to make each visit as efficient as possible.
Jasmine is our knowledgeable and caring assistant who is here to ensure a pleasant experience during your visit. She is a dedicated individual that will help aidDr. Bodiein the process of completing your dental treatments and will be at your side through-out your time here.
An implant supported bridge is a restorative solution for spaces where three or more adjacent teeth are missing. This restoration typically requires two implants to support the porcelain bridge. The bridge provides a functional and aesthetic replacement for a patients natural teeth.
For patients who are missing many or all of their teeth, implant supported dentures may be an alternative to traditional dentures. This solution requires the placement of two or more implants. In order to replace a full arch denture, a minimum of four implants is generally recommended. Eligibility for this solution is dependent upon a number of factors, with jaw bone density being one of the most significant determining factors.
Traditional dentures rely on an acrylic base that sits directly on the gums, held in place by a paste or adhesive. Using implants as supports for dentures allows for a smaller and more comfortable base and less shifting of the prosthesis during use.
Implants can support both full and partial dentures as well as both fixed and removable dentures.If a removable denture is selected, the denture will snap on to the implant rather than requiring the use of denture paste or adhesives.
This procedure is a unique implant solution that allows patients with a completely edentulous (toothless) upper or lower arch to replace all of the teeth in that arch using only four implants as anchors.
There are times when a full size implant is not a viable option, and in many cases an MDI may be a great solution. Small spaces or inadequate bone mass in the jaw may prevent the use of traditional implants. Mini Dental Implants are similar to regular implants but, as the name suggests, are significantly smaller in diameter. Dental implants typically take 2 visits and require a waiting period of a few months from the time of implant placement to the time the permanent replacement tooth can be placed. The placement of MDIs is minimally invasive, often requiring only local anesthetic and no sutures. For this reason, MDIs can often be placed with the final replacement toothin one day.
With this technique, specialized software is used to create custom surgical guides. These guides direct the exact location, angle, and depth of each implant placement. The use of the guide increases the accuracy, efficiency, safety, and predictability of the procedure.
This advanced system uses a custom-made series of aligners created for you and only you. These aligner trays are made of smooth, comfortable and virtually invisible plastic that you wear over your teeth. Wearing the aligners will gradually and gently shift your teeth into place, based on the exact movements your dentist or orthodontist plans out for you. There are no metal brackets to attach and no wires to tighten. You just pop in a new set of aligners approximately every two weeks, until your treatment is complete. Youll achieve a great smile with little interference in your daily life. The best part about the whole process is that most people wont even know youre straightening your teeth.
Impressions have traditionally involved making a mold of your teeth using trays filled with a soft, messy, and often bad-tasting material that would harden around the patients teeth and gums, creating a precise model that is then used by the doctors and the lab to plan treatment and create final restorations.
The digital intraoral scanner provides a new, comfortable, and precise way for our office to take digital impressions of patients teeth. Taking accurate impressions of a patients teeth is a highly important part of a large number of dental and orthodontic procedures.