Our team of experts are here to ensure that your visit is as calming and comfortable as a day at the spa. At Livonia Family Dentalwe are not only concerned with your dental health, but your entire well being.
Our mission is to provide quality life-time dental care in a professional, caring, and comfortable environment. We are confident that our services and our friendly, compassionate staff will exceed your expectations and make you feel right at home.
We offer personalized, state-of-the-art preventive dental care to patients of all ages. Our aim is to work together as a team to customize a care plan tailored specifically for you. We strive to establish long-lasting relationships with all our patients. Your family is our family too!
Another important factor that sets us apart from other dental offices in the area is our motivation to give back to the Livonia community we have been a part of for so many years. Annually, we hold our Dentistry From the Heart event that allows us to give patients their choice of a free filling, cleaning or extraction. Our office has held this event for six years now and we love the opportunity to give back to those that dont have access to dental care and/or dental insurance. Additionally, we donate to many local organizations including local schools and local veterans organizations.
We strive to bring the latest technology to provide our patients with the best possible oral care available. This technology allows us to diagnose and treat patients safely and comfortably, while giving them the best possible results.
These are state-of-the-art technologies that detects abnormal oral mucosa before it can be seen by the naked eye. Like other cancers, early detection of oral cancer is critical. Studies have shown that early detection of oral cancer with technologies like the Oral ID and VELscopeVx dramatically improves the survivability of the disease. If oral cancer is detected in its later stages, which typically occurs during a conventional oral cancer exam, the chances of survival are dramatically reduced.
The panoramic X-ray is sometimes referred to as a full mouth X-ray. It is a two-dimensional picture of a patients teeth and surrounding bones. This picture is panoramic, meaning that it captures images of more than just a couple of teeth it takes a picture of your both upper and lower jaws from one jaw joint to the other. Panorex X-rayscan detect a wide variety of health issues, before the patient even knows they have a problem. A benefit of the Panorex X-ray is that it puts images of all these parts of the jaw onto one picture, making it easy for the dentist to see everything all at once. It is also easier for patients that have difficulty holding X-ray films in their mouth repeatedly for several minutes. The Panorex X-ray is over in a few seconds!
These are used to display X-rays, and show patient education videos about the treatment you will be receiving or have questions about. Our monitors will also show images from the intra-oral camera, a camera that is used to take images of your mouth and gives us a closer look of any current or potential problems you may have.
The Diagnodent is a pen-like probe that sends a safe, painless laser beam into the tooth and checks its health. A number scale and an alarm will signal when there are signs of hidden decay, which allows us to determine if a cavity is starting to form beneath the apparently healthy tooth surface.
The DEXIS CariVu device is a fast and painless way to thoroughly examine your teeth. This device shines a zero radiation, near-infrared light on your teeth, making the enamel appear transparent, while highlighting the areas that are decayed or cracked as dark areas. This helps us identify areas that need immediate treatment, enabling us to provide care before the problem becomes more serious or painful. We also use the DEXIS CariVu caries detection device to confirm findings we see in your X-rays. We are then able to share the pictures on our flat screens at a large size to help provide you with better insight and understanding of our recommended treatment plan. An image history of your teeth is kept on file, so that we can compare images from previous visits and monitor changes over time.
Patient education is one of the pillars of our practice. We love nothing more than having you walk away fully understanding your specific treatment plan and its importance in your dental and your overall health. Using CAESY Cloud, we offer over 280 patient educational videos, right from the comfort of each dental chair, for you to watch to help you better understand your dental procedures and to help educate you on all matters of dental health.
We love the saying seeing is believing and as part of our patient education mission, we use this tiny camera to show you up close and detailed pictures of all the surfaces of your teeth. This better allows us to show any problem areas on your own teeth and how we can accomplish the treatments necessary to fix them. We then save all the pictures captured in your patient file so you can see the impressive before and after pictures of your own teeth.
Dr. Zuzana Grunberger is the dentist and owner of Livonia Family Dental. She has practiced in Livonia for over 25 years and has patients from all over the Detroit metro area seeking her and her teams dental care. She was recently honored in HOUR Detroit Magazines list of top dentists in Metro Detroit in 2017.
Dr. Grunberger received her dental degree (D.D.S.) from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and began her professional career as a commissioned officer with the United States Navy. Among her various activities there she ran the dental clinic at the U.S. Marine base in Quantico, VA. She also oversaw programs involving humanitarian relief missions, and participated in domestic outreach for disadvantaged children within the armed services. After her military career, she relocated to Michigan and started building her successful practice in Livonia, Michigan.
Dr. Grunberger always pushes herself to be a leader in her field, and keeps her knowledge up-to-date. She continually studies the latest developments in all aspects of dentistry and takes courses at local universities University of Detroit Mercy and the University of Michigan. In addition, she has completed studies at thePankey Institutein Key Biscayne, Florida. The Institute offers continuing education courses for dentists, specialists and technicians from around the world who aspire to provide individualized, comprehensive dentistry services and learn successful behavioral, clinical and financial practices. Dr. Grunberger currently takes courses through Spear Education, another renowned institute that provides continuing education to dentists dedicated to the pursuit of clinical excellence in dentistry. She is an active member of the American Dental Association (ADA), Michigan Dental Association (MDA), Academy of General Dentistry (AGD), Chicago Dental Society, Detroit District Dental Society, Detroit Dental Clinic Club Perio Section, and The American Academy for Oral Systemic Health.
In the community, Dr. Grunberger is actively involved in various charities like Dentistry from the Heart, Mission of Mercy, Michigan Donated Dental Services, Livonia Goodfellows, St. Matthew Lutheran Church and School, Blessings in a Backpack Livonia, and many local sports teams and clubs.
In her free time, she loves to travel and explore new places and cuisines and loves to read anything historical about the new places she visits. Additionally, Dr. Grunberger tries to spend as much time as she can with close family, and loves to spoil her four young grandchildren.