Dr. Richard Leong and his excellent staff are committed to superior and personalized service to handle all of your dental needs. Dr. Leong emphasizes comprehensive care in his practice. Therefore he can perform all of the dental specialties that any one patient would require. You as a patient will rarely have to be referred to other dentists to have all of your necessary treatment done. His watchwords are gentle and pain free care. We as a staff are committed to performing dental procedures in a comprehensive, safe, comfortable and friendly environment.
Many of Dr. Leongs patients come to him because they need this comprehensive care which includes reconstruction of their mouths with have been ravaged with time and dental disease for many years. He can restore the esthetics, function and bite of patients who have been missing their teeth with all the new advances in dentistry. Then after this comprehensive treatment has been accomplished, we as a staff are committed to helping our patients maintain their dental health for the rest of their lives by proper hygiene, nutrition and routine preventive follow-up care. Dr. Leong not only practices dentistry, he has been teaching dentistry for many years. He is co-chairman of the Implantology division of the Atlantic Coast Dental Research Clinic in West Palm Beach Florida. He has been teaching dental colleagues how to place and restore dental implants ever since 1982.
At the initial examination for a patient, Dr. Leong and his staff, take an extended period of time to gather very important information about your chief concerns, your past medical and dental history and present medical and dental status. During this initial examination a comprehensive visual examination of the oral hard and soft tissues will also include an oral cancer examination of not only the mouth but the glands, lymph nodes and thyroid found in the neck region. To insure that he has not missed any vital visual information, Dr. Leong will take intra oral diagnostic photographs of the teeth and surrounding soft tissue. The photographs will also be taken of the face to understand facial bone formation and skin and muscle formation which help to determine the function of speech and chewing as well as esthetic appearance of the face. A full set of radiographs of the teeth will be taken. Many times a panoramic radiograph of both jaws will be taken also to determine formation of the skull in relation to the jaws and to determine bone morphology. Panoramic radiographs are also taken to rule out any pathology not visualized in normal dental xrays.
During our initial interview we will also discuss the national privacy act so that you can be assured that your visits at our office will be privileged information and can not be seen by anyone else except those you choose. Our sterilization techniques will be discussed if you so desire. Another important aspect of this initial visit is to discuss any insurance coverage and how that coverage relates to your overall fee. Funding through dental credit can be discussed if a person needs such help.
Dr. Leong graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and earned his dental degree from the University of Tennessee School of Dentistry in Memphis in 1970. He has been performing dental implant surgeries since 1975. He is one of the few dentists in the area who places special emphasis on treatment of dental implants and temporomandibular joint dysfunctions. He is an active member of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry, and a Master in the American Academy of Implant Prosthodontics. Dr. Leong also teaches dental implantology at the Atlantic Coast Research Center, West Palm Beach, Florida. He lectures nationally and internationally on the subjects of dental implants, temporomandibular dysfunction treatments, neuromuslar occlusion, practice management, marking for the dental practice, and the use of video in the dental practice.
