Posts by Bitterroot Dental

Once you graduate, you don’t have to go to class anymore, right? Wrong. Over the past four months Dr. Duke has attended more than 12 days of courses to stay current on the lastest advanced techniques to provide the best care for you. That’s more courses than required in a three year period by the…

Oral cancer is a devastating event in anyone’s life. As such, we are committed to doing everything possible to educate our patients about any contributing risk factors and to provide early detection. Early detection SIGNIFICANTLY increases a favorable outcome. Dr. Duke performs a manual oral cancer screening on every patient at each periodic or comprehensive…

We’re excited to announce the latest upgrade in equipment to our office is the Gendex Orthoralix 8500 DDE panoramic xray machine. Images taken on the 8500 DDE are sent directly to a computer thereby saving the time previously spent developing the xrays. The 8500 DDE also provides enhanced image quality while lowering the dosage of…

Now using the X-Rite Shade-X system, we can scan your natural tooth using an optical scanner to achieve the perfect shade match. This is done comfortably and takes less than one second. Most teeth have multiple colors within several layers making it difficult to get an accurate shade match. The Shade-X system scans multiple areas…

Now you can see what we see! The Icon by Digital Doc is the #1 rated intraoral camera in America. It’s small, slender design allows comfortable, high quality digital images to be taken without any exposure to xrays. It takes only seconds for the image to appear on a computer screen. Now you’ll be able…