On September 24, 2016, Dr. Gradwell was certified in Los Angeles, California on the Chao Pinhole Surgical Technique procedure. Chao pinhole technique is a new type of gum rejuvenation surgery that has been featured in Life After 50 Magazine, Dr. Oz, Good Morning America, Dr. Steve Show, ABC, NBC and The Doctors Show. The goal of this revolutionary technique is to treat gum recession without having to take tissue from the patients’ palate, which is typically done during normal tissue graft procedures. This is a scalpel free, suture free & graft free minimally invasive procedure for correcting gum recession and saving teeth. In most cases, the pinhole technique heals within 24 hours and can achieve great results with no excess cutting or sutures. If you are interested in learning more about how this technique can help you, please contact our office for a New Patient Pinhole consultation.
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What's new here at the office?
25 years
In April, Dr. Gradwell celebrated his 25th year of practice! He actively volunteers his time and talent at the Lehigh Valley Hospital Dental Clinic in Allentown. That was a very proud milestone in his professional life. Dr. Gradwell is very thankful to all those who have supported him along the way including the many referrals that were sent his way. Best wishes for many more years!
Happening List
This year, our office was 2016’s Happening List winner for Best Dental Office! The happening list is a local contest in the Lehigh Valley where people can go to vote for multiple categories. Many people voted and chose Dr. Scott Gradwell as the winner! How refreshing to see so many patients truly love their experience here with us. Thank you to all those who voted! See you next year!
Periodontics & Implants in Lehigh Valley Since 1990. Contact Dr. Gradwell at (610) 770-1050 for your periodontal or dental implant consultation. From our Allentown periodontal office, we serve patients in the Lehigh Valley and the surrounding areas, including Bethlehem, Easton, Coopersburg, and Reading. We look forward to showing you the state-of-the-art options available to meet your dental needs
Emdogain
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Emdogain is used for successful recession coverage. A 2003 abstract by McGuire and Nunn in The Journal of Periodontology, evaluated human recession treated with connective tissue grafts and coronally positioned flap versus Emdogain and coronally positioned flaps. The results showed that in 17 patients, when compared to connective tissue grafts, 95% of the Emdogain patients achieved the same clinical result.
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The nice advantage about this procedure for the patient is that we do not have to harvest tissue from the palate. Emdogain is an enamel matrix protein derivative from porcine tooth buds. The material is user friendly and cost effective, if used to repair several teeth. When considering having root coverage recession corrective surgery, consider the option of Emdogain.
Periodontics & Implants in Lehigh Valley Since 1990. Contact Dr. Gradwell at (610) 770-1050 for your periodontal or dental implant consultation. From our Allentown periodontal office, we serve patients in the Lehigh Valley and the surrounding areas, including Bethlehem, Easton, Coopersburg, and Reading. We look forward to showing you the state-of-the-art options available to meet your dental needs
NEW! VaTech Cone Beam Machine
In our ongoing effort to provide the best quality of care to our patients, we now provide x-rays with our new VaTech Green CT 2-D and 3-D imaging system. This machine is the only one in the Lehigh Valley area with the lowest dosage of radiation in the world. We now have the ability to take panoramic x-rays as well as 3D Cone Beam images. Full mouth and Bitewing x-rays are done in one scan versus multiple x-rays in and out of the mouth saving time and eliminating patient discomfort. Who wouldn’t like instant gratification?
According to pubmed.gov author S.C. White states, “Cone-beam imaging has gained broad acceptance in dentistry in the last five years. Cone-beam machines emit an x-ray beam shaped like a cone rather than a fan as in conventional computed tomography (CT) machines.” The author goes on to say “The beam diameter ranges from 4-30cm….in one pass around the patients’ head capturing from 160-599 basic images. 3-D images of bone surfaces can also be generated”.
We specialize in the placement of dental implants and the treatment of periodontal disease which includes the evaluation of fractured teeth, bone loss, infections and cysts. The Cone Beam image will greatly improve our ability to detect these unfavorable conditions and allow us to better treat our patients. The best aspect of this machine is its’ minimal to no radiation to our patients. We have spent countless hours in training to better equip ourselves with this new machine. At first glance this machine may seem intimidating but we assure you it is very quick and painless! The Green CT has benefited the dental field in diagnosing what a normal x-ray may not capture. We are certain you will love this new innovative method of x-ray imaging and your treatment with us!
Periodontics & Implants in Lehigh Valley Since 1990. Contact Dr. Gradwell at (610) 770-1050 for your periodontal or dental implant consultation. From our Allentown periodontal office, we serve patients in the Lehigh Valley and the surrounding areas, including Bethlehem, Easton, Coopersburg, and Reading. We look forward to showing you the state-of-the-art options available to meet your dental needs.
Honduras Mission Trip
Summer 2013
This past August I had the opportunity to spend a week in La Entrada Honduras with a medical mission team. This trip was a humbling experience in which we had the opportunity to treat 600 patients in five days.
We started our mission in Honduras by setting up the very first medical clinic in a town named Trinidad. The mayor of the town was thankful and proud that he could provide this service to his people. I provided dental care, primarily surgeries, in the clinic at Manos Amigos in the town of La Entrada, while the medical folks on the mission team worked in the Trinidad clinic we had set up on Saturday and Sunday.
My youngest daughter, Lauren, and I set up the pharmacy in the clinic.
We had over 30,000 pills which we bought from a medical supplier in the Netherlands and the medications were shipped to Honduras about a week before our arrival. The two days of setting up allowed the medical team to see an unbelievable number of people, to include two school classrooms of around 120 children. I worked in the dental clinic at Manos Amigos with two other dentists who work full time there. I was able to provide surgical care to almost 90 patients in the five days.
It was a humbling experience and I will forever be grateful for the opportunity to serve these folks in their time of need. One of the lessons I learned was that I will never take for granted clean drinkable water! Hopefully over the next decade more wells could be drilled to make clean and safe water available to so many who do not have access to such.
I want to thank all those who helped us along the journey. Your financial support and prayers were put to great use and I was proud to represent you among these beautiful and humble people.
Periodontics & Implants in Lehigh Valley Since 1990. Contact Dr. Gradwell at (610) 770-1050 for your periodontal or dental implant consultation. From our Allentown periodontal office, we serve patients in the Lehigh Valley and the surrounding areas, including Bethlehem, Easton, Coopersburg, and Reading. We look forward to showing you the state-of-the-art options available to meet your dental needs.
Dentist at the Dentist: Part 3
Well it’s been a few weeks now since the extraction of Dr. Freedman’s beloved tooth and a visit here to see how things are coming along is required. By now, the osteoblasts or bone forming cells have migrated to the surface of his new implant and will soon start to grow into it, making the dental implant part of his body!
Everything checked out just great! One observation that Dr. Freedman made was that it is astounding how quickly the body resorbs the un-needed bone. His tongue starts to feel the difference in thickness in the outside area of the jaw bone where his tooth used to be. All Dr. Freedman has to do now is just wait 3 more months to get started on his new implant supported crown. The time will go by quickly! As always, this process went very smoothly and before Dr. Freedman knows it, his new tooth will be biting into his favorite foods!
Periodontics & Implants in Lehigh Valley Since 1990. Contact Dr. Gradwell at (610) 770-1050 for your periodontal or dental implant consultation. From our Allentown periodontal office, we serve patients in the Lehigh Valley and the surrounding areas, including Bethlehem, Easton, Coopersburg, and Reading. We look forward to showing you the state-of-the-art options available to meet your dental needs.
DENTIST AT THE DENTIST-PART 2
Picking up where I left off, Dr. Freedman came here to get his fractured tooth extracted and the site grafted with bone, in preparation for a future implant. Using only local anesthesia, I easily and atraumatically removed his bad tooth, cleaned out the minor infection, disinfected the site and then discovered there was enough solid bone to place a dental implant in the perfect position.
If you have never had a procedure like this done, the truth is that the hardest part is the sadness over losing your tooth! It had been with Dr. Freedman a long time and they shared countless meals together! There was NO pain during the extraction, dental implant placement or the grafting procedure. Dr. Freedman was taking antibiotics and he only needed a few Motrin for the tiny amount of discomfort that he had experienced afterward. He applied ice regularly for 24 hours and followed all of the post-surgical instructions, which was vital.
Dr. Freedman was able to treat patients the next day and go to a Phillies game with his wife and some friends that evening! So for the time being, he’s missing a tooth, but on the bright side, he was back in his regular routine the very next day!
Stay tuned for Part 3! 😉
Periodontics & Implants in Lehigh Valley Since 1990. Contact Dr. Gradwell at (610) 770-1050 for your periodontal or dental implant consultation. From our Allentown periodontal office, we serve patients in the Lehigh Valley and the surrounding areas, including Bethlehem, Easton, Coopersburg, and Reading. We look forward to showing you the state-of-the-art options available to meet your dental needs.
Dentist at the Dentist- Part 1
If you ever had any doubts, even a dentist can have a dental emergency! Several months ago just after his last check up, Dr. Freedman developed a toothache on his upper left side. Of course, like one would expect it was when he was on a long weekend outing with his wife. Fortunately, he was able to generally diagnose the problem, asked me to call a prescription in for him and so his time off was salvaged! While Dr. Freedman made an appointment to see an endodontist to treat what he had diagnosed as an abscess, Dr. Freedman’s big question was how could he have an abscess…he had no filling or cavities in that part of his mouth. Well the endodontist as well as his partner confirmed the diagnosis as an abscess, but the cause was a fractured tooth!!! A perfectly healthy tooth had been fractured and nothing could be done to save it! That meant one thing, time to see me and get his tooth extracted and have a dental implant placed! So off Dr. Freedman came to see me for treatment. We shall continue the story with my next post!
Periodontics & Implants in Lehigh Valley Since 1990.
Contact Dr. Gradwell at (610) 770-1050 for your periodontal or dental implant consultation. From our Allentown periodontal office, we serve patients in the Lehigh Valley and the surrounding areas, including Bethlehem, Easton, Coopersburg, and Reading. We look forward to showing you the state-of-the-art options available to meet your dental needs.
11th Periodontal – Restorative Symposium
Over the first weekend of June, Dr. Freedman and myself attended the 11th Periodontal – Restorative Symposium.
This international meeting is held once every 3 years and the most advanced techniques, products and procedures are always on the menu. For 2 1/2 days the world’s best dentists learn and mingle with the educational innovators of Dentistry!
It was refreshing for Dr. Freedman and I to discover just how cutting edge was the level of care we provided to our family of patients. As always, we left with a few new pearls of wisdom that we have already incorporated into our protocols.
Periodontics & Implants in Lehigh Valley Since 1990.
Contact Dr. Gradwell at (610) 770-1050 for your periodontal or dental implant consultation. From our Allentown periodontal office, we serve patients in the Lehigh Valley and the surrounding areas, including Bethlehem, Easton, Coopersburg, and Reading. We look forward to showing you the state-of-the-art options available to meet your dental needs.
New Techniques
I spend a large amount of time every year on continuing education. These educational meetings provide me with information that keeps me current in all aspects of dentistry. I traveled to Boston for the Periodontal and Restorative workshops where I received 24 hours of CE on dental implants, gum treatment, gum surgery and esthetic dental restorations such as crowns and veneers. I am investigating the newest and “greenest” 3D imaging machine for purchase and use in my practice. This will take a couple more months to complete, but I will be able to offer the latest, lowest dose 3D imaging in the Lehigh Valley.
Also, I just came back from the American Academy of General Dentistry meeting in Nashville, TN. I took CE courses with my colleagues from Harleysville, where I practice 2 Wednesdays a month. We learned how to incorporate orthodontic care with our patients, how to better choose restorative materials for our patients (white fillings), and how to make the most out of our talents to provide happy, healthy, white smiles for our patients.
At the AGD meeting I purchased a DentalVibe injection comfort system which will allow me the opportunity to give dental injections in an even more comfortable manner. The research has shown that when vibration is simultaneously applied to the injection site, the vibrating sensation travels along the nerve fibers much faster than the pain sensation travels. Therefore, the vibration sensation blocks any possible pain from the injections. The nice part about this technique is that it is organically safe. No medication is necessary to achieve a comfortable result.
Periodontics & Implants in Lehigh Valley Since 1990.
Contact Dr. Gradwell at (610) 770-1050 for your periodontal or dental implant consultation. From our Allentown periodontal office, we serve patients in the Lehigh Valley and the surrounding areas, including Bethlehem, Easton, Coopersburg, and Reading. We look forward to showing you the state-of-the-art options available to meet your dental needs.
