COVID-19 Dental Appointment Protocols

Dental offices have been leaders in disinfection protocol since the “universal precautions” were developed in the 1980s. While we cannot eliminate all risk of COVID-19 transmission, we have implemented a number of additional precautionary measures, outlined below, to significantly reduce risk, specifically with regard to the aerosol-based nature of COVID-19. My team and I take this part of our work very seriously, for your sake and ours. I am confident in these choices, which meet and exceed all recommendations from the CDC, State and County Public Health Departments, and the California Dental Association. Please do your part to help minimize risk for yourself, my team, and your community of fellow patients.

Please do not enter the office unprompted. When you arrive at the parking lot in advance of your appointment, please wait in your car and call our office, and we will invite you to the waiting room when safe. Please limit accompanying family members to one, only if needed. Pre-visit COVID-19 screening questions can be completed ahead of time via phone or email. Please enter the office wearing a mask, and if you forget one, we can meet you outside and provide one. Temperature and pulse oximetry readings will be taken in the waiting room prior to entering the clinical area. After your appointment, you will exit through the back hallway.

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Minimally Invasive Dentistry

At Legacy Dental Care we use minimally invasive dentistry whenever possible. Minimally invasive dentistry is the practice of providing treatment that maintains and improves the oral health of a patient while avoiding unnecessarily complicated procedures, and minimizing removal of the patient’s natural, healthy tooth structure.

Most patients correctly feel that the best solution is often the simplest, and Dr. Diamond agrees. For example, for small cavities in the grooves of teeth, they can often use air abrasion to remove only the decayed material, which is more conservative than a traditional bur and handpiece (dental “drill”). In many cases where decay is larger or parts of teeth are fractured, an onlay or “partial crown” can restore the tooth just as predictably as a full crown, but save the remaining healthy tooth structure at the base of the tooth, lowering risk to the nerve and gums. This has become possible due to huge improvements is ceramic materials and bonding agents (glues) over the past several years.

Call (650) 948-0786 for more details and schedule your consultation today.