Poway Braces Loves Your New Smile

All of us at Poway Braces say - Congratulations Cindy! We really enjoyed having both you and your wonderful daughter in our practice. Did your husband really say you look like a hot new wife??

Dr. Thomas wishes you and your family a great year; we will miss your fun laugh, your warm wishes, and seeing you on a regular basis.

When people ask us whether or not the Damon System can really widen a smile without surgery - all we have to do is think of the fantastic change in your smile & width of your teeth - and how much it fills out the corners of your mouth and smile - to know without a shadow of a doubt that it really does!

Poway Braces Patient Appreciation Pizza Night

Are you signed up for Pizza night March 25? Powaybraces has rented out Round Table Pizza for the evening!! You must have tickets to get in - they are available at our front desk. Hope to see you there!

Results with the Damon System

Dr. Thomas takes pride with providing quality excellent results for both adults and children. This case demonstrates narrow arch forms, severe crowding, and protrusion of the upper teeth out in front of the lower. Orthodontic treatment included passive self ligation Damon Braces combined with a bite fixing appliance called a herbst appliance.

Correction of upper dental protrusion is achieved with many different types of methods - most commonly with Headgear. Dr. Thomas' first 10 years practicing as an Orthodontist were spent encouraging patients to wear a Headgear. What he found was that few children were able to wear their Headgear enough to correct bite problems. This lead to a search for an appliance both comfortable and able to be worn 24 hours a day - able to provide the maximum correction possible.

The herbst appliance has published evidence demonstrating its effectiveness. This evidence was published and presented to the American Association of Orthodontists annual meeting a few years ago.

Exciting recent improvements to the Herbst appliance now provide the ultimate in bite correction with incredible comfort. AdvanSync makes it possible to combine two separate treatment phases into a single phase. It eliminates patient compliance, has a fantastic range of opening and side to side movement, and allows the simultaneous treatment of the bite as the same time jaw discrepancies are also corrected. Take the time to watch the video about AdvanSync and read published evidence on its effectiveness - why would one ever want their child to have to wear Headgear.

Surgical Sterilization with Cassettes

Our office uses an extremely high level of sterilization to prevent the transmission of infectious diseases. Dr. Thomas’ sterilization techniques are used by most high quality orthodontists throughout the United States.

Sterilization is critical in any Orthodontic office & is something all of us at powaybraces take very seriously. ALL of our instruments are first placed in customized cassettes – designed for use in orthodontics, and then wrapped in surgical grade material. They are then heat sterilized in an medical grade autoclave (Midmark).

It’s California law that all dental and orthodontic instruments are fully wrapped, sealed, and sterilized in an autoclave. Instruments are not allowed to be openly sterilized and then placed in bags after they are removed from the machine.

Our sealed wrapped cassettes are then brought to the orthodontic chair for treatment and only opened when ready for patient use.

We take pride in all aspects of our practice & you are welcome to see how we sterilize our instruments for all of our orthodontic patients.

Alice in Wonderland Production & Poway braces

Congratulations to our Patient David Bru – he is starring in the upcoming Theater Production of Alice in Wonderland at the American Spirit Theater in Escondido!!

Dates for the Shows are: February 26,27th, March 6th @ 7:00pm and March 6,7th @ 2:00pm.

Visit www.cyt.org or call 619 588-0206 for more information

All of us at Powaybraces are proud of David and hope he has a great time!

Advanced Orthodontic Education!

We are proud of the fact that our office (powaybraces) always strives to incorporate the latest advances in Orthodontic care. Recently, Dr Thomas and his staff attended the 9th annual Damon Forum held in Phoenix Arizona. It was a 3 day meeting where the doctors and staff attended courses and lectures from 8am – 5pm every day.
Topics included advanced treatment techniques, New material on how to correct difficult bites in 18 months with far more comfort for our patients, and the use of temporary ancor screws to help many people avoid jaw surgery to correct their bites!
Previous years Dr. Thomas was one of the keynote speakers at the Damon Forum teaching how to best use custom braces for all patients.
Our office strives to give our patients the best possible orthodontic treatment with great customer service – exactly what we would want for our children as well.

Powaybraces Pizza Night

Powaybraces & Dr Thomas have rented out Round Table Pizza – March 25th, 5-8pm for all of our fantastic patients and families.

We are hosting a pizza night as a token of our appreciation and thanks for your choosing our Orthodontic practice to give you your awesome smile.

Stay posted on our powaybraces Facebook page and also ask about it when you come in during the next month to find out all of the details for this event. Come in, have your braces fine tuned, and get ready for Pizza, games, prizes and FUN!