Team Members
This team member has the longest tenure at Trails Dental Group.
Who is Megan?
This is the hard, outermost layer of the tooth and the hardest substance in the human body.
What is enamel?
A common outpatient procedure to remove the four permanent adult teeth at the back corners of the mouth.
What is wisdom teeth surgery?
This may be prescribed to someone with generalized pocket measurements of 4mm, moderate calculus, with no bone loss.
This team member wanted to be a police officer when they grew up.
Who is Fariba
These pointed teeth are designed for tearing food
What are canines?
An emergency dental procedure that removes infected or inflamed nerve and soft tissue from the inside of a tooth
What is a pulpal debridement?
This team member was born on September 19th.
Who is Dr. Cicone
These are projections on the chewing surface of posterior teeth help grind food.
What are cusps?
A periodontal procedure that folds back the gum tissue, cleans out deep bacterial plaque and hardened tartar from tooth roots, and reshapes the damaged jawbone to eliminate pockets where bacteria hide.
What is osseous surgery?
This team members grandfather was the Chief of a Native American tribe.
Who is Dr. Dean?
This soft tissue surrounds the necks of the teeth and covers the alveolar bone.
What are the gingiva (gums)?
A routine dental surgical procedure that reshapes gum tissue and sometimes supporting bone to expose more of the natural tooth structure.
What is crown lengthening?
This team members biggest pet peeve is someone continuing to explain something even after they have communicated that they fully understand.
Who is Syrai?
These are the ridges that form the mesial and distal borders of the lingual surface of an anterior tooth.
What are marginal ridges?
In this procedure, a dentist removes a small amount of enamel from between teeth to create space, often as part of orthodontic treatment.
What is interproximal reduction?