Diagnostic

• Dental Examination

Restorative

• Veneers
• Crowns
  Newer graduates tend to forget to empathize with the pulp in restorative treatment. Don’t over-etch when restoring a tooth and instead, remember to selectively etch a tooth. Don’t desiccate the tooth after etching the tooth. Read and follow instructions of the total etch system. Just because it doesn’t say “Desensitizer†on the bottle doesn’t mean the tooth will become sensitive after a restoration – there are many ways to prevent sensitivity when medicaments are used appropriately. Further, utilize diagnostic techniques like spraying a #2 cotton pellet with Endo – Ice or an electric pulp tester on several teeth in a quadrant and record your results in the record to help formulate an eventual treatment plan. Don’t use a base or liner unless you see pink while preparing a tooth. Use a desensitizer after preparing a tooth for a crown and don’t desiccate it during preparation or impression taking. Make sure your pulpal depth is sufficient for adequate bulk of restorative material – don’t expect 0.5mm of amalgam or composite restoration to be sufficient for occlusal load in the adult patient. It is always tender to bite with such a shallow restoration. Don’t be afraid to try out different layering techniques and different enamel, dentin and opaque shades to mimic tooth translucencies. Practice on typodont teeth or extracted teeth because practice makes perfect. Don’t be afraid of recommending a crown for the tooth when there is less than an equal amount of dentin supporting any remaining enamel of an unsupported cusp. When restoring teeth, don’t be afraid to re-contour adjacent restorations or enamel with enamelo-plasty due to adjacent or opposing teeth drift or mesial tilting. Always show the patient planned treatment by marking a cast in red ink. The cast should indicate intended areas of re-contouring and discuss the benefit of such treatment, obtain their consent before proceeding. After re-contouring a tooth or restoration, polish and place desensitizer as needed. Make sure all restorations have adjacent marginal ridges at the same height to prevent occlusal interferences and to obtain proper adjacent inter- proximal contacts.
• Bridges
• Restorative Dentistry
  Restorative dentistry is the study, diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the teeth and their supporting structures in addition to the rehabilitation of the dentition to specific functional and aesthetic requirements of the individual patient.

Endodontics

• Root Canal Treatment
  As a second generation Chinese American & general dentist, I feel fortunate and honored to be in private practice for the last seventeen years. I’ve been trained by several notable famous clinicians in various fields of dentistry, among whom are Dr. Carl Misch, Dr. Norman Cranin & Dr. Brian Lesage. But my first mentor is my dad, Dr. Stanley Lee, fellow and of the AES. According to mom, Dad spent hours of frustration on endodontic procedures shortly after graduating dental school in the late 1970s. But his motivation led him to take local continued education seminars on endodontics, which ultimately led him to the AES. The combination of his endodontic diagnostic training and AES techniques gave him and his patients the confidence and assurance that pulpal pain relief was only an hour away. After he incorporated AES methods and techniques in the 1980’s, my mom overheard him reassure a patient’s spouse, “Walk next door to the Carl’s Jr. or Jack in the Box, I’ll be finished with the root canal on your wife by the time you finish your burger.â€

Prosthodontics

• Dentures
  With over twenty years of implant dentistry experience, Dr. Winnie Lee can help you with the surgical placement and restoration of missing teeth. The below photos show an actual patient of Dr. Winnie Lee, which involved replacing a full lower arch. A denture can be worn as the implants take a few months to osseointegrate or "take" into the jawbone after surgical placement.

Implants

• Dental Implants
  A dental implant is an artificial tooth root replacement and is used in prosthetic dentistry to support restorations that resemble a tooth or group of teeth.

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

• Oral Surgery
• Maxillofacial Surgery
  Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is surgery to correct a wide spectrum of diseases, injuries and defects in the head, neck, face, jaws and the hard and soft tissues of the oral and maxillofacial region.

Orthodontics

• Orthodontics

General

• Teeth Whitening
  Teeth whitening is the process of using bleach or other materials to make teeth look whiter. The materials remove stains or other discoloration from the tooth surface.
• Cosmetic Dentistry
  Cosmetic, or aesthetic, dentistry focuses on improving overall appearance and facial self-image by addressing issues dealing with alignment, shape, and color of teeth. Cosmetic Dentistry can drastically improve the appearance of stained, misshapen, or chipped teeth, in addition to much more.
• General Dentistry
  General Dentistry is the ‘diagnosis, evaluation, prevention or treatment of various diseases or the disorders and circumstances of the ‘oral cavity’.