Door Creek Dental has enhanced its standard of care by integrating ViziLite technology into its oral cancer screening protocol. ViziLite is a 2-3 minute painless, non-invasive early detection exam. ViziLite is an adjunct to the conventional head and neck exam utilizing chemiluminescent technology that allows dental professionals to visualize and identify oral abnormalities that may not be evident to the unaided eye.

Our practice is committed to joining the fight against oral cancer and recognizes that the key to reducing the mortality rate associated with oral cancer is through early detection. The ViziLite technology, in conjunction with the standard oral cancer examination, has been proven clinically superior to the standard oral cancer examination alone in clinical trials evaluating 13,000 patients and four FDA studies.

For more information please feel free to contact us.

Our church, Door Creek Church, has a partnership with Los Olivos church in Sumpango, Guatemala. The desired long-term outcomes of this relationship are to further develop church and community relationships in the city and surrounding villages and to create a long-term strategy to assist Los Olivos in the development of leaders that will plant, grow and lead churches in the surrounding area.

In October 2007 after much planning and preparation a small group of us were able to set up a primitive dental clinic on the third floor of the church. Though it amazingly served its purpose, this little makeshift clinic lacked almost every resemblance to Door Creek Dental you can imagine except for its great patients! Though the days were long, and filled with some very difficult appointments there was never a minute that we questioned Gods placing us there for the task. We learned just how lucky we are to live in a place of preventative dentistry.

Due to lack of eductaion and exams nearly every patient, even kids less than 5 years old were suffering from dental or gum infections that affected their daily life. But our newfound patients and friends in Sumpango also reminded us of the joy and happiness we can have even when we have so very little. Faith, family and relationships seem to run so much deeper there. There was a great satisfaction found in knowing each culture had something to learn from each other.

Sincerely, Dr. Scott Kirkpatrick DMD and Krysta Wetzel RDH.

Here at Door Creek Dental we are very conscious about our environment.

When a patient needs a filling because of decay there are two ways to fill the tooth. The patient can choose to have a composite filling or an amalgam filling. The composite filling is a mixture of glass or quartz filler in a resin medium that produces a tooth-colored filling. An amalgam filling is a stable alloy made by combining mercury, silver, tin, copper and possibly other metallic elements. Although dental amalgam continues to be a safe material and used often, some concern has been raised because of its mercury content. However, the mercury in amalgam combines with other metals to render it stable and safe for use in filling teeth. Our government is concerned that any loose particles disposed of improperly by dental offices can end up our lakes. Door Creek Dental is continuing to help our environment by using an amalgam separator incorporated in our suction system so when amalgam is removed from the tooth it is contained in a separate container. This container is then disposed of using the regulated guidelines.

Door Creek Dental is also an office that recycles. We try to recycle everything that can be recycled. All of our light fixtures are fluorescent so we are conserving as much energy as possible. We have taken this an extra step and have become a mostly paperless office. We record all of our findings on our dental software thus eliminating excess paper use.

We, along with all of you, value our planet and are trying to do our part to conserve it as much as we can for future generations to come.

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