Babies, Babies and More Babies!

Congratulations to Erica and Todd on the birth of their son Brody (center) and to Melissa and Diana on the birth of their twin girls Lauren and Lindsey! Brody was born about 5 weeks before the girls and it looks like they'll be friends for a long time. There must be something in the water at our office because two more of our lovely staff are expecting babies in the near future...

Latest Sirona Digital Panoramic Now at McKee Dental

Work started from the moment our office was closed for the Christmas holiday as workers quickly completed construction to accomodate our upgraded digital panoramic and cephalometric radiography system. After careful consideration and a lot of research, our doctors decided to purchase the new Sirona XG 5 for the benefit of our patients.

With offices in Charlotte, the roots of Sirona’s competence in the field of radiography go all the way back to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen and his pioneering work in the early 1900s. Many innovative products made Siemens Dental the technological leader in the dental sector. And, since the transition to Sirona in 1997, they have consistently expanded on their leadership in the market.

The ORTHOPHOS XG 5 is designed as part of the neXt Generation family of Sirona X-ray products for dentists who would like to use state-of-the-art technologies to meet their most important requirements: Accurate and reliable X-ray images with simple operation. Not only does the programmable robotic movement of the sensor arm capture crystal clear images, it does so with as little radiation exposure as possible. So much less, in fact, that an entire arch of teeth can be seen with the same amount of radiation as one tiny film.

In addition to regular panoramic programs, the XG 5 can take TMJ views, sinus views, constant magnification views for prosthetics and implants, cross sectional views and split arch views for great flexibility. The machine also has pediatric programs which limit the field of radiation for our smaller patients.

McKee Dental is also the first dental office in Charlotte to get the panoramic bitewing program! This software upgrade allows our panoramic to take conventional bitewing x-rays. These views allow us to see cavities in high detail without the use of intraoral sensors. This is great for kids who can't tolerate regular x-rays and is extremely low-dose to boot! This unprecedented development sets a new standard for extraoral x-rays.

The cephalometric component is crystal clear with its own dedicated sensor and can be used for orthodontics as well as a diagnostic tool for implants.

We are proud and excited to make the investment in this latest component in digital diagnostic capability for our patients.