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The Future is Here: AI-Powered Dentistry at Water Tower Dental Care
At Water Tower Dental Care, we're committed to providing our patients with the most advanced and comfortable dental experience possible. That's why we're excited to be at the forefront of a revolution in dentistry: artificial intelligence (AI).

You might be surprised to learn that AI is already playing a key role in your dental care. From the moment you step into our office, AI is working behind the scenes to enhance accuracy, efficiency, and your overall experience.

How We Use AI to Enhance Your Care:

Precision Diagnostics with PearlAI: Our cutting-edge radiography system utilizes PearlAI to analyze your X-rays with incredible accuracy. This helps us detect even the smallest signs of dental issues like cavities, gum disease, and infections, often before they become visible to the naked eye. Early detection means less invasive treatments and better long-term oral health.
Same-Day Restorations with Cerec: Say goodbye to messy impressions and multiple appointments! Our Cerec system uses AI-powered 3D imaging and milling to create beautiful, custom restorations like crowns, inlays, and onlays in a single visit. This means less time in the chair and faster results.
Benefits of AI-Powered Dentistry:

Increased Accuracy: AI algorithms can analyze dental images and data with greater precision than the human eye, leading to more accurate diagnoses and treatment plans.
Faster Treatment: AI-powered tools like Cerec streamline procedures, reducing the time you spend in the dental chair.
Early Detection: AI helps identify potential problems early on, allowing for less invasive and more effective treatment.
Personalized Care: AI can analyze your unique dental data to create customized treatment plans tailored to your specific needs.
Improved Comfort: By increasing efficiency and accuracy, AI contributes to a more comfortable and less stressful dental experience.
The Future of AI in Dentistry:

This is just the beginning! The future of AI in dentistry holds even more exciting possibilities, including:

Predictive Analytics: AI can analyze your dental history and identify potential future issues, allowing us to take proactive steps to prevent them.
Virtual Assistants: AI-powered chatbots can answer your questions, schedule appointments, and provide personalized dental advice.
Robotic Dentistry: While still in its early stages, AI-assisted robotic systems may one day perform complex procedures with even greater precision.
At Water Tower Dental Care, we're committed to staying at the forefront of these advancements to provide you with the best possible care. Experience the difference AI can make in your oral health – schedule your appointment today!

Cracked teeth can be difficult to diagnose. Many of our teeth have hair-line fractures and can be fine for years, but one hard bite, and that can change instantly. This patient was complaining of pain on biting pressure when we diagnosed him with Cracked Tooth Syndrome. The tooth was hypersensitive to hot/cold, and any biting pressure. We had an Endodontist evaluate tooth #15, but they determined no root canal was necessary at this point. We placed a full coverage, same-day ceramic crown over the tooth, and his pain was resolved. Left untreated, the tooth would have needed a root canal, or worst-case   scenario, an extraction if the tooth would have split in half. At Water Tower Dental Care in Chicago, we have the technology to take magnified intra-oral pictures, 3D CT radiographs, trans-illumination, and other diagnostic tools to help find and treat these conditions before they become a bigger problem. If you feel like you may have a cracked tooth, or you have teeth that are sensitive to pressure, give us a call…we can help. 

External and internal root resorption is a pathological process, which tends to occur following a range of mechanical or chemical stimuli. For example infection, pressure, trauma, or orthodontic tooth movement. It is predominantly detected by radiography, but in some cases root resorption may be identified by clinical symptoms such as pain, swelling, and mobility of the tooth. Treatment alternatives are case‐dependent and aim to address the cause of the resorption and aid the regeneration of the resorptive lesion. Sometimes root canal therapy and alleviate the condition, but many times, extraction and periodic evaluation are needed. There is still many unanswered questions about why root resorption occurs, but many doctors, specialist, and researchers agree it is an auto-immune condition. 

At Water Tower Dental Care in Chicago, we use either 2D or 3D imaging to help identify and track these lesions. If you have concerns about root resorption (external, internal, to blunted) root, please give us a call for a consultation. Here is a short video of a patient that had symptomatic root resorption and elected to have the tooth extracted, along with the contralateral tooth due to mobility. Our Periodontist removed the two lateral incisors, placed Nobel Biocare Dental Implants and we restored the teeth with e.Max Crowns cemented on Zirconia Abutments. The lab work was completed by Josh Walker @UtahValleyDentalLab, and the dentistry by Dr. Daniel Aneszko @WaterTowerDentalCare.

Have you ever had a sinking feeling when you bite into something and hear an unsettling crunch? You know you’ve broken a tooth, and worry about just how long it will take to get it fixed. You’ve heard that it can take two dental appointments and several weeks to get a crown, while the dentist waits for a dental lab to make your new tooth. But who wants to wait that long?

That’s why our Chicago office invested time and money into the equipment and training necessary to offer CEREC single-visit crowns to our patients. CEramic REConstruction means that our dental practice can produce metal-free dental restorations to match your smile in just one visit.

CEREC uses CAD/CAM technology, an advanced computer program that acts as a dental restoration tool, so you don’t have to worry about dealing with the mess and discomfort of traditional crown placement. No more choking on dental trays while we make an impression of your teeth. When you come to us with a broken or damaged tooth, we perform a thorough examination and then create a 3D optical impression of your mouth. After that, we use CEREC technology to design and mill a precision ceramic restoration right in our office.

Feel Better Faster With CEREC Restorations

As a patient, you experience many benefits from this one-visit approach to dental restorations. CEREC allows Drs. Daniel Aneszko and Rana Stino to preserve more of your original tooth structure, which means less drilling for you. No temporary crowns are required, because we can take you from diagnosis to restoration in one office visit.

Patients say they love the results, too. Natural tooth-colored porcelain materials are used to create your restoration so it matches your natural coloring as closely as possible.

There is no mess, less discomfort, and no long wait with CEREC, and you get great results, too. Technology is changing the way we provide dental services. If you experience a broken tooth, or are thinking of replacing a cracked or damaged tooth, contact our Chicago office today and ask whether a CEREC single-crown visit is right for you.