Dental Centre (inside St. Joseph's Family Medical and Dental Centre) - Services

Comprehensive dental services are an essential component of the medical care that patients of St. Joseph’s Parkwood Institute and Southwest Centre receive. Dental clinics focus on disease prevention, management of oral health, rehabilitation, and restoration of oral function. Good dental health can improve esthetics, speech, nutrition, comfort, and over-all health.

Services offered include:

  • Examinations
  • Oral hygiene instruction
  • Scaling (Cleaning)
  • Prophylaxis
  • Radiographs (X-Rays)
  • Dentures and partials
  • Extractions
  • Tooth coloured fillings
  • Bonding
  • Crowns and bridges
  • Root canal treatments
  • Oral surgical procedures
  • Referrals to specialists as needed

More complex dental procedures are performed in the Operating Room. For example: complicated dental extractions and reconstructive jaw surgery.