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Fund My Smile Contest is an ongoing game at Zak Dental offices where patients have a chance to win $500 toward their dental treatment.  Treatment Plans in progress are eligible! You can be a Winner! Hurry up!

Dr. Zak  speaks about the bad dental habits you can change. These bad habits can hurt your mouth. He explains how to get rid of these habits to protect your month and oral health.

Laser Treatment in Dentistry to: expose partially erupted wisdom teeth, manage gum tissue during impression for crowns, remove overgrown tissue caused by certain medication, perform biopsy procedures, reduce and heal inflamed gum tissue, speed up tooth whitening procedures, replace the need to use drill or anesthesia in some procedures, reduce bacteria in diseased gum tissue, tooth cavities and root canals, control bleeding during surgery.

Porcelain Veneers and Your Smile. Porcelain veneers are a great solution for improving and beautifying your smile.

Fixed and Removable Implant Restorations.
The patient that desires implants to replace all of their teeth in either upper, lower or both jaws has a variety of options that need to be discussed during the Examination and Consultation Process. Every patient is unique and no one treatment plan fits the needs and desires of every patient.

Because Porcelain Materials – a new generation off very strong porcelain materials. Therefore they can be used for fabricating crowns, veneers and inlays helped to advance dentistry in many ways.

Porcelain Veneers can be used to mask tooth discoloration, repair teeth that are worn down, chipped, broken, and Veneers can make dark teeth resistant to whitening bright and white again.

Stem Cells in Dentistry. Stem cells are a type of universal cell that can morph into other types of tissue. One of the easiest sources of stem cells turn out to be in the pulp tissue of teeth. Exfoliated deciduous teeth are the most natural and noninvasive sources to harvest stem cells.

How I Chose to Become a Dentist. Dr. Howard Kopel with Zak Dental shares his story how he chose to become a dentist.

Antibiotics and their indication in dentistry. When to use antibiotics? How much to use? What type of antibiotic to use?  According to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention more than 2 million people in the US are hospitalized and more than 23,000 die each year from superinfections caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria.