Dental Services - Riyadh

Advanced General Dentistry

Advanced General Dentistry offers comprehensive care including cleanings, exams, fillings, crowns, bridges, implant restorations, dentures, and complex cases. It serves Medical Protocol Department patients, South Soldiers and dependents, and MNGHA employees and dependents. Emergency Dental Clinics are also supported.

Endodontics

Endodontics diagnoses and treats diseases and injuries of dental pulp and periapical tissues.

• Dental pulp pathology
• Pulpectomies and pulpotomies
• Pulp extirpation and obturation
• Apicectomies and retrograde fillings
• Apexification procedures

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is a dental specialty that deals with the diagnosis and surgical treatment of diseases, deformities, defects, and traumatic injuries of the soft and hard tissues of the mouth, jaws, and facial structures, and covers both functional and cosmetic aspects.

The scope of maxillofacial surgery ranges from minor to complex major surgeries on patients of different age groups ranging from newborns to the very elderly. It includes dentoalveolar surgery (surgical treatment of disorders involving teeth and their supporting structures) including dental implants, traumatic injuries of the maxillofacial structures, orthognathic surgery (surgical correction of dentofacial discrepancies), maxillofacial pathology including oral cancer, craniofacial defects including cleft lip and palate, surgical and non-surgical treatment of temporomandibular (jaw) joint disorders, salivary gland surgery, reconstructive surgery, and cosmetic facial surgery.

Its services include inpatients (hospital admissions) as well as outpatient clinics, in addition to operating rooms in both the Day Surgery Unit and main Operating Rooms. The division also provides different levels of on-call services around the clock seven days a week. About 300 patients are seen in the outpatient clinics and approximately 15 patients are operated on under general anesthesia every week.

Orthodontics

Orthodontics is a dentistry specialty which deals with diagnosis, prevention, and correction of mal-positioned teeth and jaws, and misaligned bite patterns. It may also address the modification of facial growth in growing patients.

The specialists in this division provide treatment to about 600 patients per week, having one or more of the following problems:

• Dental malocclusion: crowding, spacing, rotation, proclination, retroclination, Class II malocclusion, Class III malocclusion
• Skeletal malocclusion: maxillary prognathia/retrognathia, mandibular prognathia/retrognathia, facial asymmetry
• Craniofacial anomalies: cleft lip and palate, other craniofacial syndromes
• Growing patients with skeletal problems: phase I treatment of growth modification
• Sleep apnea
• Orofacial pain

Services offered:

• Preventive Orthodontics
• Interceptive Orthodontics
• Corrective Orthodontics:
  • Surgical Orthodontics
  • Camouflage
  • Comprehensive treatment
• Adjunctive Orthodontic treatment

Pediatric Dentistry

Pediatric Dentistry primarily focuses on infants, children, and adolescents. It encompasses most areas of adult dentistry but applies them to pediatric patients, with unique challenges requiring special assessments and behavioral guidance techniques to deliver a positive and relatively pain-free experience.

The division provides comprehensive dental treatment for approximately 300 patients per week at King Abdulaziz Dental Center (KADC), and about 70 cases per month under general anesthesia at King Abdullah Specialized Children Hospital (KASCH). Some cardiac cases requiring dental treatment under general anesthesia and intensive cardiac monitoring are managed at King Abdulaziz Cardiac Center.

Treatment scope includes preventive programs, diagnosis and management of traumatized teeth, oral pathology, oral surgical procedures, interceptive orthodontics, emergency treatments, and comprehensive oral health care.

Treatments may be provided under local anesthesia, nitrous oxide/sedation, or general anesthesia depending on age, medical condition, behavior, and severity. Pediatric Dentistry Division also leads residency programs and provides on-call services for inpatient clearance, trauma, and emergencies 24/7.

Periodontics

Periodontics branch of dentistry that is concerned with prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases that affect the gums and supporting structures of the teeth. The periodontist typically sees severe, complex cases that require a specialist rather than having the patient see a general dentist. Some of the procedures done are:

• Scaling and root planning
• Regenerative procedures to encourage new bone and tissue growth
• Crown lengthening and removal of excess gum tissue
• Dental implants
• Periodontal pocket reduction (osseous surgery)

Prosthodontics

Prosthodontics focuses on dental prosthesis. It involves diagnosis, treatment planning, rehabilitation, and maintenance of oral function, comfort, appearance, and health of patients with missing or deficient teeth or oral/maxillofacial tissues using biocompatible substitutes.

The specialty replaces missing teeth and tissues with crowns, bridges, and dentures, which may be fixed or removable, or supported by implants. Each treatment requires multiple steps and visits depending on case complexity.

Restorative Dentistry

Restorative Dentistry deals with diagnosis and integrated management of diseases of teeth and supporting structures, and rehabilitation of dentition to meet functional and aesthetic needs.

Types of specialists:

• Restorative Dentist: Provides routine and complex restorative care using advanced knowledge and skills.
• Advanced Restorative Dentist: Competent in operative dentistry, endodontics, fixed prosthodontics, and implant rehabilitation.

The division treats about 300 patients per week and provides on-call services and consultations to other specialties.

Medically Compromised Patients Unit

The MCP Unit provides oral health care for medically complex patients with physical, medical, developmental, or cognitive conditions, in both Operating Rooms and Dental Clinics. It diagnoses and manages medically related diseases and conditions affecting the oral and maxillofacial region.

Services include:

• Comprehensive dental procedures (restorations, simple endodontics, simple prosthetics)
• Comprehensive dental treatment in the Operating Room
• Oral mucosal diseases
• Oral lesions
• Oral manifestations of systemic diseases
• Salivary diseases
• Oral chemosensory disorders
• General medicine pertinent to oral diseases
• Orofacial pain disorders

Dental Laboratory

The Dental Laboratory is a state-of-the-art facility equipped with advanced technology to reduce waste and time in dental procedures.

Equipment includes:

• Dental 3D printer
• 3D dental scanners
• CAD-CAM system (zirconia all ceramic and metal cases)