Your Pathway to Essential and Meaningful Treatment

Dr. Vence's practice is open to new patients. If you are interested in the benefits of a beautiful smile, we invite you to discover the possibilities with an accurate diagnosis and treatment plan.

“Quality is the wise choice of many alternatives.”

For a complimentary consultation, call 847-426-1522.

The following describes what you can expect when you call:

Telephone Screening
Our treatment plan grows out of your desire and need to rehabilitate your mouth. We will first determine if our practice could be helpful to you.

Initial Consultation
We will explore how we can work together to achieve your goals. We will create a context for your dentistry so we can plan essential and meaningful treatment. We will determine the difficulty of your case and classify your situation as Patient Type I, II, III, or IV, in order to assign the appropriate diagnostic services.

Diagnostic Services
We will perform a clinical evaluation, which consists of a new patient examination, radiographs, and diagnostic photographs. We may also set up appointments to obtain diagnostic casts, jaw records, and mount the diagnostic casts to perform a functional analysis. A functional analysis helps us evaluate how your teeth come together when you bite.

Treatment Planning Session
Together with you, we will determine where you are with your current oral health through a co-discovery process and review the diagnostic findings. We assess four areas of oral health: esthetics, function, structural integrity of the teeth, and the biologic health of the gums and pulps of your teeth. We will discuss what we are seeing in these four areas, what we consider ideal, and what we think will likely happen if you don't act. Most importantly, we will determine what you would like to do for yourself to become healthier.

Obtaining a Future of Choice
Together we will discover an essential and meaningful treatment to resolve your diagnostic findings. We will help connect the emerging meaning derived from your consultation to the techniques necessary to attain your preferred future. We will also help you understand what your choice means in terms of time, money, energy, and outcome.

Action Plan
We will explicitly state the diagnostic findings and your preferred future in terms of our shared purpose (meaning + technique). We will plan the treatment in phases, schedule appointments and discuss financial arrangements.

Active Treatment
We feel it is important for us to be relaxed, focused, and not busy when we treat you. So we will reserve ample time in the schedule for treatment. It is important for you to only reserve time in your schedule if you are sure of your availability. We do not overbook to protect ourselves from no-shows. Since we see a few patients for longer periods of time, it is important to us that we do not have last-minute cancellations.

Preferred Outcome
Our goal is to provide you with a stable, healthy, esthetic mouth.

Maintenance
To protect your restorations, we will recommend an occlusal splint or night guard as well as a continuing care program.

Referrals
We appreciate referrals of people you feel would benefit from our services.