At Friendly Dental of Worcester, we create plans for healthy smiles. We offer excellent customer
service and care, along with the most recent dental technologies to make your visit convenient,
painless, and positive. Friendly Dental of Worcester welcomes new patients of all ages. Book today!
Dr. Bashar Zyoud
GENERAL DENTIST - D.M.D
Worcester Dentist Dr. Bashar Zyoud is a graduate of Boston University School of Dental Medicine in 2001. He is committed to providing his Worcester Dental patients with the best care possible and offers a variety of restorative and preventative dental services.
He enjoys all aspects of General Dentistry but his passion is Cosmetic Dentistry. Creating smiles that give his patients much deserved self-confidence and joy is why Dr. Zyoud loves his dental profession. He is the leader of the Worcester Friendly Dental team and is greatly admired and respected by his entire team. He is the reason that the Worcester Friendly Dental team is truly unique!
Dr. Zyoud is an owner of 4 dental practices (2 in Worcester, Uxbridge and Taunton) and utilizing 3D E4D technology which allows making same day tooth colored crowns and restorations. Dr Zyoud is also using oral conscious sedation for anxious patients.
Dr Zyoud is an active member in many organizations including the American Dental Association, Massachusetts Dental Society, and DOCS which is an educational certification for oral conscious sedation. Dr. Bashar Zyoud lives in Framingham with his wife.
Dr. Won Young Kye
GENERAL DENTIST - D.M.D.
Dr. Kye is from Canada and earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Human Biology and Physiology from University of Toronto in 2012. Dr. Kye then moved to New England where she received her Doctor of Dental Medicine degree from Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine in 2016. Throughout college and dental school, she was actively involved in various volunteering activities including dental awareness programs and providing free dental check-ups at community health centers.
Providing top quality care and a comfortable dental experience to all of her patients is one of Dr. Kye’s top priorities. With her highly trained skills in advanced restorative dentistry and compassionate personality, Dr. Kye ensures that each and every one of her patients feels relaxed and comfortable in the dental chair and gets the utmost care and a beautiful smile in the end. Dr. Kye also regularly attends continuing education courses to keep up to date with the latest technology.
Dr. Kye is a member of American Dental Association, and is fluent in English and Korean. When not in the office, she enjoys cooking and playing the piano and guitar.
Dr. Kunal Dani, DMD
GENERAL DENTIST
Dr. Kunal Dani graduated from Government Dental College and Hospital, Mumbai, India in 2011 as a Bachelor of Dental Surgery. He earned his Doctor of Dental Medicine from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Boston in 2016 and has been practicing as a General Dentist for the last 2 years.
While at Tufts, Dr. Dani spent enormous hours in the research and clinical practice in the field of cosmetic dentistry. He has won multiple awards at the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry for his research work. He regularly attends various continuing education courses in the field of dentistry to keep himself abreast with the latest technologies.
Dr. Dani enjoys working with patients in a comfortable manner to enhance their smile. He is very compassionate towards his clinical work and strives to provide the best dental care to his patients.
Apart from clinical dentistry, he enjoys travelling, nature photography and multi-cultural cuisines. He currently resides in Westborough, MA with his wife.
He is looking forward to meeting and providing you with top-notch quality dental treatment!
Snoring comes from air entering the nose, mouth or throat at an irregular pace and vibrating the soft tissue palates, the hard tissue palates or both. It affects millions of people, men women and boys and girls, and is both cosmetically unpleasant and can cause health problems like sleep interruption and strain on the heart.
A very loud snore may be a sign of apnea, which is a condition where air passages are blocked.
Snoring is usually caused by:
Alcohol
Allergies
Bulky Throat Tissue
Fatigue
Hypothyroidism
Long Soft Palate
Narrow
Obesity
Obstructed Nasal Airways
Poor Muscle Tone in Throat and Tongue
Smoking
Oral appliance therapy is the most common treatment for severe snoring problems, where an alliance physically holds the airways open during sleep. Other treatment options include surgery, changes in sleeping patterns and lifestyle improvements.
Sedation Dentistry
Sedation dentistry is the use of sedation to make a patient comfortable during a dental treatment. It is mostly used during extensive procedures such as fillings, crowns, bridges, root canals, extractions, cosmetic procedures and periodontal treatments. It can also be used for patients with anxiety of dental procedures or who have trouble sitting still.
Sedation Dentistry is endorsed by the American Dental Association and is a hallmark of the technological transformations in the dental world that have given patients more comfort and ease.
Before using a sedative or anesthetic, it is important to tell your dentist about any medications or medical treatments you are receiving. Before administering any sedative or anesthetic, your dentist will talk to you about the process of sedation and pre- and post-sedation instructions.
Dental Bonding and Tooth-Colored Fillings
Bonding is a popular method to fill in or cover up defects in teeth with a white composite resin. An adhesive gel is placed on the tooth, and the resin is molded and sculpted over it, then hardened with UV light and polished.
Bonding can be used to fill teeth after the removal of cavities, or to cover stains, cracks, discolorations, chips, or gaps in teeth. It is a technological improvement over highly-visible silver amalgam fillings, and applications usually lasts more than 10 years.
Dental Bridge
Dental bridges are a way to replace missing teeth by creating a segment that anchors to two existing teeth to “bridge” the gap between them.
Made from porcelain, gold, alloys, or metal, bridges require the two teeth on either side of the missing tooth to be filed down into “abutments” that will hold the bridge in place, much like a pair of crowns with a third tooth joining them from the middle.
The bridge itself will be created in a specialized lab while a temporary bridge is put in its place. Once the final bridge is put in place, you will need to eat soft foods for a few days while the bridge settles, but after that it will function and feel normal.
If you are missing a tooth, please strongly consider having it replaced. Not only are there aesthetic disadvantage from the missing tooth, but that gap could also harm your mouth and jaw and make it difficult to eat or speak properly.
Dental Crown
Sometimes teeth begin to weaken, crack, or visibly decay, but remain well-anchored and firmly in place. Bonding or filling may not be sufficient, and in these cases, a crown is often recommended.
With a crown, the original tooth will be filed down to the enamel, left in place, and capped with a crown of porcelain, gold, or porcelain fused with metal. The color is matched to the other teeth, and the crown will appear to be a regular tooth in your smile.
Periodontal Disease Treatment
Besides our prolific attention to your teeth and keeping them clean and polished, we also take time to help our patients develop better oral hygiene habits at home. If we detect telltale signs of hygienic shortcomings we will recommend changes to your routine to improve your oral health. We can also suggest preventative measures like dental sealants or nightguards if you’re at risk of TMJ or bruxism.
Some gum diseases like gingivitis may need a root scaling or planing procedure to prevent long-term damage like bone loss or tooth loss.
Oral Cancer Screenings
During a dental exam, your doctor will check your neck and oral tissues for lumps, colored patches, and sore spots to help detect oral cancer while it is easiest to treat. People who smoke and drink regularly are at the highest risk of developing oral cancel.
Scaling and Root Planing
Scaling and root planing is a non-surgical procedure where plaque and tartar are removed from below the gum line. Special slim tools clean the root surfaces of plaque and tartar and smooth down the surface. This prevents bacteria from getting a foothold in the gums.
Teeth Whitening
Modern life offers a number of ways to stain our teeth, including coffee, wine, food and smoking. This can even happen to people who brush regularly. Teeth whitening restores the natural color to the teeth and can even be made whiter than normal.
We accomplish this by creating impressions of your teeth and using them to make a set of whitening trays. You can wear these trays for less than an hour a day for a few days and receive a dramatic increase in whiteness to your smile.
Please contact us to see if whitening is right for you.
Dental Veneers
Veneers are thin ceramic shells that hug the existing tooth to correct the appearance of teeth that are stained, cracked, chipped, improperly spaced or misaligned.
First, the client comes in and has their teeth evaluated for the veneers. The traditional process takes up to two weeks to fabricate the veneers and they are placed in a follow up visit. Temporary veneers can be placed during that gap.
Ask your dentist for more information about veneers and to learn how they work.
Dental Implant
Replace missing teeth with dental implants. These artificial titanium tooth roots offer patients the most natural appearing results. They also preserve the jawbone which can deteriorate from missing teeth.
Dentures
Dentures are a removable replacement for missing teeth and can replace both full and partial sets of teeth.
For full sets, any remaining teeth are removed. There are two common approaches for full sets:
With Conventional Full Dentures, all the teeth are removed, and the tissue is given time to heal. This typically takes several months, and the patient is without teeth during that time. Once the healing is complete, the dentures are created.
With Immediate Full Dentures, measurements are performed before the teeth are removed, and dentures are ready immediately afterward. The gum tissue will change shape as it heals, and the dentures will need to be tightened later.
Tooth Extraction
The extraction of wisdom teeth is a fairly common procedure. In ancient times, humans would typically lose a few teeth and the remaining teeth would shift to fill in the gap. The wisdom teeth were located in the back of the jaw intended to be deployed in an opening.
Modern dentistry has prevented that tooth loss, so a new problem has come out: Mature wisdom teeth with no place to go start trying to breach the surface at an angle or under existing teeth. Wisdom teeth are also vulnerable to infection and may cause pain and swelling.
For extraction, an incision is made in the gum and the tooth is pulled out. In some cases the tooth may need to be cut into segments and removed in pieces.
Wisdom teeth can be removed individually or all four may be taken out at once. The patient can be placed completely out or have a local anesthetic. Either way, the patient will receive painkillers for after the procedure and will need a ride home.
Invisalign
Invisalign is a way to straighten teeth without the wires and brackets of traditional braces. Instead, it uses a series of clear “aligners” that are precisely created for your teeth.
Patients fit the aligners over their teeth, wearing them constantly for two weeks. The aligners need to be removed to eat or brush but are left in place the rest of the time while it slowly moves the teeth.
Patients will go typically go through 12 to 48 sets of aligners, and the average process time is between 6 and 15 months.
Braces
The age of stainless steel braces is beyond us. While we offer transparent Invisalign teeth straighteners, some patients prefer or benefit more from modern bracket and wire braces.
The new generation of braces use ceramic brackets, not stainless steel, that blend in more naturally with the tooth color. Advances also allow the teeth to move faster, cutting down on the number of office visits needed to complete a treatment.
Root Canal Treatment
Root canal has a notorious reputation as a long, scary procedure. The Alfred Hitchcock of dentistry. Fortunately for the patient, medical technology has made this important procedure much quicker and less painful than it was in the past when it earned its dark reputation.
Endodontics are dental procedures that deal with the nerve endings in the root of teeth. Sometimes teeth become infected and those nerves need to be removed to prevent forming an abscess that could lead to loss of parts of the jaw bone.
In a root canal, a local anesthetic is applied, and the dentist drills into the tooth, creating an opening that leads to the nerve. The dentist will use this opening to remove infected tissue and will typically replace the tooth with a crown. After the procedure, some pain is normal, but can typically be treated with over the counter medicine.
Inlays and Onlays
Inlays and onlays are best thought of as partial crowns. Instead of reducing the tooth to a small foundation for an artificial tooth, like a crown, decayed areas of the tooth are removed. A mold of the tooth is created, and the piece is created in 2 to 3 weeks. Inlays and onlays look natural and work like natural teeth.
Dental Crown Lengthening
Sometimes tooth decay appears below the gumline, requiring the removal of some bone and gum tissue. With crown lengthening, part of the gum and bone are moved to allow the dentist to access the part of the tooth in need of help.
In addition, crown lengthening is sometimes done to improve the appearance of a “gummy” smile where the flesh hides part of the teeth, making them look short and stubby. By reshaping the gum and bone tissue, the proper amount of the tooth can be made visible to improve the look.
Gum Grafting
A soft tissue graft moves gum tissue around or borrows tissue from the roof of the mouth to fix significant gum recessions.
When gums recede they may expose the root of a tooth, exposing it’s soft constitution to bacteria and plaque and pain from hot and cold food and drink. Slight gum recessions can be fixed with improved dental hygiene, but more severe gum recessions should be corrected before more serious problems develop.