Preventive Dentistry
Preventive dentistry is the appointment most likely to prevent a bigger one later — checkups, cleanings, sealants and night guards, with an oral cancer screening at every exam.
Why Preventive Dental Care in Frisco Saves You Time and Money
Catch small problems early, and keep them small. That is the honest case for preventive dental care: the checkups, cleanings and X-rays that find problems while they are small. At White Lotus Dental in Frisco, a cleaning, an exam and a set of X-rays twice a year is the appointment that keeps every other appointment small.
The cavity found at two millimeters is a filling. The same cavity found two years later is a root canal and a crown — more time in the chair, more cost, and a tooth that is never quite the same again.
We have been a preventive home for families on Custer Road since 2017, and we would rather spend the visit explaining what we are looking at than selling you something.
Every preventive dentistry treatment, on its own page.
What a preventive dentistry checkup in Frisco includes
An oral-cancer screening at every exam, X-rays only when they will change something, and the twenty minutes of looking that finds problems while they are still small.
Digital X-rays, only when due
A fraction of the radiation of film, and they show what the eye cannot — decay between teeth, infection at a root tip, bone loss, impacted teeth.
An oral cancer screening
Two minutes across tongue, cheeks, palate, floor of mouth and throat, plus the jaw and neck. Done automatically at every exam, at no extra fee.
Six gum readings per tooth
Recorded and compared against last time. A pocket that has gone from 3mm to 5mm in a year is telling you something a single reading cannot.
Every existing restoration checked
Old fillings crack and crowns loosen. Catching a failing filling before it fails is the least expensive dentistry there is.
Photos of your teeth, shown on screen
When we say a tooth has a crack in it, you see the crack yourself on the screen.
Preventive dental services in Frisco: cleanings, sealants, night guards and more
Teeth cleaning, and when you need a deep cleaning
A hygienist removes plaque and hardened tartar, polishes, flosses and finishes with fluoride. For most patients that is comfortable and takes about forty minutes. If gum disease has already taken hold, a standard cleaning is not the right treatment and we will say so. Tartar below the gumline needs scaling and root planing instead, which is a different appointment with a different goal.
Gum disease treatment
Night guards for teeth grinding and TMJ
A surprising share of the damage we repair was not caused by sugar. It was caused by clenching and grinding, which most people do while asleep and cannot report. The evidence shows up as flattened cusps, hairline cracks, notches at the gumline, morning jaw ache. A custom night guard absorbs the force, sparing your enamel — the least expensive insurance there is against needing crowns in your fifties.
Night guards and teeth grinding
Comfort items you can ask for at any visit
A blanket. A warmed neck pillow. Over-the-ear noise-cancelling headphones, if the sound is the part you dislike — not the treatment. A warm towel afterwards. None of it costs anything and none of it has to be earned by being nervous enough. It is simply there, and the only reason patients miss out is that they are not told it exists. So: it exists. Ask, or tell us when you arrive and we will have it ready.
The home care kit after every visit
Every patient leaves a cleaning, a scaling and root planing or a periodontal maintenance visit with a toothbrush, travel toothpaste and floss. This is not a one-time new-patient gift — every hygiene visit, every time. Children get a coin for the toy machine on the way out. It is a small thing that has quietly cost us for years, and we would rather spend it than have somebody put off replacing a worn-out brush.
Dental sealants and fluoride for adults and children
Molars erupt with grooves a toothbrush bristle is physically too wide to reach. The CDC reports sealants prevent roughly 80% of cavities in molars for two years, and about half for up to four. We place them on children as a matter of course, and on adults with deep anatomy and a cavity history. Fluoride varnish is one of the few things that genuinely reverses very early decay.
Fluoride treatment and sealants
Preventive dental care for the whole family
Preventive dentistry is not only for adults. Children are welcome from their first tooth, and we accept Children's Medicaid and CHIP. Sealants and fluoride protect young molars, adults get exams, cleanings and gum measurements, and everyone gets an oral cancer screening at every exam. We schedule family members back to back, so one trip covers everyone, including Saturday mornings.
Children's dentistry
Preventive dentistry near Frisco, Prosper and Plano
We are at 8175 Custer Rd, Suite A110, Frisco, TX 75035. Appointments are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 9 AM to 6 PM, and Saturday from 9 AM to 3 PM. We are closed on Wednesdays and Sundays, although our team still answers the phone on Wednesdays. Patients come to us from across Frisco and from nearby Prosper, Plano, Little Elm, Allen, Celina and McKinney.
Call (469) 262-2111Regular cleaning or deep cleaning: which do you need?
The difference is not effort or price — it is whether the tartar is above or below the gumline.
| Feature | Routine cleaning | Scaling & root planing |
|---|---|---|
| Treats | Plaque and tartar on the crown | Hardened deposits on the root, inside a pocket |
| Anesthetic | Not needed | Usually, one side at a time |
| Visits | One, about 40 minutes | Usually two |
| Afterwards | Six-month interval | Three or four month maintenance |
| Right when | Pockets are 1–3mm | Pockets are 4mm or deeper |
Gum pocket depth: what six readings per tooth tell us
Gum disease is painless until it is advanced, so it is actively measured at every visit. These numbers, recorded at every exam, are how it is caught early.
- Healthy — the probe stops at 1 to 3mm and the bone sits high against the tooth. Nothing to treat, and this is what we are checking stays true.
- Early pocket — 4 to 5mm. Treatable with a deep clean and a change in home routine, and reversible at this stage.
- Deep pocket — 6mm and beyond, with bone lost around the root. Still treatable, but the bone already lost does not grow back. This is what the six readings exist to prevent.
The technology behind your checkup, and what each tool does
Every practice in Frisco advertises technology. The question worth asking is what each machine changes about your visit.
Digital scanning instead of impression trays. A wand passed around the mouth builds a 3-D model of your teeth on the iTero Lumina — no tray of material, no gagging, and a scan we keep, compare against your previous ones, and re-use for night guards and aligners. It is part of the iTero wellness scan at every visit.
Cavity detection, no radiation. The iTero Lumina uses near-infrared imaging (NIRI). Infrared light passes through the tooth, sound enamel is translucent to it and decay is not, so a lesion between two teeth shows as a shadow. No radiation at all. Useful for small children, for anyone pregnant, and for anyone who would rather not have another X-ray. It adds to the picture; the X-ray still does the job of showing bone levels and anything beneath the gum.
AI review of every X-ray. When an X-ray is taken, Overjet.ai analyzes it in real time alongside the dentist. It measures bone levels and flags decay on every single image. That is exactly the kind of consistency human eyes manage most of the time, but not every time.
Low-dose handheld X-rays. The Nomad Pro 2 comes to you, and emits a very low dose. See more on dental X-rays and imaging.
Chairside monitors and an intraoral camera. Everything we find goes up on the screen at eye level.
CBCT 3-D imaging. Not needed for a routine checkup. It is in the building when a root, a nerve position or an implant site needs to be seen in three dimensions and not two.
A comfortable checkup if you are nervous about the dentist
The dental chair is not most people’s favorite place, and pretending otherwise doesn’t help. Practical things we do by default: anesthetic is warmed before it is used, which removes most of the sting people brace for. Blankets are there for the asking. Neck pillows are warmed. Digital scans replace trays. Nitrous oxide is available with any of our doctors, and oral conscious or IV sedation with Dr. Louie on his scheduled days. That is for patients whose anxiety is real enough that it has kept them away for years — see sedation dentistry.
Searching for preventive dentistry near you? We are on Custer Road in east Frisco.
Preventive dentistry cost in Frisco, and insurance
Where treatment is needed beyond prevention, you get the full figure in writing before anything starts — including what insurance is expected to cover and what it is not.
You get the figure in writing before treatment starts. We accept all major PPO plans and file the claim for you, our membership plan takes a percentage off treatment, and CareCredit financing is available.
How plans usually cover routine and preventive care.
Preventive and diagnostic — Class I on most plans
- What plans pay
- Usually paid at 100%, which is why routine and preventive care feels free at the desk. It is not free; it is prepaid, and it is the part of the plan worth using every year.
- Deductible
- Usually waived. Most plans do not apply the deductible to preventive care, which is one of the few pieces of good news in plan design.
What catches people out
- Frequency limits are counted by date — not by calendar year. "Two cleanings a year" usually means six months and a day between them, so an appointment moved a week early can be the one that is not paid.
- It still spends your annual maximum. The plan paying 100% is the plan paying out, and that draws the ceiling down even though you hand over nothing — which is exactly how two ordinary visits can leave very little behind.
- Some plans exclude preventive care from the maximum altogether. We check whether yours does, because it changes how the whole year should be sequenced.
These are how dental plans usually classify this treatment — not a statement about your own plan. Yours is the one that governs, plans differ more than people expect, and the only reliable answer comes from reading your specific benefits, which we always do ahead of treatment and give you in writing.
And what changes out-of-network
A dentist who is in-network has signed a contract fixing what may be charged for each procedure and cannot bill you the difference. One who is out-of-network has signed nothing, so the full fee stands.
So the first difference is the price itself — the same treatment is simply allowed to cost more out-of-network, before anyone's plan is considered.
What you personally pay out of that depends on your own deductible and coinsurance, which is why there is no percentage here: it is not a property of the treatment, it is a property of your plan, and we verify yours before you commit. But two things follow for everybody. Your share is a share of a bigger number. And your annual maximum is spent by what the plan pays toward that bigger number, so the same treatment eats more of your benefit out-of-network.
The figures are on the treatment pages. This page covers several different procedures, and one chart here would have to average treatments that are not comparable — a filling against a full-arch case. Each treatment page carries its own allowed fee, in network and out.
Check the going rate yourself
FAIR Health's dental cost lookup is free, needs no account, and is not ours — it reports what a procedure typically costs in your area. It does not know your plan, so treat it as a ballpark figure — not a final answer.
Ask us for the number first
We verify your specific plan before your appointment and give you a written estimate: what the plan is expected to pay, and what you pay. If we get it wrong we tell you why.
Bring an Explanation of Benefits
Treated somewhere else? Your EOB shows exactly what the plan paid and what it counted against your maximum. Bring one in and we will read it with you — whether or not you become a patient here.
None of this says out-of-network dentists are worse dentists. Plenty are excellent, plenty are out-of-network for sound reasons, and people choose a dentist for who that person is. What we think you are owed is the information, so that whatever you choose, you chose it knowingly. The whole thing, explained properly, or call (469) 262-2111 and ask.
A year of preventive dental care: what to expect
Twice a year for most people, more often where gums need watching. The point of the schedule is that nothing gets the chance to become urgent.
- Every visitExam and oral-cancer screening
Teeth, existing work, gums, and a check of the soft tissues, throat and jaw. The screening takes two minutes and is the reason it happens automatically at every visit.
- Every visitCleaning and gum pocket measurements
Scaling above and below the gum line, polish, and the pocket depths recorded around every tooth so this year can be compared with last year.
- As neededX-rays, only when needed
Bitewings at the interval your risk warrants — not on a fixed schedule regardless. Decay between teeth is invisible unless you take them.
- Between visitsYour daily home care
Two minutes twice a day and cleaning between the teeth once. Nothing we do in the chair outperforms that, and everything we do depends on it.
- Long termScans that track changes over time
Wear, recession, cracks and pocket depths tracked over years. Change over time is what tells us something is starting, long before it hurts.
Preventive Dentistry in Frisco, TX
New patients are usually seen within a week, and a first visit runs longer than a check-up because the records start from scratch.
- Hours
- Weekdays 9–6
Saturdays 9–3 - Languages
- English, Telugu, Hindi, Urdu
Arabic with Saba, our hygienist, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays
Vietnamese with Anh, our hygienist, Saturdays
Cantonese and Mandarin with Dr. Louie, our periodontist, on his scheduled days, by internal referral
Preventive Dentistry FAQs in Frisco, TX
Grouped so you can go straight to the one you came for.
Preventive Dentistry — common questions
What is preventive dentistry?
How often should I get a dental checkup and cleaning in Frisco?
What happens at a first preventive dentistry visit?
Where can I get a dental checkup near me in Frisco?
Does a dental checkup include a cleaning?
Do you screen for oral cancer?
Are checkups and cleanings covered by dental insurance?
It has been years since my last dentist visit. Is that a problem?
Can my whole family be seen on the same day?
What is covered under preventive dental care?
Is preventive dentistry different for children?
How is preventive dentistry different from regular dentistry?
Do you offer checkups and cleanings on Saturdays?
Toothache at 7am? You'll be seen today.
Same-day and Saturday appointments for toothaches, broken teeth, knocked-out teeth and lost crowns. Call us and we'll tell you what to do first, while you're still at home.
Everything else under this roof.
White Lotus Dental offers nine dental specialties inside one calm office on Custer Road. Having general dentists and an in-house periodontist on staff means your entire family can receive preventive, restorative, and surgical treatments in one familiar place.
Children's Dentistry
Gentle first dental visits, protective sealants, fluoride applications, and space maintainers. We accept Children's Medicaid and CHIP, and every young patient receives a toy-machine token at the end of their visit.
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Orthodontics
Clear aligners with Invisalign® and comprehensive traditional braces. Your treatment is fitted, monitored, and adjusted in-house by your trusted dentist.
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Missing Teeth
Permanent dental implants, dental bridges, and customized dentures planned using 3-D CBCT scans. Because our team includes a board-certified periodontist, your implant surgery, placement, and final crown are completed in the same building.
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Cosmetic Dentistry
Professional Zoom whitening, custom take-home whitening trays, and composite tooth bonding designed to brighten and refine your natural smile.
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Periodontics & Oral Surgery
Specialized gum disease therapy, scaling and root planing (deep cleanings), frenectomies, and periodontal surgery performed by our board-certified periodontist.
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Restorative Dentistry
Custom porcelain crowns, bridges, tooth-colored fillings, and full-mouth restorations crafted to match the natural look, feel, and function of your teeth.
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Sedation Dentistry
Relaxing dental care tailored to your comfort level. We offer nitrous oxide (laughing gas) for any routine clinic visit, as well as oral and IV sedation planned ahead with our periodontist.
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Emergency Dentistry
Toothaches, broken teeth, knocked-out teeth and lost crowns — seen the same day, Saturdays included.
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