If your dental work keeps failing, if nobody can explain what's wrong, or if you've been told nothing more can be done, you are in the right place. Dr. Allison House specializes in the diagnostic work most practices don't have time for.
Most dental problems that keep coming back have a deeper cause. A crown that will not stay. A jaw that hurts. Teeth that shift after a single tooth is lost. The symptom is visible. The cause is almost always hidden.
For 24 years, Dr. Allison House has built her practice around finding those hidden causes. Cone beam CT imaging, full-series X-rays, digital scans, and a two-hour first visit that actually looks at the whole picture. She collaborates with oral surgeons, orthodontists, and sleep specialists when a case calls for it, and plans the treatment around what the data actually shows.
Patients across Phoenix find their way here after somewhere else fell short. Not for another opinion. For the answer. Dr. House does not stop at the symptom. She finds the cause, treats it, and builds care around the whole picture of your health.
These are the eight most common reasons patients come to House Dental after trying other providers. Choose the one closest to what you are going through.
Clicking, locking, morning pain, ear pressure, or headaches that no medication fully resolves. Often traces back to a jaw position issue others have missed.
A crown that has been replaced two or three times is rarely a crown problem. It is a bite problem. Until the cause is found, the next crown will fail too.
When a tooth is lost and not replaced, the neighbors start moving. The bite changes. More teeth break. The fix is to address the cascade, not one broken tooth at a time.
You have quietly switched to soft foods. You avoid restaurants. Food is medicine, and losing the ability to chew changes your diet, your weight, and your overall health.
When dental work keeps failing, the issue is almost never skill. It is a diagnosis that did not go deep enough. A different kind of exam usually finds what was missed.
Your neurologist checked. Your GP checked. The headaches continue. The connection to your jaw, your bite, and your sleep often gets missed until a dentist looks at the whole picture.
All-on-4 is a legitimate treatment. It is also being over-prescribed. For many patients, locator dentures or staged implants produce better long-term outcomes.
Your mouth is the beginning of your digestive system. Sleep, inflammation, nutrition, and stress all connect through it. Treating the mouth and the body together is the point.
The same four principles guide every complex case that walks through our door.
Before Dr. House recommends anything, she spends two full hours collecting data. Cone beam CT imaging. Full-series X-rays. Digital scans. Medical history. Sleep patterns. Medications. Diet. She looks at the whole picture before she forms an opinion.
A crown placed on a bad bite will fail again. Medication for headaches will not fix the grinding causing them. We find what is actually driving the problem and address it at the root. That is the only way the result holds.
When a case needs an oral surgeon, an orthodontist, a sleep medicine specialist, or a denturist, Dr. House brings them in. She builds the plan. The team executes it. You get a single cohesive treatment instead of handoffs and repeated work.
Every plan is individualized, and the pace is yours. We stage treatment when it makes sense, phase financing when it helps, and never push care you are not ready for. The right plan is the one that works for your life.
If your question is not here, call us and ask. We would rather talk it through than sell you a visit.
Time and diagnostic depth. A standard dental exam runs 20 to 30 minutes. A first visit with Dr. House runs two hours, and it includes cone beam CT imaging, full-series X-rays, digital scans, a full medical history review, and a careful look at how everything is connected. Most complex dental problems have a cause that does not show up in a quick exam. We make time to find it.
Usually it means the provider reached the limit of what they could see with the tools and time they had. That is not the same as nothing can be done. It means the answer requires a different kind of investigation. Patients are often surprised by what a cone beam CT and a two-hour diagnostic visit can reveal. Learn what a first visit actually looks like.
If you want quick, routine dentistry delivered fast, there are many good options in Phoenix. If you have a problem that has not been solved, a history of failed dental work, or symptoms that cross specialties, this is the kind of practice built for your case. Call us. We will tell you honestly if we think we can help.
Frequently. Many of our patients stopped going to the dentist because it never felt like anyone was really listening. A first visit here starts with a conversation, not a drill. Dr. House sits down, asks about your whole health, and walks you through what she sees before she ever recommends treatment.
Any records or X-rays from previous dentists that you can access, a current list of your medications, and your insurance information if applicable. Write down what has been happening and any questions you want answered. We want to hear all of them.
Yes. House Dental is in Arcadia at Camelback and 32nd Street. Patients come regularly from Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Biltmore, and Central Phoenix, and we have patients who travel in from outside the Valley for complex care.
A two-hour first visit costs less than months of treatment that does not work. Start with the diagnosis.