Restorative Dentistry.
Direct Restorations - Fillings placed immediately into a cavity in a single visit.
Our dentists prepare the tooth, place the filling and adjust it in one sitting.
- Composite Fillings - Also known as "bonding", these fillings are a mixture of glass and quartz filler in a resin medium that produces a tooth-colored restoration. Composite fillings provide good durability and have the added benefit of looking like a natural tooth. They last about 10 years.
Indirect Restorations – These restorations are called "indirect" because they are made outside the mouth and then permanently cemented onto the tooth. These restorations are commonly made of porcelain, but sometimes gold is used on back teeth. These fillings and crowns are the only way to restore a damaged or decayed tooth permanently, for your whole lifetime. Please note that these restorations are completely undetecable: modern dentistry means no more dark metal showing along the gumline of a repaired tooth.
- Restore a tooth when there isn’t enough tooth structure remaining to support a large filling
- Protect weak teeth from fracturing
- Restore cracked teeth
- Spaces between front teeth
- Cover badly shaped or discolored teeth
- Cover dental implants
- Strengthen a tooth that has undergone root canal therapy
- Correct a worn down bite.
- Recommended for anterior (front) teeth solutions
- Permanently covers your whole tooth with beautiful porcelain
- Can be made in light shades to match whitened teeth
- Can be used to completely cover ugly stains. You'll smile at everyone.
- Porcelain fillings are lifetime permanent
- Sometimes made of gold, with patient's permisison
- Can be used in cavities of any size
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