When you have a chipped or cracked tooth, or one with cavities or infection, you need treatment to keep your smile whole and intact. With restorative dentistry, we can repair damage and treat serious issues, even tooth loss. In today’s blog, your Leawood, KS, dentist talks about how we help smiles with restorative dentistry.
When You Need Restorative Dentistry
Restorative dentistry refers to treatments designed to return teeth to optimal health, function, and beauty, sometimes in as little as one visit. When you have a tooth that hurts or has sensitivity that doesn’t subside after a day or two, then you should visit our team. Likewise, you should see us should a tooth sustain an injury or be knocked out or lost. Our team will conduct a detailed exam with advanced digital imagery, so we can assess the cause and extent of your restorative concerns, and choose the best treatment option. We want to help you smile with confidence again, and avoid complications, such as worsening pain or even tooth loss.
Dental Fillings
Restorative dentistry can enable our team to take on tooth decay in one visit with a filling. Instead of a metal one, our team can offer treatment with a composite resin and metal-free option, one that can be shaded to blend with your tooth. Composite resin is also biocompatible, and bonds with the tooth for years to come. Placement is simple. We will numb the tooth to keep your comfortable as we remove the decay and clean the tooth. We then apply the prepared filling material and shape the tooth as the composite resin cures under a light. The last step is to polish the tooth for a brighter appearance!
Bonding and Contouring Procedures
Composite resin isn’t just reserved for dental fillings. Our team can use the same material to repair a tooth and even mask common cosmetic imperfections. For example, we can repair cracked or chipped teeth, lengthen worn down teeth, and even correct misshapen teeth. We could close gaps and black triangle spaces between the teeth too. Along with bonding, we could also correct issues with contouring. The contouring procedure involves our team sanding and buffing the outer structure to correct overly large or misshapen teeth, address the appearance of a minor chip, and smooth away pits, grooves, and rough patches in the tooth. We can even correct dull, sharp, or pointed teeth in only one visit.
Custom Crowns
What if you have decay or an infection too severe for a filling or bonding procedure? Then with restorative dentistry, we can create a dental crown. Our custom crowns are created from materials like porcelain, porcelain-fused-to-metal, and zirconia, all of which can be shaded to blend with your smile and offer a lifelike appearance. Our team will numb the tooth and then remove structure to make room for the restoration. We take detailed images and impressions, using them in a lab setting to design and craft your crown, which we will attach with a powerful bonding agent, securing it in place for years to come.
Dental Bridges
What if you have a missing tooth? For cases of one to three missing teeth in a row, our team can place a dental bridge. The prosthetic will contain one to three new teeth with a crown on one or both ends. The crowns are attached to the abutment teeth, the ones on each side of the gap, which supports your new teeth for 10 to 15 years on average. We will custom-make the prosthetic to ensure a proper fit and a balanced bite, and the material is also shaded to blend with the smile, so you feel confident in showing off your newly restored smile.
Root Canal Therapy
What if a tooth is infected? An infection is much more serious than a cavity, and lack of treatment could allow a tooth to be lost and infection to reach other teeth or move into the jawbone. But we can help with a root canal! With this procedure, we will gently remove the tissues from the interior of the tooth, replacing them with a special filling. We then cap the tooth with a crown, one that looks natural and offers a balanced bite. If you have any questions about restorative dentistry, then contact our team today to learn more.
Do You Have Any Questions About Restorative Dentistry?
We want to use restorative dentistry to help return your smile to optimal health, function, and beauty again. Call Dreem Dentistry in Leawood, KS by calling (913)681-5500 to learn more.
