Ideally, everyone would enjoy strong, healthy teeth for life, but unfortunately, the reality is often somewhat different. Teeth can become damaged due to decay, gum disease, or trauma that chips or breaks them or can knock out teeth entirely. When something happens to damage the structure of your teeth, restorative dentistry in Bowmanville can help repair and protect these teeth or replace them.
Restorative dentistry covers several dental procedures designed to restore structure, strength, function and appearance to teeth. Once completed, your teeth should feel strong, look good, and bite together correctly, enabling you to eat without fear of pain or discomfort. Restorative dental treatments that may be used include tooth-coloured fillings, dental crowns, bridges, veneers and dental implants.
Tooth Coloured Fillings
A cavity in a tooth can usually be repaired with a filling. West Bowmanville Family Dental can provide beautiful tooth-coloured fillings that help protect and preserve your teeth and are virtually invisible. Small fillings are made from a strong, durable material of tooth-coloured composite resin. Larger cavities can be repaired with porcelain fillings custom-made to fit the cavity exactly and are long-lasting.
Dental Crowns
When a tooth is more severely damaged and has lost a substantial part of its structure, our dentist in Newcastle may suggest a crown that covers the tooth entirely right down to the gumline. This is often the case for teeth that have received root canal therapy. Dental crowns can be made from various materials, but the most modern are all ceramic and can look amazing.
Dental Bridges
Dental bridges are made to fill in the gap left by missing teeth and are semipermanent restorations that can only be removed by a dentist. They are strong and durable, and we take tremendous care to design our bridges to look and feel exactly like real teeth. The adjacent teeth are used to support the bridge and are carefully reshaped to be covered with crowns attached to the replacement tooth.
Porcelain Veneers
Porcelain veneers in Clarington are very thin shells of porcelain custom-made to fit over the front surface of teeth. They are very useful in protecting and covering broken or chipped teeth. Veneers are frequently used in cosmetic dentistry to improve the appearance of crooked, stained or misshapen teeth.
Same-Day Restorations
Our practice is equipped with E4D digital technology, an advanced milling machine that creates crowns, bridges, porcelain fillings and porcelain veneers in one day. The technology is used in combination with our iTero scanner. This small handheld device scans teeth, taking hundreds of pictures stitched together to create a digital dental impression and replaces uncomfortable and messy tray impressions. The result is precision-made restorations that look and feel wonderful and eliminate the need for temporary restorations.
Dental Implants
People who are missing complete arches of teeth or where teeth aren’t strong enough to support an ordinary dental bridge might be interested in having dental implants in Courtice. These are self-supporting, using small titanium or zirconia posts surgically inserted into the jawbone to hold replacement teeth. They are a great solution for replacing single teeth with an implant crown, or multiple implants can be used to support an implant bridge or an implant denture.
People missing all their teeth might be suitable for an advanced procedure called All-on-Four or teeth in the day. With this treatment, it’s possible to get a complete set of replacement teeth in a single day.
