Composite resins can change your smile. It is sometimes difficult to smile if your teeth are not as attractive as you wanted them to be. It would be such an uneasy feeling to smile when you know your unpleasant teeth will show. Some people are very self conscious abou tthis. Stained, fractured and broken teeth are very common imperfections that can happen with your teeth due to some trauma, high fluoride content of water or accidental injury. These problems can stop you from smiling or you might coveryour mouth with hands when you do smile. You do not really need to harbour such feelings of awkwardness. A simple teeth bonding with composite resin can make a big difference on you on the appearance of your smile and correct all the imperfections. By having this cosmetic procedure, you can also get a milliondollar smile like Hollywood stars.
What is dental bonding?
Dental bonding is a painless procedure which takes about 30 minutes to one hour of chair time for treating one tooth.In fact it is one of the easiest and affordable procedures of cosmetic dental treatment techniques available in dentistry today. A resin material called composite resin is used for bonding. Composite bonding starts with the complete cleaning of your teeth. A composite resin, which is matched to the color of your teeth,is attached on your broken or chipped tooth. Then, it will be cured with uv (ultra-violet) curing light for few minutes.
Advantages
Only one visit is enough to treat one or two teeth. Only few minutes of chair time is required. It involves minimal grinding of the teeth, so more preservation of your own tooth structure (enamel) is there.
It is very inexpensive.
It contains no mercury which is poisonous for your body.
It is very cosmetic and a short cut method for enhancing smile.
Composite bonding has one more advantage. It can be used as fillings. Unlike silver or amalgam fillings, resin material does not shrink and expand like amalgam does. Because of this shrinkage and expansion, after several years teeth can develop cracks in them and eventually make them weak enough to not take the chewing pressure and get fracture.
Disadvantages
It’s color doesn’t remain constant. It stains with use, especially if you frequently take pigmented substances after several years. They do not last as long as veneer or a crown.
Bonding cannot correct all dental cosmeticproblems, like large fractured areas, but it can surely give you some solutionsthat can make a great difference about the way people look at you and the way you feel about yourself.
Uses
Fractured or cracked teeth.
Gaps between teeth.
Change the shape of the teeth.
Dental decay or cavities
To replace old silver fillings to composite tooth colored fillings
The Alternatives
Alternatives to composite bonding will be doing veneers or crowns if you are a candidate for this. Ask your dentist to know more about it.