A lady came into Envy Smile Dental last Tuesday feeling quite down about her mouth. She had these stubborn brown blotches on her two front teeth that she got as a kid, and no amount of whitening toothpaste would shift them. She told me she had wasted hundreds of quid on bleaching trays that did bugger all.
She looked at me and went: can you actually fix stained teeth with bonding, or am I stuck with these marks forever?
I told her right away: bonding is honestly your best bet here.
Bleach only works on everyday tea or coffee stains. If the discoloration is buried deep down in your enamel from when you were little, whitening gel won’t touch it. But grinding your tooth down for a ceramic veneer is crazy when the tooth is healthy.
With composite resin, we do not cut anything away. I took a tiny dab of blue etch gel, cleaned the surface, brushed on some liquid glue, and literally sculpted white composite paste straight over the front face while she watched in a little hand mirror. I put down a tiny smear of blocker first so the brown patch couldn’t peek through, and smoothed tooth-coloured resin over the top. Our blue light gun set it rock hard in twenty seconds.
Whole thing took about 45 minutes. Zero numbing needles. No drill buzz. She had a brew, checked her new smile in the car mirror, and was buzzing.
People always ask how long it holds up. Honestly, composite resin is tough stuff. Most patients get five or six years before they need a quick polish to get rid of tea marks. If you happen to crack a corner on a stubborn pistachio nut, don’t sweat it. You just pop back into our chair, and we stick a fresh patch on in ten minutes flat.
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