A lady came into Envy Smile Dental last Friday complaining about a sharp zing every time she drank iced tea. She pointed to a premolar tooth on her upper right side. Whenever she smiled in the mirror, she could see a little brown dip right by the gum.
She looked at me and asked: can you bond a premolar, or do you have to cut it down for a crown?
I said: don’t worry, we can bond that up in twenty minutes.
Premolars sit between your sharp canines and your back molars. They get a fair bit of chewing action, but they aren’t subjected to the massive grinding forces of back teeth. Her problem was classic toothbrush wear. She had been scrubbing her teeth with a hard plastic brush, which gouged out a tiny ditch near the gumline and exposed the root.
I told her to sit back and relax. I didn’t use a drill at all. I washed out the little notch with warm water, dabbed on blue dental conditioner, and brushed on our bonding glue. Then I patted a tiny smear of white composite paste right into the ditch.
I set the paste with our blue curing lamp and buffed the edge flush with her enamel.
She took a sip of cold water from our cup right away zero twinges. She hopped out of the chair without any numb lips and drove home happy.
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