{"id":8605,"date":"2026-11-04T21:15:02","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T21:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.envysmile.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8605"},"modified":"2026-11-04T21:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T21:15:02","slug":"can-tooth-bonding-fix-broken-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.envysmile.co.uk\/blog\/can-tooth-bonding-fix-broken-teeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Tooth Bonding Fix Broken Teeth?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Breaking a tooth during five-a-side football or falling on a slippery pavement is pure panic. A lad came into Envy Smile Dental on a rainy Tuesday clutching a paper napkin to his mouth. Half of his front incisor had snapped clean off after taking an elbow during a weekend football match.<\/p>\r\n<p>He looked terrified and asked me: can tooth bonding actually fix a broken tooth, or am I going to be toothless for weeks waiting for a crown?<\/p>\r\n<p>I took a quick X-ray and gave him the good news: the root is totally intact and the nerve isn&#8217;t exposed. We can rebuild this whole tooth right now.<\/p>\r\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to walk around with a gaping hole while waiting for a crown. We build the tooth back up by hand right in front of you.<\/p>\r\n<p>I bevelled the rough fracture line, painted on liquid glue, and placed white resin paste layer by layer. I sculpted the missing corner, curved the edge to mirror his other front tooth, and set it with our blue light gun. Then I buffed the tooth with fine sandpaper discs.<\/p>\r\n<p>He checked his smile in the mirror and started laughing. He spent less than an hour with us, didn&#8217;t have a single injection, and went straight back to university with his smile restored.<br \/><br \/>Visit our page on <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.envysmile.co.uk\/composite-bonding-london\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"536\" data-end=\"569\"><strong data-start=\"537\" data-end=\"565\">composite bonding London<\/strong><\/a> to explore treatment options, costs, and expert advice.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking a tooth during five-a-side football or falling on a slippery pavement is pure panic. A lad came into Envy Smile Dental on a rainy Tuesday clutching a paper napkin to his mouth. Half of his front incisor had snapped clean off after taking an elbow during a weekend football match. He looked terrified and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.envysmile.co.uk\/blog\/can-tooth-bonding-fix-broken-teeth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can Tooth Bonding Fix Broken Teeth?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envysmile.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envysmile.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envysmile.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envysmile.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envysmile.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.envysmile.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8612,"href":"https:\/\/www.envysmile.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions\/8612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envysmile.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envysmile.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envysmile.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}