{"id":8608,"date":"2026-11-04T19:12:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T19:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.envysmile.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8608"},"modified":"2026-11-04T19:12:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T19:12:04","slug":"can-tooth-bonding-fix-small-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.envysmile.co.uk\/blog\/can-tooth-bonding-fix-small-teeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Tooth Bonding Fix Small Teeth?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Some people are simply born with teeth that grew in smaller than normal. Dentists call this microdontia. A young woman visited Envy Smile Dental recently feeling really self-conscious because her upper teeth looked like children&#8217;s milk teeth, leaving gaps across her smile.<\/p>\r\n<p>She sat in my chair and asked: can tooth bonding actually fix small teeth, or will they just look fake and bulky?<\/p>\r\n<p>I told her: bonding is hands down the safest, neatest way to treat small teeth.<\/p>\r\n<p>Taking a drill to small teeth makes no sense at all. They are already tiny, so if you shave away enamel for veneers, you risk hitting the nerve inside and causing horrible toothaches.<\/p>\r\n<p>Bonding is purely additive. We leave your natural teeth completely untouched.<\/p>\r\n<p>I washed her enamel, painted on clear dental glue, and built out the flanks of each small tooth with white composite paste. She watched in a hand mirror while I widened the narrow spots and closed the empty spaces. Our blue light gun set the material solid in twenty seconds. Then I buffed the fronts until they matched the shine of her other teeth.<\/p>\r\n<p>She spent an hour in the chair, didn&#8217;t need any needles, and left with a full, natural smile that gave her instant confidence.<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>Some people are simply born with teeth that grew in smaller than normal. Dentists call this microdontia. A young woman visited Envy Smile Dental recently feeling really self-conscious because her upper teeth looked like children&#8217;s milk teeth, leaving gaps across her smile. She sat in my chair and asked: can tooth bonding actually fix small &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.envysmile.co.uk\/blog\/can-tooth-bonding-fix-small-teeth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can Tooth Bonding Fix Small 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-8608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envysmile.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8608","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=8608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.envysmile.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8609,"href":"https:\/\/www.envysmile.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8608\/revisions\/8609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envysmile.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envysmile.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envysmile.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}