A bloke came into Envy Smile Dental last Tuesday feeling quite down about his top front teeth. He told me he looked in the mirror one morning and realised his top teeth looked like little flat squares. Years of grinding his jaw at night and drinking fizzy cans of pop had scrubbed his enamel right down.<\/p>\r\n
He looked at me and went: can you actually fix worn front teeth with bonding, or am I stuck paying thousands for crowns?<\/p>\r\n
I told him straight out: bonding is hands down your best shout here.<\/p>\r\n
Think about it this way. His teeth were already worn down to the nub. If I started buzzing away with a dental drill to prep him for crowns, I would end up grinding away what tiny bit of enamel he had left. That would put me right on top of the nerve, which means root canals and awful toothache.<\/p>\r\n
With composite resin, we do not cut anything away. I took a tiny dab of blue etch gel, cleaned the worn edges, brushed on some liquid glue, and literally sculpted white composite paste straight onto his biting edges while he watched in a little hand mirror. I built the missing height back on, curved the edges so they followed his lower lip, and set the paste hard with our blue light gun.<\/p>\r\n
Whole thing took about 50 minutes. Zero numbing needles. No drill buzz. He had a brew, checked his new smile in the car mirror, and was buzzing.<\/p>\r\n
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.<\/p>\r\n
Visit our page on composite bonding London<\/strong><\/a> to explore treatment options, costs, and expert advice.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"