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Composite Bonding
What is composite bonding?
Composite bonding is a modern way to restore teeth, either for cosmetic reasons, or to build up tooth structure that has been lost. It involves bonding a tooth coloured resin material to existing teeth to reshape them or improve their colour. The colour of the resin is matched to your teeth, so it will appear as though it is a natural part of the tooth.
What are the advantages of composite bonding?
Composite bonding is particularly good because it is relatively non-invasive in that often it is not necessary to remove any tooth structure. We simply add directly onto the tooth. We do not need to drill your tooth and often no anaesthetic is required.
Case 1 - Composite bonding to restore mildly worn teeth
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Case 2 - Composite bonding to reshape crooked teeth
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My teeth are severely worn. Can you use composite bonding to build them back up?
Whereas in the past it would have been necessary to crown worn teeth to build them back up again, a more conservative and economical approach possible today is to use adhesive restorations that are bonded to the remaining tooth structure. These adhesive restorations simply replace the tooth structure that has been lost, not only restoring your teeth but also helping to protect them from further wear.
One of the disadvantages with adhesive restorations is that for teeth that are more severely worn, the demands on the bond between the tooth and the restoration are quite high. If a restoration fails or fractures repeatedly it may be that such a tooth would benefit from restoration using a crown.
Case 1 - Composite bonding to restore moderately worn teeth
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