Bonding and Sealants
BONDING
Chances are you picked up this brochure because you are interested in improving your smile. Composite bonding offers a simple method of restoring your smile to its original beauty and even improving upon nature. Your dentist can actually enhance your smile with bonding (a form of cosmetic dentistry) for a wide variety of restorative applications.
What Is Composite Bonding?
Composite bonding is one of the most conservative, versatile and affordable ways to aesthetically restore a multitude of dental cases. Your dentist uses this natural-looking, synthetic material to:
- Restore cavities in front and back teeth
- Replace old or unattractive "silver fillings"
- Repair root abrasion (on roots exposed by gum recession or notched by years of aggressive brushing). Covering these areas help prevent cavities and improves their appearance.
- Close diastemas (spaces between the teeth)
- Restore chipped or fractured teeth
- Improve or change the color of permanently stained or discolored teeth
- Reshape crooked or misshapen teeth
SEALANTS
Sealants can help preserve your child's smile for a lifetime. Though dental sealants are not a cure-all in preventing tooth decay, they are cost-effective and helpful to patients--particularly children--in controlling decay in certain are; of the mouth.
The Facts About Dental Sealants
A dental sealant is an acrylic-like material that helps shield out decay-causing bacteria from the chewing surfaces of back teeth. We base our diagnosis and recommendation of dental sealants on the patient's susceptibility to tooth decay and how the teeth were shaped when they originally formed below the gum. Though there is no specific age at which sealants are indicated, often we will recommend that the best time to apply them is when the six-year molars (the first permanent back teeth) appear.
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704-494-8484
2416 West Sugar Creek Road
University • Derita Area
704-238-8727
701 E. Roosevelt Blvd., Building 800-B
Opposite Union Regional Hospital
