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Bonding

Bonding is a great technique for achieving a better looking smile.  It is used for closing gaps, covering over discolored spots, replacing chipped corners on teeth, filling cavities or just making teeth look whiter are all achieved with bonding.   Bonding is a generic term, which is really a technique that is used to adhere materials to a tooth.  Those materials can be veneers, crowns, inlays, or composite.  The composite material is what is commonly referred to as bonding.  Composite is a resin embedded with quartz and other glass fillers. 

Bonding material is tooth-colored and is applied to the surface of the tooth. It is artistically shaped, sculpted, smoothed, and polished to achieve the desired effect and then a blue, non UV, light is aimed at the material to harden it.  Voilà! The bonding material is hardened in seconds and the teeth are beautiful!

Bonding hardened with a light.
Before After
Following braces the mal formed teeth now had to be restored with bonding to make the teeth look normal in shape for this twelve year old.  We were all excited with the results.
 


Before After

Young boy after having braces removed found that the teeth were ravished with decay and white decalcification lines.  After thoroughly removing all the decay the teeth were bonded with a tooth- colored composite resin, making the teeth look normal again.
 


Before After
Gum tissue-colored composite resin was used to fill in the big hole between the two front teeth, improving the smile.
 


Before After
In the before picture we see a discolored tooth and the biting edges chipped.  The dark tooth is bonded with tooth-colored composite and the teeth are cosmetically contoured.
 


Before After
Tooth erosion from hard tooth brushing.  Teeth bonded and veneered with tooth colored composite.
 


Before After
Two permanent teeth missing.  Teeth recontoured with tooth colored composite to simulate missing teeth. Gum lift done to lengthen teeth.
 


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