Composite Bonding Compared With Ceramic Restorations for Crooked Teeth

For crooked teeth, composite bonding is miles better for slight misalignment, while ceramic crowns are far too aggressive on sound teeth.

A tucked-back tooth is completely solid beneath the surface. The dentist simply adds white dental paste to the front edge, setting it rock-hard in thirty seconds so the tooth sits flush with its neighbours. You never hear a drill or feel an injection.

Ceramic crowns are tough stone helmets made for broken teeth, not healthy ones. To make a crooked tooth look straight with porcelain, a dentist has to grind away half your good tooth to fit the cap. Grinding down healthy teeth just to straighten an edge risks snapping into the live nerve.

A college lecturer visiting from Manchester came into our surgery at 38 North Lane in Aldershot (GU12 4QG) fed up with a front tooth tucked behind the others. We shaped white bonding resin over the front surface in forty minutes, bringing his tooth into line without any drilling.

Ring our Aldershot practice on 01252 310668 to discuss straightening crooked teeth.