What is Dental Resin Used For?

While dental resin sounds like something from an industrial workshop, it is easily the most important tooth-coloured paste we use in modern clinics.

If you have ever had a white filling to fix a cavity, that was dental resin. When you get a chipped front tooth smoothed over or a dark gap between your front teeth closed up during a lunch break, that is resin bonding too. We even use runny resin as a permanent cement to glue ceramic crowns onto teeth, and pink resin to build the gum sections of full dentures.

Preserving Healthy Tooth Tissue at Northlane Dental?

By far it’s the fact you preserve your own healthy tooth. We used to have to drill away portions of solid tooth in order to create the mechanical retention that the amalgam needed in order to stay in place; now it’s bonded chemically to your tooth, all we remove is the decayed soft tissue.
To help prevent cavities in children who chew their food in their back teeth, dentists paint an ultra-thin layer of resin over the deep grooves of the teeth.

Some advice from Northlane Dental Team?

Drink dark tea but rinse your mouth with plain water to prevent pigmenting of the resin surface.
Avoid biting into crackling or unpopped popcorn with your cosmetic bonded teeth.
Choose a soft-bristled toothbrush with a regular fluoride paste to prevent any scratches on your polishing shine.

Commonly Asked Questions

Can resin match my real tooth colour?

Yes, we have dozens of shade tabs to blend with your natural smile so nobody knows.

How long will the appointment last?

Most composite fillings and bonding jobs take forty minutes to complete.

Will the procedure hurt?

Not at all. For cosmetic edge bonding, we do not even need to use numbing injections because we do not drill anywhere near the nerve.