Composite Bonding Compared With Ceramic Restorations for Damaged Teeth

For heavily damaged teeth, ceramic restorations are far better because bonding resin cannot protect a crumbling tooth.

If only a small piece flaked off a tooth, composite bonding is a breeze. The dentist cleans the spot, dabs on matching resin, and shines a blue light for twenty seconds.

Teeth that have lost more than half their structure need a lot more help. When an old metal filling cracks a tooth wall, only a thin shell of enamel remains standing. Chewing on a big resin patch will snap that remaining shell right off at the gum. A ceramic crown wraps completely around the tooth stump, bracing all the weakened sides together so the root can handle daily chewing.

A bricklayer who worked across Manchester building sites before settling in Hampshire came to 38 North Lane in Aldershot (GU12 4QG) after a molar crumbled around an old metal filling. Because sixty percent of his tooth wall was missing, we placed a tough ceramic crown to save his tooth from being pulled out.

Ring our Aldershot practice on 01252 310668 to see how we restore damaged teeth.