DENTAL CROWNS and FILLINGS

With the amount of work our teeth do for us every day, it’s no surprise that they sometimes become diseased or damaged. While dental diseases, such as decay, are preventable with the proper care and hygiene, few of us will escape the need for at least a filling during our lifetimes. When you have a cavity, a broken tooth, or suffer from tooth loss, the team at Dr. Mathew's TLC Dental Spa is here to help find the solution.

Why We Choose Tooth-Colored Fillings

Dr. Mathew believes that even the most common dental procedures can be a work of art, which is part of the reason she chooses to use natural-looking white fillings over silver amalgam ones. Composite, or white, fillings also offer a more conservative solution to cavities because they require us to remove less tooth structure.

Because composite chemically bonds to the tooth, we only need to remove the decay and prepare the surface of the tooth for bonding to the filling.

With amalgam fillings, since it depends on mechanical retention, more tooth structure has to be removed, this is necessary for the filling to stay in place. Many people would also like to avoid the mercury used in amalgam fillings. In many cases, when we detect decay early, treatment requires only a small filling where anesthetic may not even be necessary.

Dental Crowns to Repair and Rebuild Teeth

Habits such as teeth grinding and chewing ice can take a toll on your healthy teeth, causing small fractures or large cracks in the teeth over time. Other diseases like dental decay or an infected root can also lead to the need for a protective cover over your tooth. Sometime referred to as crowns, or caps, dental crowns cover the entire tooth structure to reinforce it. Rather than a cracked tooth absorbing the force of chewing, the dental crown takes on much of the work, protecting the tooth and nerve beneath it.