That is the reason why dental restoration has boomed in the past couple of years, our drive to attain and maintain that perfect smile. As we all know it, we are living longer and staying active during our lives may it be socially or at work. This places certain needs on our need to have perfect smiles at any age and with the many innovative products of today, that has become easy as pie.
Dental veneers, jackets and crowns, and many other procedures that allow even the most neglected teeth to shine and look as good as new are available to most, offered by dentists and other specialists. Trauma and sickness are no longer a factor for veneers that stick onto your teeth gives them equal color and shine. Crowns give new life to decayed and long dead teeth that after sometime can be built-up to look as good as the real thing. Implants give bare jaws teeth as they should be, if they had been cared for properly. The dental technology of today, offers all types of beautification programs so what are you waiting for, give your dentist a call so you can at last get that perfect smile you’ve been dreaming of since childhood (don’t forget your wallet though, they’ll cost you!).
Dental Restorations are used to restore damaged and decayed teeth to normalcy. If it can be restored it no longer needs to be taken out.
As mentioned in the About pages, there are two types, direct and indirect restorations. The first type, is placed in the tooth itself. Materials used for this type are the following: amalgam, dental composite, or restorative materials. The second type of restoration is usually created in a laboratory. Materials used for those are the following: inlays and onlays, crowns, bridges, and veneers.
We will first discuss all the types of direct restorations in the next posts.
Direct restorations are the most common restorations. They refer to fillings that are consisted of dental amalgam or silver fillings, glass ionomers and resin ionomers or white fillings. These are then placed into a prepared cavity. This procedure is done in only one visit to the dentist. On the other hand, Indirect restorations are custom made fillings in dental laboratories, according to the prescription made by the dentist. The actual procedure may be finished in two visits. Indirect restoration is more expensive than direct restorations since the former consists of a more complex (at least for me) layer of inlays, onlays, dental crowns, and bridges.