Dental Restoration Guide

According to docshop.com, dental inlays and onlays have other benefits besides treating dental decay. We’ve listed some below that you maybe interested in:

It helps eliminate tooth sensitivity and eventual tooth loss

It’s virtually invisible

It won’t contract nor expand

It strengthens teeth up to 75 percent

It lasts up to 30 years

It prevents the need for more extensive treatment later on

However, these porcelain inlays and onlays have a drawback: the price. The price ranges from $650 to $1,200 each, with an average cost of $900. We would suggest you get a list of available dentists within your area and ask for the prices.

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After the direct restorations, we move on the indirect ones starting with dental inlays or onlays. These are used to repair teeth with mild or moderate amount of cavity or decay, or restore cracked or fractured tooth.

Usually these things are made of porcelain, composite resin, or gold. For those who want to look normal they go for the first two, those who want to stand out take the last one. As mentioned, last time, indirect restorations happen in a lab of sorts. Therefore, there will be a lot of trips to the dentist to make sure that the in or outlay is correctly done.

We will discuss the advantages of inlays and onlays on the next post.

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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.