Dental Bonding and Dentures

Dental Bonding

If you have a gap in between two of your front teeth but you don’t want braces, or you have a minor chip that is too small a problem for veneers you might be the perfect candidate for dental bonding.
Whether your teeth have been chipped, stained or cracked dental bonding can help. In fact, dental bonding procedures are used not only to repair physical damage, but also hereditary flaws and some structural damage that has been caused by decay.

Dental bonding involves the use of composite resin that is specially designed so that it can be color-matched to each patient’s teeth to provide a completely natural-looking result.
As with most dental procedures, the more teeth a patient needs fixed, the longer the procedure will take, however minor dental bonding can usually be done in about an hour.

Dentures

Dentures are removable implants that simulate the look and function of the tooth and its surrounding tissue.Most dentures are constructed with acrylic resins along with some composite materials.There are two major types of dentures.The full denture replaces an entire jaw’s worth of teeth, while a partial denture only replaces multiple or single teeth where there are still healthy teeth present.Full dentures can be put in place after a surgery to remove all teeth in the jaw, but the usual practice involves waiting for the gums to heal properly.A partial denture also serves as a spacer to prevent the living teeth from shifting position.
Most patients of full dentures are in their later years and have lost most of their teeth.Patients of partial dentures are usually people who have lost a tooth to gum disease or injury.All patients receiving dentures find that their chewing improves, their oral hygiene becomes easier, and their speech clears up.On the outside, a denture can drastically improve your smile.

What are the different types of dentures?

There are four primary types of dentures:

• Complete– this type of denture replaces all of the teeth and their adjacent tissues.

• Partial– Partial dentures act as dental bridges as they "bridge" the gap between a missing tooth or teeth.

• Conventional– Conventional dentures allow a recovery time (usually 4 to 8 weeks) after all of the teeth are extracted before the dentures are placed in the mouth.

• Immediate -This type of denture does not allow a healing period after all of the teeth are removed. The denture is immediately fit into the mouth after all teeth are removed. Additional adjustments in the fitting of this type of denture procedure may be necessary as healing occurs.