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How Composite Bonding Can Enhance Your Smile

In Cosmetic March 22, 2023

Damaged teeth or gaps between teeth may leave you feeling insecure about your smile and affect your quality of life. However, improving the appearance and look of your teeth does not always require expensive and complicated cosmetic dental treatments. If you want to improve your smile, composite bonding is an excellent dental treatment to consider. Composite bonding is a convenient, simple, and cost-effective way to enhance your smile’s look and protect your teeth from further damage. Here is what you should know about composite bonding.

What Is Composite Dental Bonding?

Composite bonding is a dental treatment that enhances your smile by covering defects or damage to your teeth. Dentists use composite resin, a moldable material, to reshape your teeth by filling damaged or unsightly areas on the tooth to create a perfect and uniform look. The composite resin can fill indentations or chips in the teeth and eliminate gaps between them, making it ideal for treating a variety of minor cosmetic dental problems in a single procedure.

After the composite resin permanently bonds to your teeth, it will look and feel like normal tooth enamel. The composite resin is artfully blended with the color of your teeth to prevent the bonded areas from being noticeable.

What Dental Issues Can Composite Bonding Fix?

Composite bonding is ideal for people with minor dental issues who are seeking a cosmetic treatment to give them a more confident and beautiful smile. Composite bonding can be used to fix the following dental problems:

  • Discolored or yellow teeth
  • Decayed teeth
  • Broken teeth
  • Chipped teeth
  • Slightly crooked teeth
  • Gaps between teeth

Unfortunately, composite bonding is not ideal for serious dental issues such as severely misaligned teeth, underbites, overbites, and fractured teeth. Your dentist can discuss the alternative options that you can use to restore your smile, such as dental crowns or braces to straighten your teeth.

How Can Composite Bonding Improve Your Smile?

  • Improve a Tooth’s Appearance: Having a tooth that is different from other teeth is normal. Composite bonding can help you balance your smile by ensuring all your teeth look similar. Composite bonding can help to restore teeth that are abnormally shaped, crooked, chipped, or discolored. Because of the composite resin used in dental bonding, your teeth will have a more uniform appearance and color.
  • Fill Gaps Between Teeth: Composite bonding is an excellent dental treatment for filling gaps between teeth. Bonding is a simple and easy way to close these gaps or spaces to prevent food from sticking in the gaps and make eating much easier. Composite bonding is durable and can last up to 10 years or more with proper oral care. You can keep your composite bonded smile intact by avoiding sticky or hard foods.
  • Cover Exposed Tooth Roots: Composite dental bonding can effectively and quickly repair damaged teeth without the need for complex and expensive dental procedures. Individuals with exposed tooth roots caused by receding gums can undergo bonding to cover the roots and prevent increased sensitivity to hot and cold foods. In addition, bonding will boost the aesthetics and appearance of their smile.

Do You Want to Enhance Your Smile?

If you are looking for a convenient, effective, and cost-effective way to boost your confidence and improve the aesthetics of your smile, composite bonding may be your ideal solution. If you’re interested in composite bonding, make an appointment with your dentist to find out if this treatment is right for you.

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Dr. Pescastore,

I just had to take a minute to let you know how much me and my family appreciate everything you have done for us. When we met in 2001 I was honestly anxious about the work I needed to have done. I was nervous about the results and also about the potential pain it might take to achieve the smile I wanted. You were so thorough in your evaluation of my extensive dental history and so clear in your explanation of the procedures required that I felt confident to take your recommendations and trust my smile to you. I have never regretted that decision. I am so grateful for the way you and your wonderful staff made every appointment as easy and comfortable as it could possibly have been. I was always happy to be going there knowing I would be treated so well and love the results. I still feel the same way, and look forward to my appointments with you and your caring staff. I really enjoy the spa like feeling and always leave there more relaxed than when I arrived. My friends are always surprised to learn that I look forward to my dentist appointments as they are lamenting about theirs.

I am especially grateful for the way you have treated my daughters. They too had many dentists before you and were nervous about going to the dentist. Thanks to you and Stacey and the rest of your wonderful staff they now share my feeling about going to the dentist and are happy to be there. Brooke is so afraid of needles that even at seventeen years old she still cries if she thinks she might get a shot at the doctors office. She was very nervous before her first appointment with you, in spite of mine and her sisters assurance that it really wouldn't hurt. Thank you for proving us right. Now even Brooke is not afraid to go to the dentist. I also want you to know how grateful I am for the emergency care you gave Sadie when she chipped her front tooth. I really appreciate you changing your own plans for the day to help her. She was so upset about the way her tooth looked that she cried all the way to your office. She, like me, left your office that day feeling great about herself and her smile. You have really made a positive difference in our lives and we are all so grateful to you for it. We all look forward to seeing you and your great team for our future dental needs.

With Great Respect and Many Thanks,

Pennie Gaddis

I look back at old photographs and realize I spent years hiding teeth. I had braces in my 30s and made the mistake of having my orthodontist apply veneers to my discolored, misshapen teeth. I was his first veneers patient, and I learned that when you're having cosmetic dentistry done, you should have a cosmetic dentist do it. When I decided to have those veneers replaced, I found an expert Dr. Pescatore. In fact, it was just a few weeks before my wedding that I asked Dr. Pescatore to do my smile makeover. I trusted him completely and knew from my first appointment that I was in good hands. He impressed me with his concern that my veneers look natural, and they do. My smile is huge in my wedding pictures, not only because I had a new husband but also because I had fabulous new teeth! I'm grateful to Dr. Pescatore and his caring, attentive staff for what they did for me. I finally have the smile I'd always wanted.

Evelyn Dalton

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