Composite bonding
Composite bonding uses white filling materials to change the shape of teeth or to cover discoloured parts of them. In most instances, unlike veneers, no drilling of the tooth is necessary and so this procedure is very safe and even reversible. It is very widely used in younger patients where drilling their teeth to place porcelain veneers would be deemed inappropriate as the procedure may kill the nerve in the tooth. It is often used in younger patients as a temporary measure until the patient is old enough to have porcelain veneers. Composite bonding is more likely to be used on smaller numbers of teeth rather than a full arch.
Case Study This patient disliked her in-standing upper right lateral incisor tooth, but was unsure if she would like a tooth in its correct position and so any treatment had to be reversible. By adding tooth coloured filling materials onto the tooth it was possible to build the tooth up into correct alignment. Had the patient not liked the result if cold have been removed without damaging the tooth. Once the patient saw the finished result she was overjoyed at the outcome and certainly did not want it removing.
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