What Can Composite Bonding Treat?

What Can Composite Bonding Treat?

Composite bonding is a versatile solution that offers the potential to treat a variety of cosmetic dental issues. It’s one of the least invasive cosmetic dental treatments available, and can be completed within just one visit to the dentist for a quick smile upgrade.

In this guide, we’ll look at what composite bonding can treat and how it works.

How does composite bonding work?

Composite bonding is generally used to restore or fix the way teeth look. The process is carried out by highly experienced cosmetic dentists, as correctly sculpting the composite material can become quite complex. Here’s how the entire composite bonding will go, from start to finish:

1. You decide you want a smile upgrade. You’ve done your research, and you’ve realised you’d like to treat yourself to a cosmetic dental uplift. You can contact us online if you’re at this stage, or have any preliminary questions.
2. Book your consultation and assessment appointment. We take bookings over the phone on 0161 437 2029, or on the handy book now tab at the top right of the screen.
3. Come to the practice for the appointment. We are located in Cheadle, which is easily accessible from the ring road in Manchester. We find most of our patients are impressed with our commitment to providing a calming, luxurious space to come and unwind in as you have your treatment done.
4. During the assessment, our dental team will examine your teeth to see if composite bonding is the correct route of treatment for your concerns. If an alternative means of treatment would benefit you more, we will help advise you on this. At this stage, we may find you have an underlying issue that needs addressing before we go ahead with the bonding process. This is rare. If this is the case, however, we can get you all fixed up and book you in again for your bonding appointment.
5. The preparation stage involves only slight preparation. As one of the least invasive dental procedures there is, composite bonding only requires that we slightly roughen the surface of your teeth before beginning. This is done so the composite resin can stick securely to the tooth once it’s ready and set – enhancing the durability of your treatment.
6. The application process involves the careful application and sculpting of the composite resin to the affected areas. They will mould the resin and check with you that the results meet your expectations before curing.
7. To cure the composite resin, a specialised blue light is used to set the materials in place.
8. The affected tooth (or teeth) is then polished so you achieve a natural, smooth look. Experienced cosmetic dentists will endeavour to try to match your composite to the natural shape and silhouette of the surrounding teeth.

What can composite bonding treat?

Gaps between teeth – Composite bonding is ideal for treating minor gaps between teeth, often referred to as diastema. This is where your dentist will sculpt the composite resin to fill in any minor spaces, carefully mimicking the natural look and feel of your teeth as they work. If you have more complex issues or more noticeable gaps, alternative routes of treatment may be recommended instead.

Tooth discolouration – For tooth discolouration concerns that cannot be removed with whitening agents, composite bonding is an excellent option. It simply covers over the affected area with the tooth-coloured resin, obscuring any persistent stains from view and instantly uplifting your smile.

Persistent stains may occur if you have certain health conditions and have required some types of medications, or if there has been inner damage to the teeth that has caused decay in the pulp. It is always important to ensure you have any potential problems checked over and looked at before determining composite bonding is right for you.

Concealing cracks – Teeth are not invincible, and they do crack. These can be as minor as stress fractures that don’t result in losing a piece of tooth, or as severe as having the inner pulp of the tooth exposed due to dental trauma or impact.

If the inner tooth pulp is exposed due to part of the tooth falling off, composite bonding may not be the best recommended treatment. Even if you have lost just a small fraction of the tooth, this can make such a big difference to your appearance. Luckily, composite bonding can fix this in just one sitting. This is one of the reasons composite bonding is so popular in emergency cosmetic dental situations.

Change tooth shape – If your teeth are uneven and you’d like them to look more uniform in size or shape, composite bonding can help. This can be an ideal treatment for patients who find they have certain teeth that have worn down over time, or if you had teeth with variations in shape to begin with.

For more complex or widespread concerns linking to misalignment, you may want to consider realignment treatment options such as Invisalign. On an aesthetic basis, however, composite bonding can work wonders in quickly transforming uneven or irregular teeth!

We always examine patients thoroughly and do our best before recommending a variety of cosmetic and dental procedures. We do this because we want everyone to leave our practice feeling (and looking) like they received the best possible care that will last for years to come.

If we advise that composite bonding won’t work for you, don’t be disheartened! There are plenty of other equally as effective cosmetic dental solutions that may better suit your needs, such as composite veneers. The best way to find out if composite bonding would treat your concerns is to come and visit us with an appointment.

Composite Bonding at Ringway Dental

At Ringway Dental, we specialise in cosmetic dental treatments and procedures. We offer a range of cosmetic dentistry services, and we take pride in our abilities to transform the smiles of those living in the Greater Manchester area.

If you’re interested in upgrading your smile and would like to get in touch, please call our team on 0161 437 2029.

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