If you have chipped off just a small piece of tooth enamel, your dentist may repair the damage with a filling. If the repair is to a front tooth or can be seen when you smile, your dentist will likely use a procedure called bonding, which uses a tooth-colored composite resin. Bonding is a simple…
What is a dental crown?Also called caps, dental crowns are tooth-shaped covers dentist place over a damaged or decayed tooth. Crowns can help when a filling can’t strengthen or fill enough of your tooth to make it viable. When used to cover misshapen or badly discolored teeth, dental crowns also help improve your appearance. Crowns…
What is Root Canal Treatment? Root canal treatment involves the saving of a tooth that is decayed and otherwise would die and have to be removed.In order to save the tooth, the pulp (the living tissue inside the tooth), nerves, bacteria, and decayed material are removed, and the resulting space is filled with special medicated…
