Tooth-Coloured Restorations: A modern day technique

‘It is said that there’s nothing attractive than a beautiful smile.’
Your smile doesn’t look beautiful if you have an imperfect teeth setting due to damaged or decayed tooth. Damage or decay in tooth can be repaired and restored by a dentist to bring back that natural and beautiful look. A number of techniques are implemented to ensure health and stability in mouth. Tooth coloured restoration is believed to be an effective technique to help the cosmetic improvements of smile. The colour of the restorative material that are used in restoring teeth plays an important role in making them look natural or artificial. The process of tooth restoration is done by changing the colour of the teeth or reshaping a broken or disfigured teeth.
Modern day techniques
Amalgam restoration, a mixture of metals with mercury were used in the past to repair tooth decay. Though strong, this type of restoration was not popular because of silver coloured texture. With advancement of technology, today dentists use modern techniques to restore the shape, colour and size of tooth, close gaps, repair chips thereby ensuring a natural looking beautiful teeth setting with a beautiful smile. The composite filling is a modern technique used today where a tooth-coloured plastic and glass mixture is used that restores the decayed tooth giving it a natural look and making your restored tooth beautiful and natural looking.
Advantages of tooth-coloured restorations:

• They match closely to your tooth colour and appearance giving a normal look.
• Amalgam fillings contract and expand with temperature differences causing tooth cracks over time, while composite filling is not only long-lasting but also protects your tooth.
• No allergies or tooth sensitivity.
• The restorations are strongly bonded directly to tooth surfaces, thus fortifying tooth structure and preventing tooth decay and cavities.
• Tooth-coloured restorations provide better resistance to wear and tear of teeth than the silver restorations which were performed in the past.
• The composite material dries up and hardens in quick time as compared to other old methods of filling.
• The modern day tooth-coloured fillings, if by any means get damaged or are chipped off can easily be repaired.
• The modern day composite restorations do not require placement at the gum and are indirect tooth-coloured restorations, and as such are healthier for your gums.
•  The composite bond gives support to the remaining tooth structure that helps prevent breakage.

At Howick Dental Surgery in Auckland, we have renowned and experienced dentists and dental surgeons who give complete tooth-coloured restorations using modern and latest techniques ensuring a healthy and beautiful teeth.