Veneers are a versatile means to correct many dental defects from a chipped tooth to excessive spacing between teeth or discolouration. Rest assured, your dentist in Central Leeds is able to replace veneers more than once.
Composite resin veneers typically last three to five years and may require several replacements over a patient’s lifetime. Thus, the replacement for this type of veneer is easily done. Minor issues with the veneer may even be fixed through simple repair rather than total replacement.
Replacement becomes more complicated with porcelain veneers. Porcelain veneers are designed to be more durable and are of a better quality than composite resin veneers. Porcelain veneers typically last from ten to fifteen years and with proper maintenance, should give you no problems. However, if your porcelain veneers break, they cannot be repaired with the ease of composite resin veneers and must be replaced altogether.
One replacement for porcelain veneers is done relatively easily, but, because porcelain veneers require your natural teeth to be trimmed for a custom fitting, a second or third replacement may require building up your trimmed teeth with a bonding material and trimming them again for a custom fit. This extra step is time consuming, but will in no way hinder your new porcelain veneers.
Veneers are a flexible solution to many unsightly dental issues. Speak to your dentist to learn more about this beneficial procedure.
Without prompt attention from a dental professional, severe and dangerous complications can arise from an untreated abscessed tooth. The infection of an abscessed tooth will spread if it is not drained and healed properly. Without a course of antibiotics, the dental infection can reoccur with more severity.
Your porcelain veneers are built to last. With proper maintenance, patients report no discolouration up to fifteen years. Your porcelain veneers have been specially treated with a glaze from the laboratory they were produced in. This makes your porcelain veneers extremely color-stable, ensuring that they will provide a beautiful white smile.
Can’t remember the last time you smiled without worrying if people are judging you for the bad shape your mouth is in? If you are missing more than one tooth, you will want to consider a partial denture or multiple dental implants. Multiple dental implants are more comfortable and durable than partial dentures and are more aesthetically pleasing.
Your best defense against bad breath is brushing, flossing, mouthwash, and regular visits to your dentist. Do you clean your teeth at least twice a day? Do you visit your dentist at least once a year for a check up and a clean up?
Brushing and flossing your teeth can be a daunting task when you are faced with a mouth full of metal braces. However, it is even more important that you maintain proper oral hygiene because more food particles will get stuck in your teeth from wearing braces. With traditional metal braces, you must learn to maneuver your brushing and flossing without damaging the wires.
Tooth decay in infants and toddlers is also known as Baby Bottle Tooth Decay. Also referred to as Early Childhood Caries, it frequently impacts the baby’s upper front teeth, but may also affect other teeth. In the most severe cases, the tooth decay in new teeth is so severe that they must be removed. Fortunately, Baby Bottle Tooth Decay can be prevented.
An abscessed tooth is a bacterial infection in the pulp of the tooth. Pus is enclosed at the root of a tooth or between the gum and a tooth. An abscessed tooth is painful and is more often than not caused by severe tooth decay. Other causes include chipping or breaking a tooth and gum disease.
The very idea of having a piece of metal inserted into the jaw bone sounds awfully painful and to those that don’t like going to the dentists in the first place, this must sound terrifying. When dental implants first came onto the scene, the operation could leave you looking like something out of a horror movie for months. Now however, technology has developed immensely and having this treatment has become easy, fairly pain-free and very widespread- you will find most dentists in Leeds offering you this treatment today. And the benefits of having it done are amazing, not just to the way you look and smile, but for the health of your mouth as well. When you lose a tooth, it’s important to replace it so that you can retain the structure of your face and to maintain the mouth’s occlusion (bite). It’s also important to prevent further things from going wrong after tooth loss- movement to the other teeth, infection and gum disease. Having an implant will last you for life and be the perfect foundation with which to house the new tooth. It can also help to retain other fittings in the mouth such as bridges and crowns. But for those that wear dentures, the dental implant has proved to be heavenly. Four or five in the mouth will enable the dentures to lock solidly and give extra freedom to the wearer who will be safe in the knowledge that they are not going to fall out.
