Fillings and crowns / Restoration

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If broken, worn or misaligned teeth are affecting your smile, then well designed porcelain veneers and/or crowns may be an effective way of getting the smile you have always dreamed of. Discrepancies in tooth shape and colour can often be effectively treated with porcelain veneers to the front 6 incisor teeth to transform the entire smile.

The best solution for tooth restoration will depend on your personal diagnosis. It’s always important to remember that tooth shape and colour, and smile layout, is as individual as hair colour, skin tone, and facial shape.  What suits one person may not suit another, so it is important to select a dentist that has an eye, not only for health and technical issues, but also for style and detail.

Video: What materials do you use to repair damaged teeth, and are they safe?

A restoration directly repairing damaged or decayed tooth is often called a “filling” or “direct restoration’. NewSmile Dental Centre Perth is a completely amalgam-free practice and uses only tooth-coloured metal-free restorative materials such as composite resin, glass ionomer, and ceramic (porcelain or zirconia). Traditional dental amalgam fillings have a darker colour, and have been the subject of several studies investigating the safety of their components (silver, tin, copper and most notably mercury).

Restorations of decayed, broken or damaged teeth will form part of your personalised comprehensive oral care plan. Your treatment may consist of simple small restorations (fillings), or the use of indirect dental onlays, crowns and veneers for more advanced reconstructive and cosmetic dentistry.

When planning treatment that involves the use of multiple dental crowns, veneers or fillings, your holistic oral health plan may also be called a “smile makeover”. This is because realigning, optimising, restoring or replacing teeth can have a spectacular impact on the quality of your smile.  Where relevant, we will consider:

• Facial measurements
• How your teeth look in a range of expressions
• X-rays
• Diagnostic models and if involving implants, 3D images of your jaw
• Analogue or Digital Smile Design

After we have given you a clear diagnosis, we will always present your options to you visually, ensuring that you are fully informed before making your final choice.  

Broken teeth, chipped, worn or damaged teeth need repair, but the first important step is thorough diagnosis, and treatment planning for the best way to restore your dental health in the long term. There needs to be an understanding of what caused these problems in the first place, so that they don’t recur.

We fabricate our porcelain dental crowns and veneers in leading local laboratories, which work with us in close detail, throughout your dental restoration or smile makeover process. Book your appointment today, with our team of experienced and friendly family & cosmetic dentists. They will help you find out if dental crowns or other restoration options are a good solution for you, and will show you “before and after” images of healthy, rejuvenated and attractive smiles we have achieved for patients with conditions similar to yours.

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Photo: Worn down teeth before and after

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