Having a damaged tooth can be painful and affect confidence if it’s noticeable when you smile. Fillings and crowns rebuild teeth to their former glory, treating pain and returning functionality. Bridges and dental implants can be used to fill in a gap left by a missing tooth or replace a problem tooth.

Fillings Crowns Bridges Dental implants

Treating cavities and dental decay with fillings

The most common reason to have a filling is to restore a tooth following a cavity. Fillings can be made from different materials such as a tooth-coloured composite, inlays, onlays, glass ionomer and amalgam.

Composite fillings

Made from tooth-coloured composite, white fillings are a cosmetic and tooth-friendly option. Built directly on the tooth, composite fillings are shaped to look exactly like a natural tooth.

Benefits

 
  • They blend in beautifully with your natural teeth
  • Modern materials make them a durable choice
  • Only the affected part needs to be removed before placement of the filling
  • They can restore decayed, chipped, worn or broken teeth

Restore your smile with a crown

Crowns can cover up and replace teeth that need extensive repair. They fit like a cap over the tooth, which needs to be treated to accommodate the restoration.

Types of crown
  • Zirconia
  • Emax
  • Porcelain
  • Gold crowns
Benefits
  • Enhances the appearance of a tooth
  • Can protect and strengthen the tooth
  • Natural-looking
  • Fixed in place
  • Durable
  • Confidence boosting

Replacing missing teeth with bridges

If you feel embarrassed about gaps in your smile, a natural-looking dental bridge can successfully fill in those unsightly spaces and help restore your confidence. A longer-lasting alternative to dentures, dental bridges are an effective way to replace one or more missing teeth.

Types of bridge
  • Porcelain bridge
  • Cantilever bridge
  • Implant-retained bridge
  • Maryland bonded bridge
Benefits
  • Improving how you eat and speak.
  • Enhancing facial contours.
  • Distributing the forces in your bite correctly.
  • Preventing remaining teeth from moving out of position.

Restoring your smile with dental implants

Dental implants are the next best thing to natural teeth. Consisting of an artificial tooth root which is placed into the jaw, implants can be used to replace a single tooth or multiple teeth. Implants are made from titanium which has a special property in how it biologically fuses to the bone. This means implants are incredibly long-lasting and will be a good replacement solution for the long term.

Benefits
  • Secure and reliable
  • Provide essential support to the jaw bone
  • Support natural-looking replacement teeth

We have a specialist implant surgeon at West End Dental who can complete simple and complex implant treatment.

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West End Dental, 189 Great Western Road, Aberdeen, AB10 6PS.

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