All You Need To Know About Tooth Bonding

When it comes to relationship, having an attractive and cute smile on face remains inevitable. But what if you have lost your tooth’s beauty? How would or what would make you smile pretty attractively? The answer is Tooth bonding. It is that procedure in which a tooth-coloured resin material is applied and hardened using a kind of special light. Under this process, the teeth gets bonded with the material. This process helps one to restore and improve smile.

Dental Bonding remains a better option under the following conditions.

1. To Repair Decayed Teeth: When you suffer from a decayed teeth. You can repair teeth by using composite resins as fillers.
2. You can also depend on this procedure to repair chipped or cracked teeth.
3. You can improve the colour of one’s discoloured teeth.
4. Dental Bonding is helpful to close spaces between teeth.
5. It is useful for making teeth longer and refined shape.
6. It is a cosmetic alternative to amalgam fillings.
7. It is also useful to protect tooth's root-portion which is exposed when gums recede.

Steps of Dental Bonding

1. Without having at least a little preparation in advance is a necessary requirement for dental bonding. Anaesthesia is not always necessary. But for certain bonding likefilling a decayed tooth, Anaesthesia is applied.
2. The dentist chooses a resin that most suits your teeth colour.
3. As the next step, tooth’s surface is roughened and the dentist applies a conditioning liquid over it. This process helps the bonding material get fixed on tooth.
4. Then as the fourth step, tooth-coloured, putty-like resin is applied after moulding and smoothing to the required shape.
5. The material is hardened using either an ultraviolet light or a laser. Once the material gets hardened, the dentist goes for trimming and shaping it; making it a perfect fit to your tooth.

How much time it takes:
Dental bonding is a process that takes around half an hour to over an hour, depending on the correction to be done.

Advantages and Disadvantages:
Dental Bonding has both advantages and disadvantages. It is one of the least expensive cosmetic dental procedures. It gets over in an hour or around this time. Under this procedure only less amount of tooth enamel is removed. Apart from all these, this is so easy procedure that it does not even require anaesthesia. Bonding material does not last long and this is its advantage. The material is also not free from stains.