{"id":120,"date":"2010-08-11T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/dental-advice\/kinder-than-porcelain-veneers-faster-than-orthodontics\/"},"modified":"2019-06-14T11:46:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T10:46:32","slug":"kinder-than-porcelain-veneers-faster-than-orthodontics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/kinder-than-porcelain-veneers-faster-than-orthodontics\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinder Than Porcelain Veneers, Faster Than Orthodontics?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a new\u00a0idea catching hold in main stream\u00a0cosmetic\u00a0dentistry and to be honest, it is a change that\u00a0is long overdue.\u00a0In my\u00a0 career to date as\u00a0a \u00a0preventive dentist\u00a0and a cosmetic dentist\u00a0I regularly have had to balance my patients desire for a lovely smile versus my own personal view that we should always treat healthy tooth tissue as precious. For more than 15 years the team at Craigentinny\u00a0have taken the view that that\u00a0we should\u00a0avoid \u00a0drilling away tooth \u00a0if at all possible. As a result \u00a0I have on many occasions declined to carry out treatment that patients have requested when it \u00a0would involve grinding away significant quantities of\u00a0\u00a0a\u00a0 tooth and\u00a0lead to what I believe\u00a0is \u00a0long term damage\u00a0or complications.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>You see, \u00a0when a tooth is prepared for a crown\u00a0\u00a0there is a 5 – 15% chance that the nerve in that tooth will die at some point in future. And if the nerve dies then a root treatment becomes necessary. So when an alternative exists that is kinder\u00a0to the\u00a0 tooth \u00a0its seems to me a no brainer that we should look seriously at this option. As a result in the last 10 years I have carried out a lot of resin bonding rather than place veneers or occasionally crowns for my patients.\u00a0Resin Bonding (Composite Bonding)\u00a0\u00a0usually requires little or no removal of the underlying healthy tooth and as such is completely reversible. Indeed resin bonding is so conservative that very often we are able to complete it with no need for injections or anaesthetics. A real winner for my more nervous patients.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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As a treatment Resin Bonding (Composite Bonding) or Composite veneers as they can be known, matches crowns or\u00a0porcelan veneers for speed as they can usually be completed in one or two visits.\u00a0Resin bonding does not suit everyone.\u00a0It is a bit more prone to gathering stain so smokers probably should consider alternatives,\u00a0that said\u00a0in normal use any minor staining\u00a0is easily polished away.\u00a0This simple before\u00a0 and after series\u00a0 from a few years ago shows just what can be achieved. The cost was significantly less than using poreclain veneers to achieve a similar result and my patient was delighted. \u00a0Better still\u00a0the natural\u00a0teeth were completely untouched.\u00a0Today we\u00a0 may well treat this lady\u00a0differently as we have\u00a0fast\u00a0orthodontics available with\u00a0 the\u00a0\u00a0Inman Aligner<\/a>\u00a0 or 6 Month Smiles<\/a> however as the resin bonding can be stripped off back to the natural tooth at any time this patient\u00a0 still has these options available to her. If we had chosen to place 6 veneers that flexibility would have been lost. Don’t get me wrong veneers and crowns are still a great option for the right patient, and I still provide a lot of these treatments \u00a0but\u00a0 if you do nothing else before having some cosmetic dentistry carried out, please do make sure that\u00a0you consider all of your options, their advantages and disadvantages before starting.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
What do you think is the best way to enhance a smile?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a new\u00a0idea catching hold in main stream\u00a0cosmetic\u00a0dentistry and to be honest, it is a change that\u00a0is long overdue.\u00a0In my\u00a0 career to date as\u00a0a \u00a0preventive dentist\u00a0and a cosmetic dentist\u00a0I regularly have had to balance my patients desire for a lovely smile versus my own personal view that we should always treat healthy tooth tissue … Continue reading Kinder Than Porcelain Veneers, Faster Than Orthodontics?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}