Restorative Dentistry
What is restorative dentistry?
Restorative dentistry procedures restore your smile by repairing or replacing damaged or diseased teeth. Common restorative dentistry services include:
Fillings: Your Greenville, NC dentist removes decayed areas of your teeth and replaces them with durable fillings. Fillings are typically made of silver amalgam, composite resin, porcelain or gold.
Root canals: If tooth decay is severe, the pulp at the center of your tooth can become inflamed or infected. During a root canal, your dentist removes the pulp, cleans your root canals, adds tiny posts for stability and places a special filling material in the tooth.
Crowns: Crowns completely cover a tooth and are used if a tooth is weakened by a crack, fracture, large filling or root canal treatment. They're also used to cover chips and discolorations. Crowns can be made from a variety of materials, including porcelain, porcelain-fused-to-metal, ceramic, resin, gold or nickel.
Bridges: Bridges consist of two crowns that anchor one or more false teeth in the middle. They're used to replace missing teeth and are usually made from porcelain or porcelain-fused-to-metal.
Veneers: Veneers are a good choice if you want to cover teeth that are chipped, too short, oddly shaped or discolored, or if you have slight gaps between your teeth. These thin pieces of porcelain are cemented to the fronts of your teeth.
Dentures: Dentures offer a good way to improve your ability to bite and chew if you've lost many teeth. They're available in full, partial or dental implant-supported versions.
Dental implants: When you want a more permanent solution to tooth loss than bridges or dentures can offer, dental implants are a good solution. A tiny titanium implant replaces your tooth roots, while the crown that rests on top of the implant gives you the ability to bite and chew normally. They're a good choice whether you've lost one tooth or all of them.