If you’re looking to have straighter teeth, you don’t necessarily have to opt for braces. It’s true that braces and removable clear aligners are the popular choice for teeth straightening, but did you know that with composite bonding, it’s also possible to address orthodontic-related issues, such as gaps in your smile.
If you haven’t heard of using composite bonding for this purpose , we recommend reading on, particularly if you’re after a straighter smile without gaps, but braces aren’t for you.
Composite bonding is a technique that uses custom-moulded pieces of composite, tooth-coloured resin to enhance an individual’s teeth.
Composite is most well-known for fixing a variety of problems, but not many people are aware that it can actually be applied to teeth straightening. Generally, it’s most used for improving the shape of individual teeth, as well as for improving tooth shade, cracks and chips.
This is a good question, especially since composite bonding doesn’t exert any force on your teeth or jaw. With composite bonding, you also:
Your dentist can use small pieces of dental composite to fill the small gaps in your teeth, giving the illusion that your teeth have moved into better alignment, yet no movement of the teeth will have occurred.
We’ve had hundreds of website enquiries, with patients from all over London searching for “Composite bonding Uxbridge”. We have seen a significant surge in patients looking to fill small gaps in their teeth to produce a symmetrical and uniform-looking smile.
There is a “but” though.
If you’re looking to make significant structural changes to your teeth, this won’t be possible without braces or Invisalign.
Composite bonding doesn’t employ the mechanics of a brace, it simply fills the gaps with carefully placed composite.
You will need an orthodontic appliance to correct malocclusions (the clinical term for bite problems including:
Whilst it is possible to correct minor gaps with braces, composite bonding is favourable for people who don’t want to wait months or weeks to have a gap-free smile. This said, the results of composite bonding aren’t permanent. Dental composite can become stained in as little as 3 years, depending on your diet. Dental composite is also prone to chipping, particularly after 6 or 7+ years, though this is subject to your eating habits and lifestyle habits.
The combination of composite bonding and braces is a match made in heaven for people who want to both straighten their teeth and reshape their teeth. This combination is also much more preservative than getting veneers to cover up imperfectly positioned and shaped teeth.
Many of our patients also opt for teeth whitening treatment to top off the Invisalign and composite bonding combination. Our at-home whitening system is the most popular in the UK – Boutique whitening.
As dental composite is resistant to teeth whitening gels, you’ll need to have this completed after your tooth has been bonded. We highly recommend this treatment combination if you’re seeking a complete smile makeover, and our dentists will focus on smile enhancement, rather than smile alteration – we don’t believe in producing a ‘fake’ looking result that makes no sense in the context of your face shape and dentation.
Using braces or Invisalign, we can first get your teeth into a healthy-looking alignment. Once your teeth are straight, we can move on to using composite bonding to resolve any small gaps left after the teeth straightening phase of treatment is complete.
The dental composite is placed onto individual teeth requiring treatment, and shaped in a way that creates the natural-looking curves and edges that are characteristic of healthy-looking teeth.
Once the dental composite has been set in place and polished, you will be left with a set of teeth that aesthetically correspond with one another, and which correspond with your mouth shape and gum line.
Aside from looking up “composite bonding Uxbridge” or considering brace-based straightening treatment, you can choose to realign your teeth with a custom-designed fabricated row of custom composite veneers.
The SmileFast system involves the application of multiple composite veneers, which once placed, alter the structure of your top front teeth. This is an ideal solution for people who want to treat multiple teeth, rather than one or two using traditional composite bonding.
You can read more about SmileFast for teeth straightening at Denpure here.
At Denpure, we are fortunate enough to have our very own ‘Composite Queen’ Dr Roshani Dali (as we like to call her!)
Dr Roshani does a remarkable job of beautifying the smiles of her countless patients, and you can see how much patients love her work by watching our testimonial videos here.
Come in and speak to one of our dentists about composite bonding. There is absolutely no obligation to go ahead with treatment – you can simply treat this as an appointment to find out more, and to see if it’s the right option for you.
If you want to learn more about braces, we can also talk to you about the difference between fixed and removable appliances. You may be surprised by options such as Invisalign, which are lifestyle-friendly, and can be used for minor straightening, as well as complex alignment problems.
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