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Don’t put it off!

admin — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:29:13 +0000

This lady knew that she needed some fillings but had been busy with life work, etc and didn’t get around to having the treatment (despite our advice!) for a year or so. She was rather horrified when we showed her this picture of what was found when we started removing the decay in her three back molar teeth. Fortunately we were able to painlessly place these great looking direct adhesive composite fillings and she’s good as new!

We prefer to use these white filling materials to dental amalgam as these materials bond to the tooth structure allowing us to keep the filling as small as possible and we believe that it will reduce the chance of chips and cracks in the teeth.

The moral of the story however! Get the treatment done as soon as you can. It will mean smaller fillings, less time in the chair, less chance of toothache and less of a dent in your wallet! And make sure you cut down on that sugar intake and keep up with the fluoride toothpaste and mouthwash afterwards.

If you know you need some treatment and you’d like your teeth back to ‘good as new’, please give us a call!

before

during

after!!

State of the Art CEREC tooth coloured restorations in Sidcup Kent

admin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:14:07 +0000

At Dental Elegance we provide the best up to date cad/cam generated restorations for your teeth.

We no longer provide silver metal fillings or crowns but instead use high quality ceramic blocks that are milled from computer designed images to produce beautiful, strong, bonded fillings, onlays and crowns. These have been shown by research studies to last longer than most other restorations.

Why CEREC?

-protects and preserves your own tooths structural integrity

-Ceramics are bicompatable

-only one appointment

-no impressions or temporaries

-Perfect looks, comfort and quality

-long lasting and durable

-unquestionably the most cost effective restoration we have available today.

Contact us for examination of your mouth and the possibilities of changing your old failing metal unsightly restorations.

White fillings

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:26:36 +0000

A patient attended our Practice from Sevenoaks in Kent, she had an old, leaking, fractured amalgam filling on her premolar tooth. We repaired this with a composite resin white filling which is bonded to the healthy remaining tooth structure. The … Continue reading →

porcelain onlays

admin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:33:10 +0000

Here at Dental Elegance we offer our patients the option of having porcelain onlays

old amalgam filling and worn white filling

new beautiful porcelain onlays

Porcelain onlay are much stronger than white fillings and they can be used in many cases instead of crowns. The colour of the onlay can match your tooth exactly .Lots of our patients are asking us to remove their mercury amalgam fillings and replace them with white porcelain onlays. Here is a photo of a lady from Sevenoaks who was very pleased with her new teeth (she had three onlays).