Having a routine dental examination discover that you need to have a tooth filled can lead to a sinking sense of dread. First, you are going to have to subject yourself to the mercy of the dentist drill. Then your smile and oral appearance are then going to be changed forever by unsightly amalgam. The good news, however, is that it doesn’t have to be this way.
At Sloan Dental, we know how upsetting getting a filling can be for many of our patients, especially when fillings are required in visually noticeable areas of the mouth. This is why our dentists are proud to be able to offer cosmetic fillings designed to match our patients existing enamel colour.
As well as being much less visually noticeable, cosmetic fillings will usually require less drilling when it comes to filling a tooth in the first place. Even better, cosmetic fillings will often last longer than more traditional amalgam fillings. However, the benefits don’t stop there.
A: What many people don’t realize is that over the counter teeth whitening solutions can cause significant and lasting oral health problems for people who:
A: At Sloan Dental, we take our patient’s teeth whitening concerns seriously, whilst also providing much safer and ultimately much more reliable teeth whitening solutions.
After an initial appointment and thorough dental examination, we provide our patients with an at-home teeth whitening kit which consists of a fitted tray and gel solution which patients apply to their teeth for 3-hours a day, 10-14 days a week. Even better, in order to show our patients that our solution is working, we include different coloured strips so that patients can measure the change in the shade of their tooth enamel after every application.