Bonding
Cosmetic bonding utilizes composite resin technology to adhere to the tooth surface, facilitating contour, shade and orientation changes in one appointment.
Bonding #1--Before. Undersized teeth, midline gap and uneven arch contour.
Bonding #1--After. I used cosmetic bonding to increase the size of the lateral teeth and to close the midline gap between the central teeth. By increasing the thickness of the lateral teeth as well, it improved the arch contour. In the end, we re-introduced a smaller midline gap because the patient saw it as being truer to how she saw herself, and that was easy to do with the bonding.
Bonding #2--Before. Gappy smile due to narrow central and lateral incisors.
Bonding #2--After. Bonding was used to add to the length and width of all four incisors for a more even smile.
Bonding #3--Before. This patient had just finished orthodontic treatment but due to a mismatch in jaw size to tooth widths, there were residual gaps that needed to be filled. She also had chipped edges and disharmonious tooth lengths.
Bonding #3--After. Cosmetic bonding was used to fill all the gaps, to harmonize the lengths, and ultimately to make her smile more esthetically appealing. With the teeth now touching, there is much more lateral stability.
Bonding #4--Before. This is one of my FAVOURITE cases of all time, as it combines Invisalign, Porcelain Crowns and Cosmetic Bonding to restore this patient's smile. This patient only had tooth-to-tooth contact on three of his front teeth for fifty plus years because his front teeth were tilted inward and prevented contact on his back teeth. The severe wear was evident on those three pairs of upper and lower front teeth. It did not take much convincing on my part that his bite could be improved drastically to allow use of all of his teeth for the rest of his life. This photo shows the results at the end of his Invisalign treatment. See the corresponding CROWN post to see the before and after photos on his upper teeth!
Bonding #4--After. We whitened the teeth first, and then used cosmetic bonding to repair the chipped edges and to resurface two of the lower incisors. This also set the reference points for the upper crowns which we did immediately after. See the corresponding CROWN post to see the before and after photos on his upper teeth!