Composite fillings bond directly to the tooth and are shaded to match your enamel, so the repair disappears. Bonding also means less healthy tooth has to be removed than with older silver fillings.
If you have failing amalgam fillings, we can replace them as they wear out rather than all at once.
A crown caps the whole tooth, holding it together and taking the force of your bite. It is the usual answer for a cracked tooth, a tooth with very little structure left after a large filling, or a tooth that has had a root canal.
Modern porcelain crowns are shaded and shaped to the neighbouring teeth, and Dr. Boling plans each one around how your bite actually works, so the restoration lasts rather than failing early.
A fixed replacement that spans the gap left by a missing tooth, anchored to crowns on the teeth either side. Nothing comes out at night, and you chew on it normally.
Replacing a missing tooth matters beyond appearance: the teeth around a gap drift into it over time, and the opposing tooth drops down, which changes your bite and makes later treatment harder.
Full dentures replace a complete arch; partial dentures fill in several missing teeth while clasping onto the ones you still have. Both are fitted over a series of appointments so the shape, bite and colour are right before anything is finalised.
Fit is everything with dentures, and it changes as the jaw remodels over the years. We would far rather adjust or reline yours than have you living with something that rubs or slips.
When decay or a crack reaches the nerve inside a tooth, the pulp becomes infected — which is what causes that deep, throbbing, keeps-you-awake pain. A root canal removes the infected tissue, disinfects the canal and seals it, saving a tooth that would otherwise have to come out.
The procedure has a reputation it has not deserved for years. With modern anaesthetic it is typically no more uncomfortable than having a filling, and it relieves the pain you arrived with.
For patients facing widespread problems at once — years of wear from grinding, multiple failing restorations, several missing teeth, a collapsed bite — treating one tooth at a time does not work. The whole mouth has to be planned together.
A rehabilitation combines crowns, bridges, dentures and sometimes clear aligners into a single sequenced plan that rebuilds function and appearance. It is a significant undertaking, and it starts with a long conversation, full records and a written plan you can take away and think about.
Come in and find out. Dr. Boling will explain what is going on and what the realistic options are — including doing nothing for now, when that is reasonable.
