Enjoy the before and after! Patient could tell something didn’t feel right, it hurt initially, and a small piece broke off, but, then, the pain temporarily subsided. There was meaningful decay into the dentin in the area where the chipping occured. We removed the old amalgam, the caries (decay), and restored with a composite. Recurrent decay
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In this case, we have a classic example of a leaking sealant. The interface between filling and sealant at the occluso-lingual groove of #3 has broken apart and been seeping with each day getting into the dentin beneath the filling and the tooth. The interface between the sealant and the filling breaks and starts leaking.
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Patient presented with a small area of wear and chipping, and a microfracture on the incisal edge. In this case, a simple and conservative option is simply smoothing off the area with a very fine polishing disc. Because the reduction is less than 0.5mm, and the chipped tooth appears slightly longer, it makes a reductive approach
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Drink beer out of a can instead of a bottle. Click on the picture for the blown up view of today’s before and after for the chipped tooth. I heard an all-to-familiar story today. A patient was relaxing with his friends and was enjoying a beer. But, he made the fateful mistake of drinking it
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