If a tooth is broken, there are three ways to repair it

People who love gourmet food absolutely cannot bear to see their teeth break, and teeth play a very important role for each of us. However, broken teeth may occur due to various reasons, so tooth repair technology is particularly important. There are three main ways to repair broken teeth: resin restoration, all-ceramic restoration and porcelain restoration, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

1. Resin repair

It refers to the use of composite resin materials to repair tooth tissue defects caused by caries, wedge-shaped defects, trauma, etc. to restore their appearance and function. The filled tooth looks like a real one. Resin filling materials can be used for front and back teeth and are called tooth-colored materials.

①Advantages

A:Minimally invasive. It has super strong bonding power for tooth defects without almost any tooth preparation. And it conforms to the minimally invasive concept of modern stomatology. When making veneers and tooth defects, only 1/2 of the amount of all-ceramic veneers is required.

B. Realistic. Because of its layered solidification, it has the reflection and refraction of light like natural teeth, making the restoration difficult to distinguish between real and fake and almost impossible to detect with the naked eye. Suitable for aesthetic restoration of anterior teeth.

C. Immediately. Almost all caries filling projects and a small number of tooth defects can be treated and left at the same time.

D.High strength. The proportion of inorganic fillers in the composite resin reaches 80%, the surface-treated part has high-refractive-index nano-zirconia, and contains a new type of high-refractive-index glass filler. So it has super high strength.

②Disadvantages: Slightly more expensive than ordinary filling materials.

2. All-ceramic restoration

It is a general term for metal-free porcelain restorations. The restoration does not use metal, but a high-strength porcelain material that is close to the color of the teeth. Therefore, all-ceramic teeth are more beautiful than metal-based porcelain restorations. All-ceramic restoration makes up for the many defects of metal porcelain technology and has good dental cosmetic effects.

Advantages

The advantages of all-ceramic restoration over traditional restoration are: realistic color and shape, chewing function and stability are very close to real teeth. There will be no phenomenon of porcelain chipping, black lines, etc.

3. Porcelain restoration

The porcelain fused to metal full crown is also called the metal-porcelain combined crown, or gold-porcelain crown for short. It is a full crown restoration formed by high-temperature sintering and fusing porcelain powder to the surface of the metal inner crown.

Scope of application

For those with higher aesthetic requirements, it can be used on both front and back teeth.

Discolored teeth that are not suitable for restoration by other methods.

Patients with deformed small teeth, enamel hypoplasia, etc. who need to improve the crown shape.

Those with misaligned or twisted front teeth who are not suitable or cannot receive orthodontic treatment require improvement in appearance.

Residual roots and crowns restored with post and core after root canal treatment.

It can be used to repair single tooth defects and can also be used as a retainer for fixed dentures.

Fixed splints for orthopedic treatment of periodontal disease.