Amalgam fillings have been around for over a 100 years and have helped form the foundation that modern dentistry is built on. They show amazing longevity as a restoration and are quick and cheap to provide. Unfortunately it is an inflexible material that offers no internal strength to the tooth being restored. Because they do not flex like a tooth under chewing pressure they tend to transmit all … [Read more...]

Readers of this site will know that I am a great champion of techniques that involve the absolute minimum of tooth tissue reduction when we are restoring smiles. This is why I am a great fan of "Bleach and Bond" as it combines whitening and direct filling techniques that can offer huge improvements to a smile with almost no removal of sound tissue. The results can be exceptional and whilst will … [Read more...]

This series of photos shows, in a little more detail, how we can fix a broken tooth and repair some damaged teeth using a combination of direct white fillings and cast porcelain crowns. The patient was referred to StoneRock with a request that we fix the very broken tooth in the upper jaw and restore the lower front teeth that had had conventional porcelain veneers that had all come off. Of … [Read more...]

This short series of photos shows just how deceptive an initial cavity can appear. This patient had noticed some sensitivity from around an old filling and was developing a bad taste from it. Once the old filling was removed we were able to see the extent of the damage underneath. Fortunately modern techniques allow us to restore a tooth like this with fibre reinforced direct white fillings which … [Read more...]