Dental Implants

Dental implants are titanium screw-like posts that are surgically placed into the jawbone underneath your gums. Once in place, they allow your Kellyville Ridge dentist to mount replacement teeth onto them.

Because implants fuse to your bone, they become sturdy support for replacement teeth. Dentures and bridges attached to implants won’t move in your mouth. This fit helps the dentures and bridges — as well as crowns installed over implants — feel more natural than regular bridges or dentures.

For some, regular bridges and dentures are simply uncomfortable or even possible, due to sore spots, poor ridges or gagging. Also, regular bridges must be attached to teeth on both sides of the space left by the missing teeth.

An advantage of dental implants is that no nearby teeth need to be prepared or reduced to hold your new replacement tooth/teeth in place.

Dental Crowns and Bridges

A crown is full coverage for a tooth. It is used when your tooth is discoloured, cracked or broken, heavily filled, or if normal fillings will not be enough in terms of the structural integrity of the tooth. There are many different types of dental crowns available at Dental Cube Kellyville Ridge. We will recommend only the best option for you!

Alternatively, a dental bridge is a ceramic structure, spanning the gap left by a missing or extracted tooth, for better appearance and for functionality when chewing and speaking. It also prevents adjacent teeth from shifting into the extraction site, which can adversely impact jawbone density and facial appearance.

At Dental Cube Kellyville Ridge, our dentists use their expertise and modern technology to match the new crown to the shape and colour of your existing teeth. Contact us today to find out more.

Inlays/Onlays

We can use composite resin fillings to repair small or medium-sized cavities, but this material is not strong enough for larger areas of decay, particularly in your back teeth. If you do have quite a large cavity in a back tooth, then we will suggest repairing it with an inlay or onlay.

These restorations are made from porcelain and look very natural, nearly invisibly repairing your tooth. Although slightly more expensive than a conventional filling, porcelain inlays and onlays are longer lasting and are very strong and hard-wearing.

Each restoration is custom-made in a laboratory to exactly fit the cavity, sealing out bacteria and food, protecting the tooth and restoring its strength.

An inlay can repair the large chewing surface of a back tooth. An onlay is slightly larger as it will repair this central area and one or more of the cusps or raised points of a back tooth.

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