How To Care For My Bonded Tooth?
In December 2006, in a sports accident I had my front tooth broken in half horizontally.- next day it was thankfully bonded back on. – you can obviously see the difference through the colour I was wondering how I should care for the tooth. When I look closely now I can see the line where The crack goes across. (-dont know if that was visible before, like if the bonding covered it or not since I didnt really check). I’ve had a custom mouthguard made for me for sports which I use during every sport now. I dont bite into ANYTHING with my front teeth (no sandwhiches, etc) I only eat foods I can cut and places directly past the tooth. I have been using a powered crest spinbrush toothbrush with an extra soft head and Colgate Total and Crest Pro-Health. How should i be caring for and maybe help the tooth heal itself? I’ve really been considering this and am probably getting it tomorrow… Colgate Luminous toothpaste. It is supposed to contain minerals to help restore tooth enamal! Opinions?
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Sorry to tell you, but a tooth cannot heal itself once it is broken. I broke my front tooth when I was 6. Unfortunetely I had to get a rootcanal, and then the broken part was ‘bonded’ back on. What they did to it, and most probably to yours, was put white filling called composite to replace the broken part. Unfortunetely, composite is hard to match to the tooths natural enamel color. It will always look slightly different. Another bad thing about composite is that with time it darkens, and cannot be bleached. You’ll have to get the composite changed every few years to match with your other teeth or it will become very visible.
It’s true that you have to be careful with it now. The tooth is now weakened and could break off if you eat a baguette, or bite into an apple…Your best bet would be to get a veneer. IThe best way I can describe it is that it’s like a fake nail for your tooth. The dentist will prepare the tooth (pretty much shave off the front .5mm) and take an impression to later fit the veneer. It puts the strenth back; sort of. It will look much better and match better because it’s made out of porceline. It will be shinny like your other teeth too. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but if you dry your broken tooth, it isn’t shinny like the others but mat.
Down side to a veneer: It doesn’t bleach either, so you have to take good care of the other teeth. You’ll get the opposite effect here. One white tooth, and the others darker. The only other thing is that it could un-cement, but can be put back on. Just be careful with it, and avoid it if you can, but don’t stress if you forget and eat a sandwich.