
Dental Bonding: What It Can Fix
Composite bonding can repair small chips, close minor gaps and improve tooth shape; composite laminates showed 88% survival over 24 to 97 months.
Clinical experience, misunderstood concepts and frequently asked questions. Notes from many years of practice.

Composite bonding can repair small chips, close minor gaps and improve tooth shape; composite laminates showed 88% survival over 24 to 97 months.

A review of 16 randomised trials found no difference in postoperative sensitivity between layered and bulk-fill composite. Eat once the numbness wears off; the bigger variable is smoking and what it does to colour.

In a Cochrane review of 22 trials, fluoride varnish cut caries increment by 43 percent in permanent teeth. Here is what causes decay and what stops it.

Traumatic dental injuries affect 15.2% of people in the permanent dentition worldwide, so a broken tooth is common rather than rare. Treated early the outlook is good: a systematic review of pulpotomy for complicated crown fractures reported success between 75% and 96%. What to do in the first hour.