Clinical experience, misunderstood concepts and frequently asked questions. Notes from many years of practice.
Smoking after a root canal is not governed by the same rules as smoking after a tooth extraction. There is no blood clot in the treated tooth socket to protect, but smoking may affect healing around the root tip over the following months. Learn when smoking is most concerning, what the evidence shows, and how to protect your treatment result.
Root canal treatment and dental implants are not competing treatments: one preserves an existing tooth, the other replaces a tooth that cannot be saved.
A failed root canal is not an automatic extraction. Retreatment has a 76.7% pooled healing rate; microsurgery is next, extraction only for unrestorable teeth.
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.
Clear aligners are custom-made removable trays, worn 20 to 22 hours a day, that move teeth in small stages; at Mosdent treatment takes 6 to 24 months.
Invisalign is a clear-aligner brand of Align Technology. At Mosdent, treatment starts with a digital scan and ClinCheck plan and takes 6 to 24 months.
No study shows Invisalign (Align Technology), Orthero (Istanbul) or ClearCorrect (Straumann) to be clinically superior; their aligner materials differ.
A zirconia crown is a metal-free crown milled from zirconium dioxide; five-year survival as a single crown was 96.8% in a 64-study meta-analysis.
