Restorative Dentistry
Looking For Restorative Dentistry in Scarborough, Ontario?
A cracked molar, a filling that fell out over the weekend, a gap where a tooth used to be — these are the problems restorative dentistry exists to solve. The work is about function first: rebuilding what is damaged, replacing what is gone, and getting your bite back to doing its job.
Our restorative options include tooth-coloured fillings, crowns, bridges, dentures and dental implants. Which one suits you comes down to the tooth itself — how much of it is still there, where it sits in your mouth, and how much work you need it to do.
What Is Restorative Dentistry
Restorative dentistry is the side of dental care concerned with repair and replacement. Where preventive care keeps healthy teeth healthy, restorative work deals with teeth that have already been damaged — by decay, injury, grinding, or simply by being lost. Appearance almost always improves along the way, but the reason for the treatment is function.
The treatments we use:
No two damaged teeth are alike, so the recommendation comes after an exam and an X-ray, never before.
When Might You Consider Restorative Dentistry?
Restorative work is rarely something people plan for. Most book because something already hurts, broke, or came loose — and a few because a routine checkup turned up decay they had not felt yet.
What usually brings patients in:
Cavities and Tooth Decay
Decay does not heal on its own. Once it has broken through the enamel it keeps going, so the damaged tissue is cleared away and the tooth is rebuilt — a filling if it was caught early, a crown if it was not.
Cracked, Chipped, or Worn Teeth
Night grinding, an uneven bite, and plain everyday use all take their toll. Where enough healthy tooth survives, a filling may be all it takes; where it does not, a crown holds the tooth together and takes the pressure off the weak spots.
Missing Teeth
A gap is not only a cosmetic matter. The teeth on either side drift toward the space, the tooth above or below it drops down to meet nothing, and the bone that used to hold the root begins to recede. Bridges, dentures and implants each close the gap in a different way.
Old or Failing Dental Work
Nothing placed in a mouth lasts forever. Margins wear, old fillings shrink away from the tooth, and bacteria find the gap. Replacing tired work on schedule is far less involved than treating the decay that sets in underneath it.
Difficulty Chewing or Speaking
Chewing on one side out of habit, steering clear of certain foods, a sore spot under a denture, a whistle on your S sounds — none of these are things you have to put up with, and each one points at something fixable.
Types of Restorative Dentistry Treatments
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Tooth-Coloured Fillings
A filling rebuilds a tooth once decay has been cleaned out of it. The composite material is shaded to your own enamel and bonds directly to what remains, so the repair is hard to spot and none of the healthy tooth has to be trimmed away to make room for it. Most fillings are done in one appointment.
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Dental Crowns
A crown is a cap made to fit over whatever is left of a tooth, taking over its outer surface completely. It is what we turn to when a filling would have nothing solid to hold on to — after a root canal, a deep fracture, or decay that has eaten through most of the tooth. The crown carries the bite so the remaining structure does not have to.
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Dental Bridges
A bridge spans a gap by resting on the teeth at either end of it. The replacement tooth is fixed in place, so it is cleaned and used exactly like the rest of your teeth and never comes out. Because it is anchored to the neighbouring teeth, it also stops them tipping into the space.
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Dentures
Dentures come out for cleaning and go back in. A complete denture stands in for a whole upper or lower arch; a partial fills several gaps and clips around the natural teeth you still have. Both give you back a working bite and support the lips and cheeks, which lose their shape when the teeth behind them are gone.
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Dental Implants
An implant starts below the gum line. A titanium post is placed into the jaw and left to fuse with the bone, and once it has, it carries a crown, a bridge, or a denture on top. Nothing is attached to the teeth on either side and the post keeps the bone around it in use, which is why implants feel closest to the tooth they replace. The trade-off is time — treatment runs across several appointments over a number of months.
Is Restorative Dentistry for You?
Damage does not sit still. A tooth that needs a filling this year can need a crown by the next, and a crown put off long enough becomes an extraction. Looking at it early almost always means less treatment rather than more.
What that treatment turns out to be depends on the tooth — how much of it has survived, where it sits in the bite, and what shape the gum and bone around it are in. Book an exam at Scarborough Village Dental Care and we will show you what we are looking at and set out the options that are realistically on the table.
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Scarborough Village Dental Care
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- Monday: 9 AM - 7 PM Tuesday: 9 AM - 7 PMWednesday: 9 AM - 7 PMThursday: 9 AM - 6 PM Friday: 9 AM - 3 PM Saturday: 9 AM - 2 PM
Cliffcrest Family Dental
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- Monday: 8 AM - 8 PM Tuesday: 8 AM - 8 PMWednesday: 8 AM - 8 PMThursday: 8 AM - 8 PM Friday: 8 AM - 4 PM Saturday: 9 AM - 2 PM