It is a fixed dental restoration used to replace one or more missing tooth by joining an artificial tooth to adjacent teeth / implant.

It’s a custom-made tooth colored shell designed to cover the frontal surface of the teeth to improve the appearance.

Laminate veneer thickness ranges from 0.3 to 0.7 mm and requires much less tooth preparation, but this can vary according to tooth alignment.

Bleaching is a procedure that involves whitening teeth using certain chemical agents without altering natural teeth alignment and shape. While laminates are ceramics of egg shell thickness that are cemented to natural teeth and correct teeth shape, color and alignment.

Actually it can treat certain percentage of malalignment (as small diastemas, or slightly rotated tooth), but sometimes correcting tooth shape and alignment requires greater amount of tooth preparation, in such cases either orthodontic treatment or full crowns are more advisable.

There are porcelain fused to metal (PFM) crowns and all ceramic crowns.

PFMs are made of porcelain which are reinforced with an underlying metal alloy. Full ceramic crowns do not have any metal beneath it and could be either EMAX crowns or zirconia.

The only difference is that all ceramic crowns offer excellent natural appearance that if they are properly made they won’t be recognizable from natural tooth, while PFM crowns can be of great natural appearance and cheaper, but it is advisable to go for PFM crowns in posterior teeth as shade and appearance are of less demand.

EMAX crowns offer more natural look and superior esthetics. That’s why we always recommended EMAX crowns in anterior teeth, while zirconia crowns are stiffer and can withstand greater forces. That is why it is more advisable in posterior teeth to withstand greater forces of mastication.

A properly constructed crown can last more than 15 years, but this also depends on how you will maintain your oral hygiene. Remember although dental ceramic are not prone to decay, your natural tooth lying underneath the crown can still get carious.

In some cases where a dental bridge is constructed, the use of interdental brushes, super floss or water flossing could be effective in cleaning beneath the bridge. Otherwise, just your regular daily brushing and flossing is more than enough. Just remember to have your annual check-up arranged to make sure everything is fine.

When it comes to replacing missing teeth implants are our first treatment option. Yet in very few cases and mostly due to medical conditions implant success is less likely. That’s when we go for bridges which is still a great treatment option if properly maintained.

1. Flossing should be carried out at least once daily.
2. Cleaning under bridges using super floss, interdental brush, or by using a water flossing machine.

1. Avoid drinking hot beverages for 2hours after cementation.
2. Avoid eating all kind of food for 2 hours.
3. Avoid eating any kind of sticky food for 24 hours.
4. Flossing should be carried out at least once daily.
5. Cleaning under bridges using super floss, inter dental brush, or by using a water flossing machine.

1. Flossing should be carried out at least once daily.
2. Cleaning under pontics using super floss or inter dental brush.
3. Avoid using frontal teeth for crushing any kind of hard food e.g: (nuts).