Choosing the Right Dental Restoration

It’s important to pick the right solution for your smile to restore function, aesthetics, and health for your bite. Restorative dentistry is crucial when it comes to creating a beautiful smile, and at Stony Brook Family Dentistry, that’s part of our focus for our patients. We work one-on-one with the patients with a goal of helping patients choose the right solution for their smiles.

Follow these factors to decide on your restoration goals:

Restoration Needs:

When you are choosing a dental restoration that’s right for you, it must address your dental needs but also stop future problems from occurring in your life. When there is excessive treatment of a minor tooth chipping or a cavity, which includes unnecessary invasive procedures, your smile can get compromised. As a result that can lead to health issues and a need for more treatment. At the same time, not getting restorative care until the problem is at its worse can create a situation where you require serious dental repairs. Therefore a conservative approach to dental restorations will preserve your natural teeth as much as possible. If you have teeth that are severely damaged and cannot be saved, there are long-term replacement paths that you can take, such as dental implants.

Aesthetic Goals

When it comes to modern dentistry, the goal with dental restorations is not only to create function but also to improve the aesthetics of the teeth. Therefore, patients have cosmetically-driven restoration options to choose from but that cannot be altered. So, for a more uniform treatment, it may be beneficial for patients also to get cosmetic treatments to create uniformity in addition to crowns, veneers, and bridges.

Treatment Longevity

When you undergo dental restoration, it should last into the future. However, some of the treatments available are more long-term than others. For example, things like partials and dentures are good for an immediate solution, but they can eventually deteriorate bone and gum tissue, creating a situation where more dental work is needed. A permanent solution, such as dental implants or implant-supported dental restorations, could be a better solution.

We have a goal, at Stony Brook Family Dentistry, to give our patients all of the information they need for choosing the right dental treatment. Learn more about restorative dentistry by getting a consultation at our Suffolk County office.