Sometimes, despite our best efforts, our teeth develop dental infections. If you are battling dental cavities, our Santa Monica dentist can help you treat these problem areas, and restore your teeth. We offer a number of treatment options to suit patients with varying degrees of dental infections. Today we are providing you with a review of various restorative treatments that are available to you.
When you come in for cavity treatment with our dental team, our main goal is to eliminate the infected dental material in your tooth. Once we extract this damaged material, we will go to work restoring your tooth, so that you can jump back into your normal routine.
If your dental cavity was fairly small, we can restore your tooth using a simple filling. We will custom-shade a dental resin compound to match your natural enamel shade. Then, we use this resin to fill in the missing parts of your tooth. Finally, we cure this resin so that it hardens and bonds to your tooth.
More embedded infections may require our dental team to eliminate more dental material than can be replaced with a simple filling. In these cases our team can craft a customized crown to rebuild your tooth post-cavity-extraction. The crowns that we use are natural-looking, and very durable. Every crown is shaped, sized, and shaded to suit the patient’s unique smile.
Finally, severe dental infections often necessitate root canal therapy. Root canal therapy allows our dental team to go into the core of the patient’s tooth, and remove all infected material, including the dental pulp, nerve, and tooth roots. This treatment becomes necessary when an infection has moved through the patient’s dental enamel and dentin into the inner tooth. Once our team has extracted all of the infected and damaged dental material, we will clean the tooth, and restore it using a filling or crown!
If you think that you are battling a dental cavity, please reach out to our Santa Monica dentist as soon as possible. Timely treatment can make all of the difference for your smile!