Restorative dentistry is about more than improving your smile. It can transform your quality of life by restoring your mouth’s function and comfort.

Restorative dentistry is the best option for maintaining dental health over the long term.

Issues like missing teeth, damaged enamel, and crooked smiles can impact more than appearances—they can affect a person’s self-esteem. Asheville Dental offers restorative dentistry services that tackle these concerns and help you reclaim your confidence.

What is Restorative Dentistry? 

Restorative dentistry focuses on repairing or replacing damaged teeth. Treatments like fillings, root canals, bridges, and crowns can address these issues and improve oral health and function. Some of the most beneficial results include: 

• Improved chewing function. Proper chewing relies on the teeth, jaw, and tongue working together to break down food for digestion. Pain from a broken tooth often leads to chewing on one side, reducing efficacy. Restorative dentistry can fix this quickly.
• Reduced jaw discomfort. Misaligned teeth can cause jaw pain, muscle stiffness, clicking, gum biting, headaches, and even sleeplessness. Many restorative dental treatments offer effective solutions to straighten teeth and ease discomfort.
• Maintained bone structure. Leaving a missing tooth unreplaced for too long can lead to bone loss. Dental restorations protect your jawbone and keep your smile looking and feeling natural.

Overall, restorative dentistry is the best option for maintaining dental health over the long term. 

Treating dental issues early helps prevent future problems.

Who Should Consider Restorative Dentistry? 

Restorative dentistry is ideal for anyone with damaged, decayed, or missing teeth. Consider this service if you: 

• Have cavities, cracks, or chips in your teeth
• Are missing one or more teeth
• Experience pain or discomfort when chewing
• Want to enhance the function or appearance of your smile

Your dentist will thoroughly examine your oral health at your routine dental checkup. If you are a good candidate for restorative dentistry, you will work together to design and implement the ideal treatment plan for your needs. 

Recovery time for restorative dental procedures varies based on factors like the number of teeth treated and the type of restoration chosen.

What Are the Types of Dental Restoration Procedures?

The most common type of dental restorations are fillings and crowns. However, there are several other options:

• Inlays and Onlays are partial crowns that shape where cavities are meant to fill. They are used when cavities are too deep or wide to be fixed with tooth filling but aren’t big enough to use a crown or cap. 
• Bridges use one or two or more teeth from opposing sides to suspend an artificial tooth or crown over the space where a tooth or teeth used to be. It can also replace a whole row of teeth. 
• Root Canals remove infected tooth pulp or roots. Then, the tooth is reshaped for a crown or filling. If the infection is too severe, the dentist removes the nerve and root and restores the tooth with a crown.
• Dental Implants are embedded into the empty socket where your missing teeth used to be. This procedure can also replace a whole row of teeth. 
• Dentures can replace an entire arch of missing teeth. Traditional dentures, secured with dental adhesive, offer an affordable option for restoring appearance and function compared to implants, bridges, or crowns.

Recovery time for restorative dental procedures varies based on factors like the number of teeth treated and the type of restoration chosen. The dentist will discuss how long you can expect your recovery to last before your appointment. 

Embracing a Brighter Future at Asheville Dental 

Treating dental issues early helps prevent future problems. At Asheville Dental, we focus on improving your oral health in a safe, comfortable environment using the latest technology and least invasive therapy.

Call us today to see how we can restore your smile!