Chipped Front Tooth Repair

Where damage is extensive a crown may be more suitable.

Chipped front tooth repair.

A chipped front tooth can often be quite disfiguring. Broken tooth repair and treatment. Broken front teeth are often repaired with composite bonding described above or dental veneers. Degrees of severity of damage.

Temporary broken tooth repair kits are available in drugstores and online and can be helpful while waiting to see a dentist. The severity can vary enormously from a very tiny piece of superficial enamel being lost through to a severe fracture. In many cases people do not know when the tooth chipped. Chips will normally just damage the outer layer of the tooth the enamel.

Some kits include dental wax to cover jagged edges and others contain. A dental veneer is a thin shell of tooth colored porcelain or resin. If a front tooth is broken or chipped a dental veneer can make it look whole and healthy again. Although small chips are most common it still affects the look of your smile particularly if it is one or more of your front teeth that are chipped.

These thin coverings are applied to the front of the tooth to restore its cosmetic appearance.