What Can Be Done About A Chipped Tooth?

Chipped teeth can be easily fixed and made like new thanks to today’s modern dental technology. If you have a chipped tooth and are worried over it, don’t fret. There are many options you have available to get it filled in and looking like brand new.

First Aid Treatment

A chipped tooth can cause pain and discomfort immediately after the damage to the tooth. Don’t worry though, because this is a natural reaction to your teeth’ pain receptors sensing damage. There is nothing to worry about. Eventually, the pain will go away, but in the meantime, you can apply a cold pack to the outside of your cheek to alleviate pain.

Take ibuprofen or aspirin if you need one and you can apply an over the counter numbing cream such as lidocaine, available at a local pharmacy or store to the area to numb the nerves in the tooth until you can get to the dentist’s office.

Dental Filling

One of the most common methods of cosmetically restoring a chipped tooth is dental filling or dental bonding. A dentist will use a polymer resin that will naturally bond with the rest of your undamaged tooth. This is a non-invasive and painless, tried and true method that involves no alteration to your natural teeth.

A dentist will select the correct shade of polymer resin to match your teeth’s current color shade. Like molding clay, while the resin hardens, your dentist will mold and shape it to match the rest of your teeth. Eventually, it will harden and it will look brand new.

Tooth Reattachment

If you still have the chipped part of the tooth, you may be able to arrange to have it re-attached to the teeth with bonding resin. This is an option that is more practical if a large part of your tooth has been chipped.

Tooth reattachment can be an option for more health-minded individuals who would like a more natural technique compared to filling in their chipped or damaged teeth with plastic resins or polymers.

While getting a damaged or chipped tooth repaired at the dentist may seem like a painful process, it won’t be at all. Thanks to modern procedures, the work will be done non-invasive and simply involve the application of resins and polymers to bind to your chipped tooth.

Contact your dentist right away if you need to have a chipped tooth repaired.