Restorative Care
Years of wear and tear, injury, or poor care can hurt the look and function of your teeth. Dr. Morrison and his team change lives every day through restorative dentistry. Rejuvenate your smile today!
Dental Implants
Are you missing teeth? Have you postponed getting a bridge or dentures? Do you wear ill-fitting, loose dentures right now? If so, dental implants could greatly improve your quality of life. As the prosthetic that most closely mimics nature’s design, dental implants serve as substitute tooth roots. Each implant is strategically placed in the jaw, where bone integrates with it to create a solid foundation for a crown, bridge, or denture. With proper care, dental implants can last a lifetime.
Benefits of Dental Implants:
- Promote bone retention
- Eliminate slipping, loose, wobbly dentures
- Don’t require support from healthy teeth
- Can last a lifetime
- Look, feel, and function like natural teeth
Fixed Bridges
If you have lost a tooth, that space, left uncorrected, can create significant problems for your dental health. Gradually, your bite pressure may shift to other parts of your mouth to compensate for an inability to chew efficiently in the area of the missing tooth. Neighboring teeth may begin to move into the gap resulting in discomfort, pain and more problems in the future. After some preparation of the two neighboring teeth, crowns are created for them. A prosthetic tooth is fused between the crowns. Fixed bridges literally “bridge the gap” in your smile.
Porcelain Crowns
You can erase years of wear and tear with porcelain crowns. Dr. Morrison uses a tooth-like crown made of porcelain to restore your tooth after the decay has been removed. Crowns are also used to restore chipped teeth, broken teeth, gaps in teeth, and other damage. Also called “caps,” porcelain crowns mimic natural-looking teeth in both shape and color.
Root Canals
Damage to the nerve tissue inside of a tooth sometimes requires a root canal procedure. The procedure involves removing the soft tissue within the tooth when it has become infected and inflamed. Dr. Morrison gently removes the infected tissue and fills the void with an inert material. The procedure is completed with the placement of a crown.
Grinding and Clenching
Damage to the nerve tissue inside of a tooth sometimes requires a root canal procedure. The procedure involves removing the soft tissue within the tooth when it has become infected and inflamed. Dr. Morrison gently removes the infected tissue and fills the void with an inert material. The procedure is completed with the placement of a crown.
Tooth-Colored Fillings or Restorations
Are you embarrassed about your smile because of decayed, disfigured, or discolored teeth? You may be a good candidate for composite resins, -¬-also known as tooth-colored fillings or restorations. When the decay has been removed from the tooth, it is replaced with “filling” material. In the past, amalgam (silver) fillings were placed into the cleaned out portion of the tooth. With new advancements in dentistry, you can now have tooth-colored fillings instead of silver fillings, resulting in a long- lasting, brighter, whiter smile.
Extractions
In some cases, injury or decay damages a tooth extensively, and an extraction is the proper treatment option to start you on the path toward complete dental health. Dr. Morrison can remove your troublesome tooth and give you the treatment options for replacing that tooth and for completing your beautiful smile once again.