Chipped Front Tooth: How to Restore It Seamlessly with Resin

If a tooth has broken because of an injury,

or has been gradually worn down for various reasons,

your teeth can become worn and slightly chipped

Many people may be wondering how to treat it,

Since the damaged tooth can be restored seamlessly with resin without removing any more of the already compromised tooth structure,

I’d like to introduce this method.

This patient had a slightly broken biting edge.

It could also be treated with a crown or laminate veneer,

but there is a way to treat it without removing any tooth structure at all,

without even reshaping it,

and to treat it as it is: resin buildup.

Let me explain that.

If you look at the photo, you can see that the proportion of the natural tooth has been well restored,

bringing it back to an attractive appearance.

When designing the tooth during the initial diagnosis,

it is very important for an experienced dentist to plan carefully how much treatment is needed.

In particular, by using resins of various shades,

if you express the color variation of a real natural tooth,

the optical effects of light transmission and reflection,

the translucent layer, gradation, and so on,

it can literally feel like turning back time,

as if the tooth has been restored to its original, intact state.

In this case as well, the broken tooth was restored with resin,

and after very gently smoothing the tooth just a little,

various shades of resin were bonded,

so it was treated as if it had never been treated at all.

In this case, the originally broken front tooth

was not coming in straight but was twisted,

and during treatment the inclination was corrected

so that it would look as if it had erupted straight. This is also why treatment planning is so important.

It is not simply a matter of filling only the broken area,

but of thinking through the direction that will produce the most balanced, attractive, and best treatment result,

and recommending that to the patient.

In this way, even a case of a “slight chip”

can be treated seamlessly with resin on the same day.

I also posted this case before,

and the treatment really turned out well.

The color variation and translucent layer of the natural tooth,

gradation,

and even the halo effect that becomes brighter toward the edge

were all reproduced well.

The tooth shape matched well, the color matched too,

and I still remember feeling very satisfied.

I will always do my best.

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