Restorative Dentistry Park Ridge

Teeth aren’t like your skin, muscles, or even bones. When these tissues get damaged, they heal. Instead, when teeth are damaged by wear, trauma, or disease, they need to be repaired. That’s what restorative dentistry is: the use of dental procedures to repair your teeth, restoring their health, function, and beauty.

At Complete Health Dentistry, we are dedicated to helping you enjoy a high quality of life built on optimal oral health. Restorative dentistry helps us correct oral health problems, which can improve your overall health and give you a smile you’re happy to share with the world. Contact us today by calling (847) 696-3240 to learn how restorative dentistry can help you.

We can use restorative dentistry whenever you have suffered tooth damage, no matter how minor or how severe. With restorative dentistry, we can repair:

Cavities are when tooth decay creates holes in your teeth. When these holes are small, they are easy to repair. As they get larger, they require more complicated repairs. Repair is even more complicated when the cavity penetrates to the living part of the tooth, creating an infection.

Tooth wear can make your teeth flatter, which can affect the attractiveness of your smile. Worn teeth are also less effective for biting and chewing. Wear can cause tooth sensitivity. The ideal solution for tooth wear not only repairs current damage, but helps prevent future damage as well.

Chipped teeth might be due to tooth trauma, but it can also be a symptom of tooth wear, including a bad bite. While some chipping is cosmetic, other tooth chips can affect the function and comfort of your teeth.

Minor cracked teeth can be easily repaired, but if a crack is left untreated, it can worsen, eventually leading to a need to replace the tooth.

Fortunately, restorative dentistry can replace missing teeth. The replacement teeth can look, function, and feel like natural teeth.

While most restorative dentistry focuses on individual tooth repair, it’s also important to factor in the way that teeth function together. Restorative dentistry can do this, correcting a bad bite.

At Complete Health Dentistry, we offer a full range of restorative dentistry procedures to address all types of tooth damage. These procedures include:

Dental fillings treat cavities. We offer three types of fillings: metal amalgam, composite fillings, and ceramic fillings. Metal amalgam fillings are inexpensive and durable, but they may have health effects and they’re not very attractive. Composite fillings are attractive, and they can last a long time when placed in appropriate cavities. Ceramic fillings are strong and beautiful, but more complicated to place.

Dental crowns are sheaths that fit over your natural teeth. They give the tooth an entirely new visible surface, which means they can function as cosmetic dentistry for damaged teeth, too. Crowns provide support and protection for badly damaged teeth, including chipped teeth and infected teeth. Many teeth that might seem hopeless can be preserved with dental crowns to enjoy another decade of life or more.

Dental bridges are tooth replacements. The traditional dental bridge is anchored by natural teeth, supporting the replacement tooth (pontic). However, dental bridges can be supported by dental implants as well.

Dental implants are replacement tooth roots. These anchor in the jawbone, providing a stable connection point restorations like crowns, bridges, and dentures. We can use dental implants to replace any number of missing teeth, up to replacing a full arch using treatments like All-on-4 and All-on-X.

Full mouth reconstruction is a procedure that combines numerous restorative dentistry procedures to repair extensive damage to your teeth and/or fix a bad bite as part of TMJ disorder treatment.