Internal Teeth Whitening is a minimally invasive way to enhance your smile. The above patient had an accident as a child with a cricket ball and his front tooth changed color over time. This is a characteristic sign of a non vital tooth, or a tooth which has lost its ‘Life’ due to trauma. Every tooth in your mouth has a blood supply and a nerve supply. Due to any trauma, this supply gets traumatized and the tooth changes color due to the deposits of blood within the tooth. However this can be treated very easily with a non invasive approach to help whiten the tooth from the inside without any unnecessary drilling of healthy tooth structure, specially in young patients who have intact healthy tooth structure. After a routine root canal treatment in the tooth, which is usually painless as the tooth is already without a vital nerve, a special bleaching gel is left inside the tooth and a temp filling done from the back side. The front side of the tooth remains intact and never touched or drilled. Over 1 week the tooth gradually changes color, which is monitored to match the color of the neighboring tooth. Once the desired shade is achieved, the bleaching gel is washed out and the tooth is permanently filled.
This technique is safe, predictable and we are always in control of the shade outcome. However like all treatments, although rare, there are chances for relapse, failure or shade relapse over time. Other techniques for correcting the shade of your teeth involve the use of Dental Veneer Repair London.
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(The above case was executed by Dr. Shravan Chawla at Elmfield House Dental Practice, Teddington)
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