Cosmetic Dentistry

A chipped front tooth almost never happens at a convenient time. Someone bites down on a fork, a kid catches an elbow at a game, and by the time they are sitting in my chair the missing piece is long gone. The question is always the same, and it is a fair one: can you fix this today? A lot of the time the answer is yes, and the thing we reach for is bonding. It is one of the more useful treatments we have and one of the least explained, so here is the plain version. What bond

Whitening lightens some kinds of discoloration and does very little for others. A Riverside dentist on what peroxide actually does, how the options really differ, and what whitening cannot change.