Harley Street Dental Studio in the city of London offers a range of treatments to help you feel as confident as you can about your smile, ranging from solutions to help fix damaged teeth, to whitening treatments to help your teeth achieve a brilliant shine. Sometimes whitening treatments alone are not enough to help achieve that perfect smile, as they do not help to repair teeth. Dental bonding, however, can help your teeth look whiter and brighter, at the same time as helping to fix minor problems such as chips or cracks in teeth.

What is dental bonding and how can it help me?

Dental bonding uses a mouldable composite (mixed) material which uses acrylic and a blend of other materials which is dependent on the exact type used. Firstly, teeth are cleaned thoroughly, and then the surface of the tooth is etched (roughened slightly) using a special gel. Next, the composite, paste-like material will be applied onto the tooth, and then a special light is used to help the material set and become firmly fixed to the tooth. The material is added in several very thin layers, until the desired shape has been achieved. The material used in dental bonding can be perfectly matched to the shade you want, to help match the surrounding teeth so exactly that it can even be hard to tell which teeth have had treatment. This means that this treatment can help you to achieve a whiter, brighter smile, as well as helping to fix any minor damage that has been done to the teeth, ensuring that your smile will be more uniform and your teeth will be stronger. A similar process of dental bonding can even be used to help close gaps between teeth, or slightly reshape teeth, if there is a need.