Restorative Services
At Dental Professionals, restoring your mouth to its full smiling glory is our dentists' first priority. Our Chicago dentists provide advanced restorative dentistry services to help keep your teeth looking healthy and strong.
Crowns: Restore substantially damaged teeth with crowns made of aesthetic porcelains or a combination of tooth-strengthening materials. Crowns can be used for a number of purposes-to cover a tooth and restore it to its normal shape and size, protect a weak tooth from breaking or restore one that's already broken, cover teeth that are discolored or badly shaped, cover a dental implant, cover and support a tooth with a large filling when there isn't enough tooth left or attach a bridge.
Bridges: Replace missing teeth with aesthetic porcelain fused to metal that attaches the artificial teeth and uses sound teeth on either side for supports. If you're missing one or more teeth, you may notice a difference in chewing and speaking. Bridges help maintain the shape of your face, as well as alleviating the stress in your bite by replacing missing teeth. Sometimes called a fixed partial denture, a bridge replaces missing teeth with artificial teeth and literally bridges the gap where one or more teeth may have been. The restoration can be made from gold, alloys, porcelain or a combination of these materials and is bonded onto surrounding teeth for support. An implant bridge attaches artificial teeth directly to the jaw or under the gum tissue.
Full and Partial Dentures: Full dentures are used if no teeth are left for support in conjunction with the gums and jawbone; partials are used if some serviceable teeth are present for support. If you've lost all of your natural teeth, whether from periodontal disease, tooth decay or injury, complete dentures can replace your missing teeth and your smile. Replacing missing teeth will benefit your appearance and your health. Without support from the denture, facial muscles sag, making a person look older. You'll be able to eat and speak-things that people often take for granted until their natural teeth are lost. A conventional full denture is made and placed in the patient's mouth after the remaining teeth are removed and tissues have healed.
Onlays: These large fillings restore severely damaged teeth with porcelain materials to match your tooth color.
