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Composite dental filling as an alternative to gum surgery

A Dental materials company VOCO has produced an dental filling material that can be placed on root surfaces of teeth that is pink in color.  Highlands Ranch dentists Dr. James DeLapp and Dr. H. Candace DeLapp see a potential use in situations where gingival recession or abfractions have exposed the root surface.   Placing a typical “white dental filling” makes the tooth look very long. Their office served the Denver, Lone Tree, Castle Rock, Castle Pines,Parker, Centennial, Greenwood Village and Highlands Ranch areas of Colorado.

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Alternative to the long tooth look

Being “long in tooth“  is a term used years ago to describe someone who was older.  The long tooth seen was from gingival recession and was frequently seen in older individuals. There are certain situations where some type of gum surgery may “mitigate” this look of being long in tooth. Adding gum back to a receded  area has not been perfected.

Prevention of the long tooth may be the key

While treating the long tooth with either a pink filling material or gum surgery… the key may be in prevention. Two of several causes of the long tooth relate to gum disease and occlusal disease or abfraction.  Early detection and treatment of gum disease is the best medicine.  Occlusal guards and orthodontics “may” help with the occlusal disease.

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