Dental Bonding

This time of year, we’re always munching on yummy stuff — from chocolate Santas to gingerbread men, from holiday cookies to peanut brittle. Only sometimes, that brittle can be a little more than brittle, and we end up chipping a tooth. Uh oh. As long as the chip is small, it’s not worrisome for the

No one has a perfect family. Maybe more bonding would help. Or not. And no one has a perfect smile. Bonding with the team at Gentle Dental would definitely help with that! Drs. Strober, Messer, and Butcofski cover minor cosmetic defects, such as chips or gaps between teeth, with dental bonding. Bonding is a great

While betting on the U.S. Women’s Team to win the World Cup in July was a pretty sure bet, there’s something else that is much more likely — that a person’s teeth are not perfect. They may look pretty good, but there still may be a crack or a chip here or there. One tooth

If you took Psychology 101 in college, you probably remember that experiment that explored monkeys and bonding with their mothers. It showed that bonding was pretty crucial to normal cognitive development. At Gentle Dental, we don’t know about that kind of bonding. But we do know about dental bonding, which may not help your cognitive

Every summer you can reliably find a James Bond movie marathon on TBS. At Gentle Dental, while we love 007, we love another type of bonding more, dental bonding. Dental bonding is a simple, non-invasive option for fixing a variety of cosmetic issues with your teeth. What is dental bonding? In dental bonding, we apply

Bonding. You remember it from that experiment discussed in your Psych 101 class where the monkey bonded with that wire mesh surrogate monkey. You remember your Mom saying that “This Thanksgiving will be a wonderful time for you to bond with your cousins, you know, the ones who just got out of prison.” Or maybe

Ask any musclehead about what is the hardest tissue in the human body and he’ll probably do a Hans and Franz flex. But the muscles are nowhere near the hardest tissue in the body. It’s the enamel on your teeth. Tooth enamel consists mainly of minerals, primarily hydroxyapatite. It covers the crown, the part of

Bonding. When most people hear that word they think of a baby bonding with its mother, or maybe glue bonding. They don’t think about their teeth, but they should. Dental bonding can be a good solution to certain dental problems. Dental bonding uses resin, a plastic-like material, to cover of fill dental problems. Bonding is

For something that can be used in so many different ways, dental bonding is such a simple procedure. In short, bonding is where your dentist somehow applies a resin-like material to your tooth, permanently bonding it together with a special light. It is very fast, and there is no need to damage any of the