The best Washington, DC dentists perform several different dental procedures including dental fillings, dental crowns, dental caps, root canals and cosmetic gum surgery.

Dental fillings used to be amalgam (silver) or gold fillings restorations, that is until some of the amalgam fillings were found out to have mercury in them which is a very bad chemical toxin for the human body.  Today’s fillings are composite resin and can be colored to look like a natural tooth; they are durable, strong and make it very natural looking smile.

Dental crowns help people who grind their teeth at night, have an improper bite, bad fillings, age or tooth decay which are all contributing factors to breaking, cracking or wearing down of one’s teeth.  Dental crowns cover the entire visible surface of the affected tooth, adding durability and strength for tooth stability.

The best dentist in Washington, DC provides dental caps for those teeth that are no longer structurally sound.  Large-scale defects in a tooth’s surface could be caused from lost fillings, tooth decay, chipped and cracking teeth or root canals.  When the entire surface of the tooth is a problem, but the root scenes intact, a cap is the most appropriate solution for your teeth.

Root canals are often compared with the most painful things on earth; however it is not that bad.  There are tiny panels within your tooth that could become infected.  This leads to pulp inside your tooth to also become diseased; therefore your dentist needs to remove it by performing a root canal.  The canals that are filled in the tooth is either crowned or a filling is use in order to add strength to the tooth.  This procedure takes one to two visits to the dentist to complete. 

Cosmetic gum surgery is needed when a ‘gummy smile’ or a ‘long in the tooth’ smile needs to be corrected.  A ‘gummy smile’ is when too much of a person’s gums show when they smile and a ‘long in the tooth’ smile means the teeth looked very long instead of normal size when a person smiles because of too little amount of gum.  Cosmetic gum surgery is a procedure of lengthening a tooth from the neck of the tooth upwards.