Broken & Chipped Tooth Repair in Bethlehem, PA

Always About Smiles repairs broken and chipped teeth at our Bethlehem, PA dental office, and a broken front tooth is seen the same day you call. I rebuild smaller chips with bonding in one visit and restore larger breaks with an onlay or a crown.

Teeth with deep fractures that suddenly spread are one of the most frequent dental emergencies and one of the reasons so many of us need crowns, root canals or even lose a tooth. Often these emergencies and root canals can be prevented if the fractures are diagnosed early. That is why I look for cracks at every check-up, long before one gives way.

Fiber optic transillumination is a diagnostic tool that uses a concentrated fiber optic beam of bright light (like an intense miniature flashlight). The bright light reveals cavities located between teeth or under crowns and veneers. It can also detect cracks in your teeth that are not visible to the naked eye. It takes seconds, and nothing about it touches the tooth.

How much of the tooth is left decides the repair. Modern dental bonding with tooth-colored plastic or resin material can be added to change teeth contours or length and can easily be removed or adjusted if needed, which suits a chipped edge in one visit. When a tooth is beyond restoring with a simple composite bonded filling, inlay or onlay, a crown may be recommended to save the tooth.

Yes. A broken front tooth is seen the same day at Always About Smiles, and Mary Lou and Gina know to treat that call as exactly that. Most front teeth are built back with bonding at the same visit, matched against your own teeth in natural light, so you leave with the tooth looking like a tooth again. People drive in from Saucon Valley for that.

Three things, and I read them the same way every time. If the entire tooth lights up from one side to the other, the tooth is intact. If the entire tooth lights up, but fracture lines are visible, the fractures are generally shallow and require only monitoring. If only one portion of the tooth lights up, there is a deep crack that requires urgent care.

It depends entirely on the repair, and you'll have the figure before anything starts. A bonded chip is the least of it and is usually one visit; an onlay or a crown is more, and is quoted with the build-up if one is needed. Financing is available, and paying by cash in advance carries a 5% discount.

Usually, yes. Bonding is done in a single appointment: the resin is shaped onto the tooth, matched to the shade of the teeth beside it and polished, and you eat normally the same day. Larger breaks that need a crown take two visits, with a temporary in place in between so you are never without the tooth.

That is the work, not an afterthought. The goal for the repair is to look like it belongs with your natural teeth—not like a repair was done. I'll carefully match the shade, translucency, shape, and details of your surrounding teeth so it blends in beautifully. I'll take my time to make sure the result looks life-like and harmonious with your smile.

It can, and it is worth saying before the work rather than after. A trumpet player with a chipped front tooth can have the tooth restored with bonding to make it look great from a cosmetic standpoint, but this restoration may ruin his playing career. Tell me you play and I'll shape the repair around your embouchure.