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A quick dental visit to fix your front tooth : Dr.Debbie

A quick dental visit to fix your front tooth : Dr.Debbie

Do you have any fillings done on your front teeth ? Have you experienced dislodged tooth coloured filling before while you eat ? Even though we are wearing masks most of the time nowadays , it must be very frustrating and unhappy when that happens.…

One visit dental gaps closure: Dr Nik

One visit dental gaps closure: Dr Nik

This is my patient. She had dental gaps and I did dental makeover for her to close up the gaps on her upper front teeth one and a half year ago. Now she’s back to continue with the lower ones. As you can see, she…

Another day, another FRC bridge: Dr Nik

Another day, another FRC bridge: Dr Nik

I remembered the first time I treated this patient three years ago. He was scared and terrified with dentist and it has been ages since he last had dental treatment.

He was referred to me then by his late father who was my patient. He had a broken upper left premolar tooth and requested me to save it. It was a badly broken tooth and I advised him to do root canal treatment followed by crown. He refused. Since he didn’t have any pain related to the tooth, he requested me to just do a filling instead.

I did a filling on the tooth with dental pins for extra retention and eventually two days ago the tooth broke again. This time the fractured extended into the root area and it can no longer be saved and has to be extracted out.

Options was given to replace the tooth. It’s either to do denture, bridge or implant. He opted for an immediate Fiber reinforced composite (FRC) bridge and requested to correct his left side front tooth that was tucked in with FRC bridge as well.

Upper left side tooth that’s tucked in and a broken tooth

So I ended up pulling 2 teeth and replacing both with FRC bridge. The whole procedure from extractions, putting in the rubber dam (black coloured thing) for isolation, bonding fiber glass strands to the adjacent teeth and shaping and sculpting composite resin into tooth like structure to replace the extracted teeth took me almost 3 hours.

During procedure with rubberdam on

It was a very tiresome procedure to not just me but him too. However, the moment his face lit up and he smiled when he look at his new smile, I knew it was a worthwhile procedure to both of us.

FRC bridge in place to replace extracted teeth

Need a quick solution to replace a missing tooth in one visit? Don’t hesitate to give us a call and we will be happy to assist you. In the meantime, Happy Merdeka Day Malaysia!

Dr Nik (nik@drfauziah.com)

What to do if you have dental gap/gaps?: Dr Nik

What to do if you have dental gap/gaps?: Dr Nik

Gaps in between front teeth. Do I need to correct it and close or fill the gaps? or can I just leave it as it is? These are the questions that patients keep asking themselves. Well, the choice is yours. Some might like the gap…

Long overdue treatment: Dr Nik

Long overdue treatment: Dr Nik

My patient has a porcelain crown on her upper left central tooth. It was done several years back at other clinic and the colour of the crown is slightly lighter than the rest of her teeth. It bothered her for so long and finally she’s…