Treatments / General dentistry / Complex tooth-wear rehabilitation
Complex tooth-wear rehabilitation
Assessment and staged restorative planning for teeth affected by more extensive wear.
Could this treatment help you?
Years of grinding, acid erosion or a heavy bite can wear teeth visibly shorter — edges chip, enamel thins, and the whole smile ages. Rehabilitation rebuilds the worn surfaces and, where needed, the bite itself, in a planned sequence rather than one emergency repair at a time.
The rebuilding is designed with the practice’s onsite laboratory, and it starts by finding the cause — because rebuilding teeth into the same destructive bite just wears the new work too.
This may suit you if
Teeth that look shorter than they used to, front edges that keep chipping, sensitivity from thinned enamel, or a partner reporting that you grind at night. The assessment separates what is worn from why it wore.
What it will not do
This is staged, considered dentistry — complex cases run over months, and the cause of the wear must be managed or the rebuild fails slowly the way the teeth did. The scope, sequence and complete cost are in writing before anything starts.
- The cause treated, not just the damage
- Rebuilt in a planned sequence with the onsite laboratory
- Full scope and cost in writing before you commit
- Step 1AssessmentThe wear is mapped, photographed and traced to its cause.
- Step 2DesignThe rebuilt shape and bite are planned with the laboratory — seen before agreed.
- Step 3RebuildingSurfaces are restored in the planned sequence.
- Step 4ProtectionA night guard where grinding is the cause, and reviews to hold the result.
Afterwards
A rebuilt bite takes a short while to feel normal — adjustments in the first weeks are part of the plan. The night guard, where prescribed, is what protects the investment; wearing it is not optional.
Questions patients usually ask.
How much does tooth-wear treatment cost?
It ranges as widely as the cases do — from bonding a few worn edges to rebuilding a full bite. Your written plan prices the whole sequence before anything begins.
Why not just fix the chipped tooth?
A single repair placed into a grinding bite tends to fail the way the tooth did. Sometimes a single repair genuinely is the right call — the assessment tells you which case yours is.
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