Dental veneers have a cosmetic as well as a functional role to play. They not only help protect a damaged tooth surface, but also aid in enhancing your smile, lending it a natural, aesthetically pleasing appearance.
The dental veneers are specially made casings of tooth-resembling ceramic material which when put on the tooth surface, can screen worn thin tooth enamel, lopsided tooth arrangement or spacing and cracks or fractures. Dental veneers are a part of the cosmetic dentistry category as they generate a brilliant, white smile with perfectly positioned, well-shaped teeth. What’s more, the modern day veneer’s translucent ceramic quality lends a more natural appearance than what was earlier available.
Irrespective of how unsightly teeth are produced, London dental veneers could be the answer to nearly all of your enhancive dental problems, including:
Worn enamel: After a while, the fine, strong white substance that covers your teeth (enamel) might get damaged, tarnished, and stained. This kind of damage and staining could either be natural or due to a genetic tendency. But, it’s usually because of your habits (drinking coffee or tea, soft drink, smoking, taking medicines, and so on).
Wear & tear: With aging, the teeth naturally wear away. Aged teeth tend to have more fractures, cracks or by and large don’t have a uniform look.
Genetics: Some people, from birth may have irregular spaces between their teeth that get bigger with age.
Irregular teeth: General wearing away or tooth grinding may cause irregular teeth.

Cracking of a tooth is something that does need immediate attention. The dentists in London send out a very clear message. They say to not consider any tooth problem minor because it can affect your life pretty bad.
There can be a lot of reasons for a tooth to crack such as trauma, tooth decay, weakened tooth, etc. Another very important cause of tooth cracking is tooth grinding, which in medical terms is known as bruxism.
When a tooth is cracked, depending on its location, it then has very sharp edges that can damage the inside of your cheeks and also affect your diet, which in turn will affect your health. So, this is something that needs immediate attention or you start losing weight.
If you have a cracked tooth, then use warm water to rinse your mouth and then apply cold compress so as to minimize the swelling. You now must be thinking as to what can be done to repair the fractured tooth.
Well the first step that the dentist takes is to smoothen out the edges of the cracked tooth. Then different options can be adopted to repair it such as bonding, repaired with restorative material such as gold, alloy, silver, etc.
In bonding, porcelain as well as enamel is applied to the fractured tooth. So anyone who has a fractured tooth, must seek the care from your dentist as soon as possible. The care is sought not only for health reasons but also due to cosmetic basis too.

Most parents in London could have heard their kids grinding their teeth during sleep. Some people grind/clench their teeth when they get anger or stress. That is quite normal. But this tooth grinding action can be with or without their knowledge. The Medical term for teeth grinding is bruxism. Teeth grinding or chewing action is a complex neuromuscular reflex activity, which is controlled by the brain (higher center) when we are awake. During sleep, the higher center or brain is inactive and the chewing reflex center, which becomes active, is not controlled by the inactive higher center resulting in bruxism. Most people who grind their teeth do so during sleep and this is called sleep bruxism.  These people are quite unaware of it until someone sleep with them notices. Sometimes people don’t notice at all and become aware of it when evaluated for other conditions such as jaw pain, headaches, dental sensitivity or dental erosion or TMD. The aetiology of this complaint is actually unknown. There are various theories such as stress, psychological causes, nutritional deficiency of vitamins such pyridoxin, vitamin D, calcium, magnesium etc. In some people, it is associated with some sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea, snoring, etc. Teeth grinding is very common in children during teething, both when milk teeth appear and also when permanent teeth develop. Children generally outgrow this problem when the teeth erupt completely hence, no treatment is required. However, if your child grinds off his/her teeth for long, it might require treatment. In London, dentists generally suggest the use of mouth guards to protect the child’s teeth, if they don’t require any specific treatment. Sometimes they might be just stressed out or anxious before going to bed. So, when you identify this problem, don’t wake him/her from sleep to tell them, “hi you’re grinding your teeth”. Instead, just help them relax by telling or reading out some good small stories, or by just talking to them about nice things when they go to bed.  Some adults are also found to have this problem, which occasionally is associated with other dental problems such as nonalignment of teeth, malocclusion, structural abnormalities of the jaws etc., hence treating the root cause helps to get rid of this problem without any special treatment. So if you suspect you have bruxism, better not hesitate to visit your dentist and find out whether you have any dental conditions that is causing this problem.  Sometimes this clenching or grinding of teeth could result in serious problems with temporomandibular joints. Bruxism can also lead to wearing off of teeth, chronic headaches, pain in jaws, restriction in the movement of mandible, ear pain, etc. For adults, the use of dental guards could be of some help in constraining bruxism and protecting their teeth from irregular wearing and early erosion. So, the next time you feel like clenching your teeth, just relax… count 1,2, 3,…. and your teeth are saved.