{"id":2025,"date":"2017-01-19T21:45:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T02:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2017-01-19T22:07:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T03:07:34","slug":"bonding-for-worn-down-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/bonding-for-worn-down-teeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonding for worn down teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This patient&#8217;s lower teeth were worn down from years of grinding and clenching. We discussed crowning all the lower teeth, but I wanted to try bonding composite to the tops of the teeth to build them back up. He will eventually wear this away, but it&#8217;s easy for me to add to and re-bond the teeth as he wears them down over the years. I also made him a nightguard to wear when he sleeps to protect the teeth.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2026\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2026\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/worndown-teeth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2026 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/worndown-teeth-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"worndown-teeth\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/worndown-teeth-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/worndown-teeth.jpg 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">worn down lower teeth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2027\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2027\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/afterbonding.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2027 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/afterbonding-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"afterbonding\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/afterbonding-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/afterbonding.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">after bonding<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2028\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2028\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/nightguard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2028 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/nightguard-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"nightguard\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/nightguard-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/nightguard.jpg 625w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">nightguard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This patient&#8217;s lower teeth were worn down from years of grinding and clenching. We discussed crowning all the lower teeth, but I wanted to try bonding composite to the tops of the teeth to build them back up. He will eventually wear this away, but it&#8217;s easy for me to add to and re-bond the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/bonding-for-worn-down-teeth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bonding for worn down teeth<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[36,100,10,101,12,71,15,17,18,76],"class_list":["post-2025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worn-down-teeth","tag-bite-splint","tag-dental-bonding","tag-dentist","tag-dentistry","tag-dr-gentry","tag-dr-philip-gentry","tag-northern-virginia","tag-philip-gentry","tag-tooth-bonding","tag-worn-down-teeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2033,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions\/2033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}