Trusted restorative dental care to the rescue to preserve your natural teeth and rebuild your smile

Las Cruces Dental Associates knows that restorative dentistry procedures do not have to be in your or a family member’s future. As its name implies, restorative dental care is about restoring damaged teeth and tissues back to health. Many oral conditions are preventable. So, we ideally want to catch problems like dental decay and advanced gum disease before they cause the damage that leads to such treatments. However, should you have damage that cannot be resolved with oral care products and hygiene-related guidance alone, trust our talented dentists’ expertise in rebuilding decayed, broken, or otherwise vulnerable teeth. Our team in Las Cruces, New Mexico, can even craft replacement teeth that are indistinguishable in appearance and function from natural teeth.

Options to preserve a natural tooth and avoid its extraction or removal include:

• A filling 
• An inlay or onlay
• A crown or “cap” 
• Root canal therapy

A filling can be an appropriate option for more modest damage, such as a small cavity. Inlays and onlays may be placed to build up a tooth weakened by a bigger cavity or more extensive damage. A dental crown may be placed on its own, for example, to hold together a broken tooth or to replace an extensive filling. Or, it may follow root canal treatment. Our techniques are very well-tolerated and may, in fact, be the only way to prevent tooth loss among those patients with severe damage to the innermost tooth structure. 

Options to replace an essential tooth that cannot be saved with root canal therapy or through other means include:

• A dental bridge
• A partial denture 
• A dental implant crown

For patients with many missing teeth or who have lost all or most of their teeth in the upper and lower dental arches, we may recommend:

• A full or complete conventional denture
• A dental implant bridge
• An implant denture (or “overdenture”)

“Traditional” tooth replacement with bridges, partials, and dentures are either supported by neighboring teeth or natural suction and denture adhesives. Dental implant crowns, bridges, and dentures are renowned for their stability. The prosthetic teeth are supported by the implants, positioned and secured in the jawbone to function as artificial tooth roots. They are the only method of tooth replacement that replicates the natural structure of healthy teeth.