Debbie Family Dental services

Patients are highly recommended to have this general appointment every six months. The teeth and gums are given a full clean, removal of calculus and plaque, fluoride treatment and assessment by the dentist. This will ensure the continuous health of your teeth and gums, preventing decay and the onset of gingivitis.

Poor oral hygiene causes decay to eroded away the tooth structure. To restore and preserve the tooth, all decay must be removed and then the tooth structure built back with fillings.

At Debbie Family Dental, we use only the highest quality white resin composite for fillings. Composite is a very similar material to your natural teeth, so your filling will not only be aesthetically appealing, but will also expand naturally with your tooth over time, unlike amalgam fillings which may crack your teeth as they expand.

Endodontic treatment is necessary when poor oral hygiene has led to an infection of the tooth root canals, and the patient wishes to keep their tooth as an alternative to having an extraction. However sometimes an extraction may be the only option: the dentist will assess this for you.

Many patients opt to save the tooth from extraction through root canal treatment as a natural tooth is usually better for biting, chewing and also cleaning and maintenance. There are also health issues associated with losing a tooth, as nearby teeth can move out of their regular position and tilt into the cleft left by the missing tooth.

When the tooth needs to be removed due to various reasons, usually decay or untreated fillings, the tooth must be removed in order to avoid an abscess and toothache. Dr Debbie Leong is known to be extremely gentle and efficient when removing a tooth. Extractions are usually treated under local anaesthetic.

We use Opalescence to whiten our patient’s teeth. This is a very gentle, painless, yet highly effective method to whiten teeth. It has no detrimental effects on the enamel, unlike many other whitening methods.

We firstly take impressions of your teeth to create a tray perfectly fitted to your mouth, then give you a take home Opalescence whitening kit for you to do in your own time. Results are almost always seen within a week or two. For more information, visit Opalescence.

Bonding is the application of a tooth-coloured composite resin to repair or improve the appearance of a decayed, chipped, fractured tooth. It also can be used to close spaces between teeth, to make teeth look longer or to change the shape or colour of teeth.

The composite resin used in bonding can be shaped and polished to match the surrounding teeth.

Bonding is the least expensive of cosmetic dental procedures and unlike veneers, which are manufactured in a laboratory and require a customized mold to achieve a proper fit, bonding can be done in a single visit.