Restorative dentistry repairs teeth that are decayed, damaged, worn or missing. Kinard Family Dental in Helotes offers crowns, inlays and onlays, dental implants, root canals, dentures, extractions and full-mouth rehabilitation. Patients come from across San Antonio and Boerne. Request an appointment to have the options explained for your situation.
A gap is not only cosmetic. The bone that held the root begins to resorb once the root is gone, because the stimulation that kept it dense has stopped. Neighboring teeth drift toward the space and the opposing tooth can over-erupt, which changes the bite for teeth that were never the problem.
Dental implants address this because the post sits in the bone and keeps loading it. That is the practical argument for an implant over a bridge, beyond how it looks and feels.
Restorative work is ordered from the least invasive upward. A filling before an onlay, an onlay before a crown, root canal therapy before extraction. A natural root is worth keeping even when the crown above it is heavily rebuilt. Nothing else stimulates the bone the same way, and nothing else gives you the same sense of how hard you are biting.
That order is the reason an early preventive visit is worth the appointment. Problems caught small stay small.
Most restorative work runs across two appointments: one to prepare the tooth and take a digital scan, one to fit the final restoration. Crowns are milled in-house, which shortens that gap and keeps the fit under the practice's control rather than a laboratory's schedule.
Root canal therapy has a reputation it no longer deserves. With modern anesthesia, the appointment feels much like having a filling placed. The pain people associate with it is usually the infection beforehand, not the treatment.
Some situations involve wear, missing teeth, decay and discoloration together, usually built up over years. Full-mouth rehabilitation treats them as one plan instead of a run of separate repairs. That matters because the bite has to work as a whole.
Dr. Kinard holds a Fellowship from the International Congress of Oral Implantologists. She is also a faculty member at The Center for Exceptional Practices for full arch restorations.
Every plan begins with imaging and a conversation about what you want the result to do. Request an appointment, or read more about our Helotes dentist.
