While teeth-whitening offers an effective and convenient solution for extrinsic teeth stains, tooth bonding and contouring can offer solutions for issues like chipped, worn, cracked, and jagged teeth as well as intrinsic dental stains. Minor imperfections can have a dramatic impact on your smile’s overall appearance, but in many cases, correcting them doesn’t require extensive tooth preparation or alteration.
Tooth bonding is the process of applying tooth-colored composite resin to the blemished tooth, then sculpting and hardening the resin to build up the tooth. By contrast, contouring a tooth involves gently sculpting a small amount of enamel to smooth sharp or overlapping edges, or to improve a tooth that seems too large.