Tooth Inlay Yellow
Can inlays, onlays or bonding be used to build up short, worn down molars instead of crowning?
My molars are severely worn down from years of night time teeth grinding. I feel they are too short to be successfully crowned as there wouldn't be enough remaining tooth structure to keep the crowns glued on. Can inlays, onlays or bonding material be used instead to build up worn down molars? I have no more enamel on my molars, just yellow dentin.
Crowns are just a type of onlay that wraps around your tooth. Since the crown will wrap all the way around your tooth it will stick much better than onlays would.
Inlays are used to fill holes in your tooth, so they might not be the way to go in your case, since your teeth are short not "holey".
Bonding material can be used, however when comparing the strength of crowns to bonding material, crowns win hands down.
Its not normal for your teeth to wear so much that you show ur dentin just from grinding, there may be other factors involved which you need to have looked at, such as acidity of your diet and whether you have saliva which can neutralise the acids from normal food and drink. If you fail to findout what is causing your tooth wear, your fillings will drop out pretty quick when the tooth holding the filling washes away.
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