Charlotte Dentist Dr. Tom Farley DDS Blog

Finished filling

admin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:21:29 +0000

I won’t show the tooth completely cleaned out, but it turned out to have a very deep cavity. However, after placing the filling, you can barely tell the tooth had any work at all. It came out great!

Finished filling

Hidden cavity revealed

admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:20:15 +0000

And only a little more, and you can REALLY see all the cavity!!

Cavity revealed

Hidden cavity started

admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:19:27 +0000

Ok. Just a little bit into the tooth and you can already tell there’s a more going on inside than you could originally see.

Hidden cavity

admin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:18:43 +0000

Just saw this patient and thought we’d take photos of the procedure because I could see a ’shadow’ in the tooth, but absolutely nothing on her x-ray. Having done many teeth similarly, I thought this would be a good teaching case. Here’s a photo of the tooth before we started:

Tooth with cavity

Another portrait photo

admin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:17:13 +0000

Just took this photo recently of one happy lady. Doesn’t she have a gorgeous smile??!! I’ll bet you can’t tell what we did to improve it….

Portrait photo

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:16:01 +0000

On a recent visit to get her teeth cleaned I asked this pretty patient if she’s lost weight. Yes she had!! And she was VERY proud of that fact! So I suggested we update her portrait photo that we had taken after we fixed her front teeth, and she readily agreed. Her teeth look absolutely amazing, and she takes a great photo, too!

Portrait photo

Tooth with bonding

admin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:15:22 +0000

So were able to conservatively repair this tooth in a few short minutes and get a great result just in time for this patient to head overseas for an extended trip. And no one will be able to tell she’s had anything done!

Broken tooth

Repaired tooth

admin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:14:07 +0000

And a few minutes later, we were finished! The patient was VERY happy with the results!

Newly repaired tooth

Repaired fractured tooth

admin — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:13:17 +0000

Although this had been fractured for many years, this nice lady agreed to have the tooth repaired after additional small pieces fractured off. And she was heading overseas for an extended trip, too. So we wanted to be sure she had no problems on her trip.

fractured tooth

Repaired tooth

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:12:39 +0000

This tooth has been fractured for MANY years. The patient never really did anything about it, but with a bit more of it breaking recently, she wanted me to ’smooth it out’. I thought the better idea was to replace the missing tooth structure.

Broken tooth