What Is Dental Bonding?

Dental bonding is a tooth-colored resin that a dentist sculpts onto a tooth and hardens with a curing light. It fixes chips, closes small gaps, and covers stains, usually in 1 appointment with little or no enamel removed. Bonding costs less than veneers but stains and chips more easily over time.

How Much Does Professional Teeth Whitening Cost?

Professional teeth whitening cost depends mostly on the custom trays and how much gel your treatment takes. Dental insurance usually treats whitening as cosmetic and doesn’t cover it, but CareCredit can spread out the cost. Ask for a price when you call.

How Long Does Teeth Whitening Last?

Professional whitening results usually last anywhere from several months to a few years. Coffee, tea, red wine, and tobacco fade them faster. Because the custom trays are yours to keep, you can refresh your shade at home with a little more gel instead of starting over.

Cosmetic Dentistry in Tarboro, NC | Tarboro Family Dentistry

Cosmetic Dentistry in Tarboro, NC

A brighter smile, planned by the dentist who already knows your teeth.

Tarboro Family Dentistry, the practice of Dr. Gray Bailey, D.M.D., P.A., is a cosmetic dentist in Tarboro, NC, offering custom take-home whitening trays and tooth-colored bonding. Whitening trays lighten natural enamel at home, and bonding repairs chips and small gaps in the office.

Teeth Whitening

Professional whitening here uses custom trays made to fit your teeth, plus a whitening gel you wear at home on your own schedule. Because the trays fit closely, the gel stays on your teeth and off your gums. Treatment runs anywhere from a few days to a few weeks.

Whitening works on natural enamel only, so crowns, fillings, and veneers keep their current shade. If you have dental work on your front teeth, we plan around it before you start. Some people feel sensitivity while whitening, and it’s usually temporary.

Dental Bonding

Bonding is the conservative fix. We shape tooth-colored resin right onto the tooth to repair a chip or close a small gap, usually in 1 visit and with almost no change to the natural tooth.

Dr. Bailey also places porcelain veneers. If you’re curious about them, ask at your consult.

Smile Makeovers That Start with What Bugs You

A smile makeover combines treatments to fix the things you notice every time you look in the mirror. Order matters. Whitening comes before bonding so the new work matches your brighter shade, and a cracked or worn tooth may need a crown before anything cosmetic happens. Dr. Bailey maps out the sequence with you before anything starts.