Dental professionals have a few etching variations to choose from that successfully bond existing tooth structures with restoration, whether it be a crown, a filling, or a veneer. If you're curious about every step of your dental restoration process, then it's only natural to be curious about dental etching. Let's go over what etching does to a tooth, the types of acid etching used in dentistry, and what the recovery process is like.
Just as you might sand the varnish off a smooth wooden table before you paint it a new color, the etching process makes a tooth surface rougher, so the attached dental material is more secure. Microscopically, etching dissolves some of the minerals in the enamel and dentin, the two outer layers of your teeth. This steady erosion creates rough features called "tags and tunnels" that can better absorb bonding resin chemically and physically lock it into place on the enamel and dentin surface.
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