{"id":3405,"date":"2017-06-23T17:01:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T00:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/?p=3405"},"modified":"2017-06-23T17:01:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T00:01:58","slug":"bonding-teeth-fluorosis-stains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/bonding-teeth-fluorosis-stains\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonding to teeth with fluorosis stains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"responsive-post-content\">\n<div class=\"post-left-column\">\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">We thank our advertisers who help fund this site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><!-- MyNewSmile sidebar tall --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 300px; height: 600px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4419877247826466\" data-ad-slot=\"6363395985\"><\/ins><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-right-column\">\n<p>Dr. Hall,<br \/>\nI am an orthodontist and recently had a 24-year-old Hispanic man come for treatment with severe fluoride staining. In your experience, would you expect braces to have acceptable bond strengths to be useful for two years of treatment? Is there a special protocol to help?<br \/>\nThank you,<br \/>\nDr. David Lehman <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Lehman,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to generalize my answer so it is useful to as many people as possible.<\/p>\n<p>My experience, of course, was with doing dental bonding procedures on patients with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/cosmetic\/fluorosis-stains.htm\" target=\"_blank\">fluorosis<\/a>. For the lay person reading this post, that is the clinical name of fluoride staining, and it comes from consuming excessive amounts of fluoride during childhood. We don&#8217;t see it too much in the United States, because the vast majority of our water supply is adjusted for optimal fluoride content. I&#8217;m guessing that this Hispanic man grew up in another country, which may explain the fluorosis.<\/p>\n<p>I did not see extreme fluorosis in my practice, but did see mild to moderate fluorosis, and never had any problem bonding to those affected teeth with normal etching. If the staining is severe, my understanding is that the recommendation is to double the etch time. There was a study done on this some years ago, and I believe that was the conclusion, and I concluded from the data that doubling the etch time, when fluorosis is severe, should produce a bond that would be equal to that of normal enamel.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hall<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a comment or a question or anything else to add? We&#8217;d love to hear from you. Enter your comment below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: currentColor; width: 450px; height: 80px; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mynewsmile.com&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Click here to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/askdr.htm\">ask Dr. Hall<\/a> a question of your own.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We thank our advertisers who help fund this site. Dr. Hall, I am an orthodontist and recently had a 24-year-old Hispanic man come for treatment with severe fluoride staining. In your experience, would you expect braces to have acceptable bond strengths to be useful for two years of treatment? 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