Dental treatments for customers in Swindon

Home tooth whitening kits

At Shaw Village, we offer professional take-home whitening kits. We provide you with whitening gel and custom-made trays, and can show you how to use them. You can then complete the treatment in the comfort of your own home at a time convenient to you. Enjoy a brighter smile with no need stick to a schedule or book appointments.

Using modern tooth-coloured materials, we offer white fillings that blend seamlessly into the natural tooth surrounding them. With a natural look, white fillings can help you feel more confident about your smile.

We numb your tooth and the surrounding area with a local anaesthetic. Once this has been done, we remove any decayed material from the tooth and clean it. Only then is the tooth filled. For white fillings, the material is layered into the cavity. A special light is shone onto the filling to speed up the setting process. Finally, we will shape and sculpt the filling to make sure it looks as natural as possible and doesn't interfere with the way you bite or chew.

Tooth bonding is the name given to white fillings put into the front teeth to correct small defects. Bonding can be used to correct chipped or crooked teeth, as well as any gaps between teeth.

After painting on an etching solution, we apply the filling directly to the tooth. Shaped and bonded into place, this simple procedure generally does not require an anaesthetic.

Tooth veneers are thin porcelain coverings that are fixed to the front of your teeth. Covering the whole of the front surface, they hide most imperfections including chips, cracks and discolouration.

A tooth crown fits over the remaining part of a damaged tooth. This helps to offer cosmetic correction as well as strengthening the tooth.

Similar to dentures, dental bridges are a permanent way to bridge the gaps created by missing teeth.

We usually recommend root canal treatment when the pulp of the tooth becomes infected, either through decay or injury. 

The pulp is the soft bit inside the tooth, and runs right through the root, carrying the nerve supply and nutrients. When it becomes infected, that infection can spread throughout the root canal system of the tooth and can cause an abscess which is often extremely painful.

During the first visit we will need to remove the infected pulp. We numb the tooth and the surrounding area first so that you do not feel any pain, and then use specialist tools to remove the pulp. 

The tooth will need to settle down, so we will give it a temporary filling. Sometimes the filling material will include medication to help to destroy any germs and prevent further infection.

On your next visit we will examine the tooth to ensure that the infection has cleared properly, and will replace the temporary filling with a permanent one. Sometimes a filling will be all you will need, but often the root canal treatment weakens the tooth and it will need strengthening with a crown. 

All of this will ensure that the infection is treated and minimise the chance of a recurrence.

Sometimes teeth become too badly decayed or damaged to be repaired, and need to be extracted. Gum disease can, in its later stages, cause teeth to become so loose that they have to be taken out. Some people have to have their wisdom teeth removed, usually because they are growing in the wrong direction and are causing problems.

The procedure for removing a tooth is relatively simple from a patient’s perspective. We will numb your tooth and the surrounding area with local anaesthetic, so you won’t feel any pain. We will then hold the tooth firmly, and will ease it out. 

There will be some bleeding, but we will place a gauze pad in the tooth socket to help stop the bleeding. We will generally ask you to bite gently on this padding for about half an hour, after which you can take it out and throw it away.

Denture wearing is no longer the ordeal it used to be. Modern techniques mean they fit far better than they used to, and look far more realistic too. They are ideally suited to people with a number of missing teeth. 

Even if you have lost all of your teeth, you will still need to visit us regularly to ensure that your dentures fit properly and check for signs of oral disease. You still need to care for your mouth, brushing your gums, tongue and palate daily as well as cleaning your dentures thoroughly.