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Dental Bonding in Henderson

Dental bonding is tooth-colored resin added over your own teeth, not carved into them. Bonding repairs one chip or gap, and composite veneers use the same resin across several teeth, to a design you approve first. Dr. Goh removes no healthy tooth, which is what makes it reversible.

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  • Top Dentist, Las Vegas
  • 27 years in practice
A chipped front tooth today, and the same tooth with bonding addedTwo views of the same front tooth. On the left, today, a corner of the biting edge has chipped away. On the right, with bonding, tooth-colored composite is layered onto that corner. The tooth underneath is untouched: bonding adds material and nothing is drilled away.TODAYWITH BONDINGGUMTOOTHCHIPPEDa corner of the edge is goneADDEDcomposite layered on topnothing drilled away
Cost
Composite veneers or bonding are $1,100 per tooth. The consult is $100.
Time
A 60-minute consult first, then a visit to approve the design. The veneers take one long visit and a short one to polish.
Insurance
Plans often do not pay for cosmetic work. Payment plans through CareCredit and Cherry. Insurance and payment
What
Tooth-colored resin shaped over your own teeth. Nothing is drilled away.

Composite veneers: two ways, one simpler and one built to last

Both use the same approved design and both go on top of your own enamel. What separates them is the material, and what the material decides is how long the result holds its edge. Dr. Goh works with both, so the choice is yours to make once you know the trade.

01 · The simpler path

Fewer visits, sooner

When you want the shape changed soon. The same approved design, added on, with less chair time. It is also the easier of the two to adjust later.

Reversible · enamel untouched
02 · The longer-lasting path

A tougher material

The same design in a harder-wearing composite that holds its polish longer. It takes a longer appointment, and suits you if you would rather not revisit it for years.

Built to hold up
03 · Before either one

Whitening & gum work

Composite matches a shade and never lightens, so whitening comes first. Gum reshaping comes first too when the gum line is uneven. Each is priced separately.

Separate, and first
Dr. Goh explains

“Your own proportions decide what the right smile is for you, and let the teeth get drawn to fit that exactly. A facially generated smile design. As you get to see it before we do anything that cannot be undone.”

Dr. Irwan Goh, DDS
Shade and shape worked out by hand before anything reaches your teeth
Shaped and shaded by hand
Why the mold matters

The shape is decided before it is placed.

Freehand composite bonding is sculpted directly on the tooth, so each one is its own small negotiation and the smile is assembled a tooth at a time. It works, and it depends heavily on the day.

It is a small difference in method and a large one in outcome: what you get is the design you signed off on, rather than an approximation of it. The mold carries surface texture too. That faint, light-catching irregularity is most of what separates teeth that read as real from teeth that read as done.

What to expect

Is this right for you?

Composite veneers change the shape of teeth: width, length, edges, the gaps between them. That is what they are good at, and knowing it is what keeps expectations honest. Colour is a whitening question. An uneven gum line is a gum question. Teeth in the wrong position are an alignment question, and Invisalign® often comes first.

At the exam Dr. Goh tells you which of those you actually have, in what order they should be handled, and whether composite is the right tool at all, before any design work starts.

  • Great fit

    Chips, worn edges, small gaps, teeth that are shorter or narrower than their neighbours, and anyone who wants to live in a new shape before committing to porcelain.

  • Talk first

    Grinding, a heavy coffee habit, or teeth far out of position: all workable, and all reasons the material choice or the order of treatment changes.

  • Something else first

    Active gum disease or decay gets treated before any cosmetic work. Whitening and gum reshaping, if you want them, also come first and are quoted on their own.

Individual results vary. Composite is not permanent. It is renewable, which is a different and more useful promise.

Dr. Irwan Goh, who plans Dental Bonding and Composite Veneers care at Smiles by Goh in Henderson
Dr. Irwan Goh, DDS
27 years in practice · solo in Henderson by choice
Your dentist

Dr. Goh plans your care himself.

  • Dental degree, UCSFDoctor of Dental Surgery
  • Certified Digital Smile Design providerSmile plans start from your face
  • At least four more dentists review itEvery Digital Smile Design plan
  • LVI Global graduateAdvanced cosmetic training
  • Academy of Facial EstheticsFace and smile together
  • Top Dentist, Las VegasDesert Companion
Digital dentistry in the office
  • iTero 3D scans
  • CBCT 3D imaging
  • 3D-printed smile previews
  • Invisalign Outcome Simulator

The honest answers.

12 questions
Same family of material, different way of placing it. Bonding is sculpted freehand, tooth by tooth, and the result depends on how the hand moves that day. Here the shape is formed inside a clear mold made from a design you have already looked at and approved, so every tooth relates to the ones beside it, and the smile matches across the whole arch instead of one tooth at a time.
Start with what bothers you: one chip or a small gap on a tooth you otherwise like usually needs bonding on that tooth alone. If several front teeth bother you for shape or length, composite veneers change them together, with nothing drilled away. Porcelain veneers last longest and hold their color best, but a thin layer of enamel comes off first, and that cannot be undone.
Often, yes: Dr. Goh roughens the enamel around the chip so resin can grip it, rebuilds the edge, and hardens it with a light. Bonding is $1,100 per tooth, and a chip that runs deep may need a filling or a crown instead. He tells you which once he sees it.
No. This is added on top of the enamel you already have. Nothing is filed down, nothing is shaved off, and that single fact is what makes it reversible. The tooth underneath is untouched, so every option stays open to you later. Porcelain veneers are the opposite: they need a thin layer of enamel removed, and enamel does not grow back.
It depends which of the two materials we use, and Dr. Goh will give you his own honest read at your visit rather than a number off a website. What is worth understanding is why they differ: composite gets its strength from the filler packed into it. The version that flows easily into a mold has less filler, which is exactly what makes it easy to place and also what makes it wear and dull sooner. The tougher version holds up longer and asks more of the appointment. Neither is permanent, and we will tell you plainly which one fits how you use your teeth.
They get renewed, not started over. The design is a saved digital file, so the shape you approved can be rebuilt in the same material, or used to make porcelain later, if by then you want the long-term version. You are not paying to solve the same puzzle twice, which is a real part of why starting here makes sense.
More questions (6)
Porcelain lasts far longer and resists stain better, and it costs more and takes enamel to place. Composite is additive, reversible, and quicker, and it will need attention sooner. A fair way to think about it: composite lets you live in the new shape and be certain you want it before committing to something that cannot be undone. Plenty of people are happy staying with composite and never move on.
Composite picks up colour from coffee, tea, red wine and tobacco more readily than enamel does, and it cannot be whitened once it is placed. Bleach works on natural tooth structure, not on resin. It can be polished, and the polish does bring the surface back. If you drink a lot of coffee, say so at your visit; it changes which material we recommend.
Plan on three, and only one of them is long. First a visit to examine, scan and photograph your teeth. Then a visit where you try the design on and decide. Nothing is bonded until you have seen it on your own face. Then the restorative visit, where Dr. Goh does the whole thing in one appointment. A short visit after that finishes the polish along the gum line and between the teeth, and fits the night guard. If you need whitening or gum work first, that runs before all of it on its own timeline.
Because the thing that wears composite fastest is not eating, it is grinding, and most people who grind have no idea they do. The guard takes that load at night instead of your new edges. It is the cheapest thing you will do in this whole process and it does more for how long the result lasts than anything else you can control.
You see it before it is real. We fit a temporary version of the approved design over your own teeth so you can look at it in the mirror, in daylight, and say what you want changed. It is additive, so it comes straight off, and it comes off before you leave the office; what goes home with you is the design and the photographs. Not every case can be previewed this way, but a lot of them can, and Dr. Goh will tell you at the exam whether yours is one.
It is worth saying plainly, because the before-and-after photos never do. In the published cases behind this technique, the gum line was surgically reshaped and the teeth were whitened before any composite was placed. In the clearest of them, the photograph taken after the whitening and the gum work, with no composite on the teeth at all, already shows most of the change a casual viewer would credit to veneers. What composite then does is the shape. Told this way, you can judge for yourself whether the shape is what was bothering you in the first place.
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See the shape first. Decide after.

Come in and Dr. Goh will look at what is actually bothering you (shape, colour, gum line, position) and tell you which of them composite can fix and which it cannot. If it is the right tool, the next step is a design you approve before anything touches a tooth.

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