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For as long as most of us can remember, tooth decay has followed the same script. Your dentist spots something small on an x-ray, calls it a watch area, and tells you to keep an eye on it. A year or two later, you are booked in for a filling.
Curodont rewrites that script. It treats decay at the stage where it is still reversible, rebuilding your enamel from the inside using your own saliva. No drill. No injection. No healthy tooth taken away. It takes around ten minutes, and it works just as well for a seven-year-old as it does for a fifty-year-old.
Decay does not start with a hole. It starts invisibly, underneath the surface of your enamel, as acid produced by bacteria slowly draws minerals out of the tooth. Dentists call this demineralisation, and it can quietly carry on for months or years before anything is visible to you in the mirror.
Until recently, there was very little that could be done at this stage. Enamel is the only tissue in the human body that cannot heal itself, so the standard approach was to watch and wait. Wait for the lesion to break through, then drill it out and fill the hole.
Curodont Repair, developed in Switzerland, works at exactly this stage. It uses self-assembling peptides, which are tiny building blocks of protein, that soak into the early lesion and form a scaffold inside the tooth. Your own saliva then does the rest, depositing calcium and phosphate onto that scaffold to grow new enamel from the inside out.
It is the first treatment of its kind, built on more than 20 years of research and over 200 published scientific papers.
The whole thing is far less eventful than a filling, which is rather the point.
1. We find the decay early. Early lesions are picked up at your routine check-up, usually on an x-ray or during a careful clinical examination.
2. We prepare the tooth. The surface is cleaned and dried. There is no drilling and no need to numb anything.
3. We apply Curodont. A small amount of the liquid is placed onto the tooth and left to diffuse into the lesion. This takes about five minutes.
4. Your saliva rebuilds the enamel. Over the following weeks and months, minerals from your saliva form new crystals along the scaffold, regenerating enamel through the depth of the lesion.
5. We check how it is going. At your next visit we review the tooth to confirm the decay has been arrested.
6. Afterwards, there is very little to do. Avoid eating or drinking for 30 minutes, then carry on as normal: brush twice a day, keep sugar in check, and keep up with your check-ups and hygiene appointments.
Curodont may be a good option for you if any of these sound familiar.
One honest caveat. Curodont treats decay before a hole forms. If a cavity has already developed, the tooth will need a filling instead, and your dentist will talk you through that at your appointment. The earlier we see you, the more options you have, which is the whole argument for not skipping check-ups.
In clinical studies, more than 90% of early lesions treated with Curodont were successfully arrested or reversed. As with any treatment, results vary from person to person and depend on the size of the lesion and how well the tooth is looked after afterwards.
Nobody wants their child to have a filling. Beyond the treatment itself, a difficult early experience at the dentist has a habit of following people into adulthood, and we meet plenty of anxious grown-ups whose worries started in a dental chair at the age of eight.
This is where Curodont is genuinely useful. Children get decay in the grooves of their new adult molars more often than anywhere else, and it is frequently caught early. Treating it with Curodont means no needle, no drill and no lingering numb lip on the way back to school. Most children barely register that anything has happened. It sits naturally alongside the fluoride varnish and fissure sealants we already offer as part of children's dentistry.
Kreate Dental is among the top 1% of Invisalign providers worldwide, so we see a great many smiles at the moment the aligners come off. Occasionally that moment comes with a surprise: faint white or chalky patches where the enamel has demineralised during treatment.
These white spot lesions are early decay, and they respond well to Curodont. Rather than masking the marks, the treatment rebuilds the mineral content of the enamel underneath, so the tooth is both healthier and better looking. It is one of the more satisfying things we do.
Both treat decay. They are used at completely different stages, and they do very different things to your tooth.
Curodont costs from £120 per treatment at Kreate Dental. Because it is applied within an appointment you are usually already having, there is no separate consultation fee to budget for. Early decay is picked up at a routine examination, and new patient examinations start at £25.
Curodont is a private treatment and is not currently available on the NHS. For treatment plans above a certain value we offer 0% interest free finance, so a wider course of care can be spread over monthly payments.
It is worth putting the number in context. Treating a lesion early with Curodont is a one-off. Letting it progress means a filling, and then, over the years, a replacement filling, and sometimes more besides. The cheapest tooth to look after is always the one that has not been drilled.
We have been looking after families in Rugby, Dartford and Gravesend for over 20 years, and Curodont fits how we already like to work: catch things early, keep as much of your natural tooth as possible, and make the appointment something you do not dread.
There is no drilling and no injection, so there is nothing to numb and nothing to feel. Most patients report no sensation at all beyond the dentist working on the surface of the tooth. It is one of the gentlest treatments we offer.
Around ten minutes from start to finish, including preparing the tooth. In most cases we can do it within the same visit as your examination rather than bringing you back another day.
Wait 30 minutes after the treatment, then eat and drink as normal. There are no other restrictions and no recovery period.
We will review the tooth at your following appointments, comparing x-rays and clinical findings over time to confirm the decay has stopped progressing and the enamel is remineralising. Rebuilding happens gradually over weeks and months rather than overnight.
Yes. Curodont is suitable for both children and adults, and it is often the better choice for a child because it avoids an injection and a drill entirely. Our team will always talk it through with you first as part of your child’s dental care.
If the decay is caught before a hole forms, Curodont may well mean you avoid one on that tooth. If a cavity has already broken through the enamel, the tooth will need restoring in the usual way. Your dentist will tell you honestly which situation you are in.
Often, yes. White spot lesions after orthodontic treatment are a form of early decay, and Curodont works by rebuilding the mineral content of the enamel underneath rather than covering the mark up. We will assess the marks and tell you what sort of improvement is realistic.
The enamel that is regenerated is your own natural tooth structure, so there is no filling to wear out or fall out. Keeping the result depends on the usual things: brushing twice a day, keeping sugary snacking down, and coming in for regular check-ups so we can keep an eye on the tooth.
No. Curodont is a private treatment. It is available to all our patients in Rugby, Dartford and Gravesend, including those who normally see us for NHS care.
It starts with an examination. Book a check-up at whichever of our practices is easiest for you, and if we find early decay, your dentist will tell you whether Curodont is a sensible option for that tooth. If it is, and you are happy to go ahead, we can often treat it there and then.
Very thorough initial consultation with a good level of explaining the treatment protocols and clinical diagnoses. Good x-ray machine to hospital standard, which allowed for the dentist to show clearly the issues affecting the tooth concerned and immediate areas in the jawbone.
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