Corrective dentistry is commonly used to allude to any dental work that improves the appearance (however not really the usefulness) of teeth, gums and additionally chomp. It principally centers around progress in dental style in shading, position, shape, size, arrangement and in general grin appearance. Numerous dental specialists allude to themselves as "corrective dental specialists" paying little heed to their particular instruction, strength, preparing, and involvement with this field. This has been viewed as unscrupulous with an overwhelming target of advertising to patients. The American Dental Association doesn't perceive corrective dentistry as a conventional claim to fame region of dentistry.However, there are still dental specialists that advance themselves as restorative dental specialists.

n the past, dental fillings and other tooth rebuilding efforts were made of gold, amalgam and different metals—some of which were veneered with porcelain.[citation needed] Now, dental work can be made altogether of porcelain or composite materials that all the more intently imitate the presence of regular tooth structure. These tooth-hued materials are clung to the hidden tooth structure with gum glues. In contrast to silver fillings (amalgams) they are without altogether of mercury. Restorative dentistry has developed to cover numerous new methods and new dental materials are continually presented.