If you’re feeling self-conscience about your teeth, or just want to improve your smile, cosmetic dental treatments may be the answer to a more beautiful, confident smile.
There are many cosmetic dental procedures available to improve your teeth and smile. Cosmetic dental treatments can change your smile dramatically, from restoring a single tooth to having a full mouth make-over.
Cosmetic Procedures:
Porcelain Veneers – Veneers are thin custom-made, tooth-colored shells that are bonded onto the front of teeth to create a beautiful individual smile. They can help restore or camouflage damaged, discolored, poorly shaped, or misaligned teeth. Unlike crowns, veneers require minimal tooth structure to be removed from the surface of the tooth.
Porcelain Crowns – A crown is a tooth-colored, custom-made covering that encases the entire tooth surface restoring it to its original shape and size. They are ideal for teeth that have large, fractured or broken fillings and also for those that are badly decayed.
Teeth Whitening – Bleaching lightens teeth that have been stained by age, food, drink, and smoking. Teeth darkening as a result of injury or taking certain medications can also be bleached, but the effectiveness depends on the degree of staining present.
Dental Implants – Dental implants are artificial roots that are surgically placed into the jaw to replace one or more missing teeth. Porcelain crowns, bridges, and dentures can be made specifically to fit and attach to implants, giving a patient a strong, stable, and durable solution to removable dental appliances.
Composite (tooth-colored fillings – Also known is “bonding”, composite fillings are now widely used instead of amalgam fillings to repair teeth with cavities, and also to replace old defective fillings. Composite fillings are also used to repair chipped, broken, or discolored teeth. This type of filling is also very useful to fill in gaps and to protect sensitive, exposed root surfaces caused by gum recession.