Cosmetic dentistry is the art of creating the perfect smile customised to you. When you first meet someone, your eyes are naturally drawn to distinguishing characteristics about their face. Guess what? If you have bad teeth, this could be what people notice first!
With cosmetic dentistry the appearance of your teeth are transformed to a more beautiful, healthy and often stronger smile. The dentists can give your smile a small ‘lift’ or an extreme makeover in a very short amount of time.
Treatment covers a number of problems like
- Yellow or discolored teeth
- Chipped teeth
- Worn teeth
- Crooked teeth
While traditional dentistry focuses on oral hygiene and preventing, diagnosing, and treating oral disease, cosmetic dentistry focuses on improving the appearance of your teeth, mouth, face and smile.
Technological advancements in cosmetic dentistry have made it possible for The dentists to address a wide range of challenges. Two of the latest trends aimed at creating a more attractive appearance are smile makeovers and full mouth reconstruction.
A smile makeover improves the appearance of the smile through one or more cosmetic dentistry procedures, such as dental veneers/crowns, dental implants, and teeth whitening.
Full mouth reconstruction may include treatment for functional problems with the bite, muscles, teeth, and bone structure as well as the use of a smile makeover. Full mouth reconstruction involves advanced restorative treatment designed to address severe wear of the teeth, tooth weakness from having to many fillings, pain, and other problems. Full mouth reconstruction frequently involves several dentists who focus on their specific areas of expertise in order to obtain the best outcome. At the dentists with the technology available to them, full mouth reconstructions can be carried out by a single dentist.
Cosmetic dentistry procedures currently in use include:
- Dental Fillings and bonding repairs to chipped and broken teeth.
- Teeth Whitening - Teeth whitening is perhaps the most commonly recommended cosmetic dentistry procedure. Teeth are often stained from smoking, food, drink (coffee, tea, or red wine), or poor oral hygiene. Bleaching the teeth can enhance the appearance of your smile.
- Dental Veneers - Plastic or porcelain laminates bonded to the surface of a tooth to replace chips, cracks, worn, discolored or if a tooth whitening doesn’t give you the desired result or ‘gappy’ teeth.
- Dental Implants.
- Dental crowns/bridges.
