With amazing tools and techniques, cosmetic dentistry can now change the shape, colour, brightness, and alignment of teeth, as well as replace them.
When your smile is beautiful and healthy, good things can happen. First, a better view of yourself leads to better dental hygiene and a better health in general.
Can you say with confidence that your teeth are white? In a poll done by the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry (AACD), people were asked, "What about your smile makes you the least happy?" People's top answer was the colour of their teeth. Some methods of cosmetic dentistry, like getting your teeth whitened, can make you look better and give you the confidence to smile.
When science and modern cosmetic dentistry are used together, the results can be amazing and often go above and beyond what the patient expected. This page will tell you about the materials and methods used in modern cosmetic and restorative dentistry. Please feel free to read the descriptions of these steps below.
Makeovers
Your smile can be messed up by yellow or brown stains, white spots, uneven gum lines, and uneven edges. Simple techniques for corrective cosmetic dentistry can give dramatic results right away. All of the following procedures can usually be done in one or two visits to the dentist's office.
A. Sharp tooth edges can be reshaped and polished in just one visit to the dentist.
B. Uneven soft tissue contours can be fixed in one office visit with only a small amount of local anaesthesia. As much as half of the beauty of your front teeth comes from the way your gums look. This is especially clear in the smiles of younger patients, who show a lot of gum when they smile or talk. An anterior soft-tissue re-contouring is a procedure that can be done in one visit using a laser and/or electrosurgery. The results are big and obvious, and they may last a lifetime.
C. You can get rid of yellow or brown stains with a simple "whitening" process that uses a patented gel and a blue light. The BriteSmile "whiter teeth in about an hour" service is popular and much faster than laser whitening. Some of the results can be shocking and dramatic. In just one visit, BriteSmile can make your teeth up to 9 shades whiter.
D. An acidic-microabrasion scrub can get rid of many dark and very white spots in just one office visit. An "acidic-microabrasion technique" can safely get rid of these unsightly spots in most cases in just one office visit. No painkillers are needed at all.
"Touch Up": Procedures in cosmetic dentistry that give you the most "bang for your buck" It has been shown that these steps are easy, safe, quick, and don't hurt anyone. They are cheap, and the results are fast, big, and last a long time.
In San Francisco, cosmetic dentistry has changed a lot in the last ten years. New, more effective ways to whiten and change the look of your teeth, as well as new materials and special tools to use them, are just some of the changes. Cosmetic dentistry uses reshaping, bonding, porcelain veneers, dental implants, and a number of other techniques to improve the look of your teeth.
Teeth that are decayed, broken, or chipped are common, but they can ruin your smile. Many damaged or misshapen teeth can be fixed. This is because of teeth grinding, brushing too hard, tooth decay, or just bad luck. "Direct adhesion" is the term for the way that the cosmetic dentist sticks fillings and crowns directly to your teeth (called "bonding") Direct adhesion methods keep the natural tooth structures as much as possible. If you take care of these things and don't abuse them, they will last for years. Even then, it's rare to fail completely financially.
Cosmetic dentistry can make your teeth look better if they are broken, stained, misshapen, or not in the right place. Find a good cosmetic dentist in your area and ask them to talk to you about how easy and painless the procedures can be.
