Is cosmetic dentistry helpful in smile designing?

A cosmetic dental treatment includes techniques that can restore or improve the appearance of your teeth. Such as it will allow restoring of teeth, improvement imperfections such as dark teeth, unleveled teeth, stained teeth, crooked teeth, worn down or broken teeth and missing teeth.

Cosmetic dental treatments include:

• Tooth Colored Fillings
• Porcelain Crowns and Bridges
• Tooth Whitening
• Porcelain Veneers

TOOTH – COLORED FILLINGS:

Tooth colored fillings, also called white fillings or dental fillings that can restore and mimic the natural appearance of original tooth structure. In addition to the restoring teeth that are decayed or fractured, shape of teeth cosmetically to change the size, color tooth colored fillings may be used to rectify the problem. This quality is predominantly useful in making teeth appear to be more straight or even, closing the gaps in between the teeth, repairing chipped teeth. In front teeth, tooth colored fillings are generally made up of composite resin and they will repair the dental decay, erosion, abrasion problems with an undetectable end result. In back teeth, tooth colored fillings are usually used to repair the small decay or erosion problems. Tooth color filling material can vary, but they are mainly prepared of synthetic resin, glass particles and a setting ingredient.

PORCELAIN CROWN AND BRIDGES:

Porcelain crowns mainly used to enhance your smile. Porcelain crowns will replace the exterior portion of the tooth to create a natural look or appearance and re–establish its original function. Porcelain crowns are the treatment of your choice in the situations where tooth decay, destroyed or damaged most of the original tooth, when a traumatic incident has caused damage, or in cases of severe or too much enamel erosion. They are also an option for the people who clench and grind their teeth so much so that the original structure of teeth has been compromised. The major benefit to porcelain crowns is that they can not only replicate the original tooth in the function, but can also be designed to look like original tooth or even better.

Bridges are recommended when you're missing one or more teeth. Gaps left by missing teeth centainly cause the remaining teeth to shift or rotate into the empty spaces, resulting in a bad bite. This imbalance caused by the missing teeth may also lead to gum disease and temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorders. Bridges are generally used to replace one or more missing teeth. They cover the space where the teeth are missing. Bridges are cemented to the implants or natural teeth surrounding the empty space.

TOOTH WHITENING:

Tooth whitening is a very successful and effective way to lighten the original color of teeth without removal of any tooth surface. It is the most popular cosmetic dental procedures because it will greatly improve the color of teeth. It is not one-time procedure. It needs to be repeated from time to time to maintain the color. Tooth whitening won’t make total color change of the tooth, but it may lighten the already existing shade. There are many reasons to get your teeth whitened. Everyone is different and how our skin and hair will vary color, so do our teeth. Very few people have brilliant-white color teeth naturally, but in some people teeth will become more discolored as they get older.

PORCELAIN VENEERS:

Porcelain veneers are the thin pieces shells of medical-grade ceramic, porcelain that are attached to the front surfaces of the teeth for an immediate smile transformation and are used to recreate natural look of the teeth, and they will also provides strength and resilience comparable to natural tooth enamel. It is often the material of choice for those who are looking to change tooth color, shape and size and make slight position alterations. Porcelain veneers are the thin pieces shells of medical-grade ceramic, porcelain that are attached to the front surfaces of the teeth for an immediate smile transformation and are used to recreate natural look of the teeth, and they will also provides strength and resilience comparable to natural tooth enamel. It is often the material of choice for those who are looking to change tooth color, shape and size and make slight position alterations.