ARE YOU CONSIDERING COSMETIC DENTISTRY?

 Your first consideration is what do you wish to achieve?  Do you want a smile that captures your personality and looks like you were born with naturally beautiful teeth?  Or would you prefer extremely white perfectly straight teeth with a somewhat artificial look? 

Either way, for restorations that resemble healthy natural teeth, with lasting beauty and no black lines at the gum nothing compares to all-porcelain veneers or crowns.  They can be used to close gaps, change color and even properly align your teeth, all without braces.  Crowns are protective covers that preserve your teeth veneers are facings.  Whether it is a veneer or an all-porcelain crown the look, durability and cost are the same as is the result, a beautiful smile.

Do you want to preserve as much healthy tooth structure as possible, or are you willing to sacrifice sound structure for an extreme makeover?  Do you want to restore the fewest number of teeth required to achieve a dramatic result?  Are you updating old dental work or are all of your teeth severely worn?  If you have healthy teeth would your consider braces and bleaching?  All of these questions need to be considered.

Your teeth are the canvas for the dentist’s art and your face and lips are the frame.  Face shape, hair color, full or thin lips, slight facial asymmetries that we all have need to be considered in designing your smile.

Achieving a smile makeover with two or four teeth requires more artistic ability than just covering all ten upper front teeth.  So, how do you select a dentist that is an artist as well as a proficient technician?An experienced cosmetic dentist should have many before and after photos of patients that they have actually treated available for your viewing.  Many dentists purchase photos of professional models for their demonstration photos, but did not perform the work you see. You might be surprised to see the same patients on many different dental websites. When looking for a skillful cosmetic dentist, you’ll want to see images of their actual work. 

 Call the office that you have selected and ask how they create smile makeovers.  Custom designing a smile requires photographs, study models and a laboratory redesigned smile on those models before your teeth are altered. After you approve the new design, your teeth are prepared and you will wear temporary restorations so you can finally approve the appearance and function of your new smile before the permanent laboratory fabricated porcelain restorations are placed.  The staff you contact should be readily able to describe this to you.

Works of art are not inexpensive, but the fewer crowns or veneers used to create the look that you want, the lower the cost will be both monetarily and in the number of teeth that are trimmed and covered in porcelain.

Search on the internet for such topics as “cosmetic dentist Tallahassee”.  Do some research on the internet and become an informed consumer, before you determine who will design and create the smile of your dreams.  Get the opinion of more than one dentist as you seek a smile makeover that is custom designed just for you.