Are you unhappy with the smile you currently have? Has years of not looking after your teeth or smoking taking its toll on your once pearly whites? Perhaps you have one too many chips or missing teeth. When you are not confident in your looks and how your teeth are, you are less likely to feel good inside.
If you are looking therefore to improve your smile, one of the best and quickest ways to do this is by investing in cosmetic dental procedures. Which one is right for you? To help you make the right choice, we are going to discuss some of the most popular treatments and procedures available right now.
Tooth Whitening
If the problem you have with your teeth is that they are yellowy or just anything but the white you would like them to be, then the best solution, if you are interested in using cosmetic dentists Wollongong, is teeth whitening.
Now, there are lots of home-use whitening kits available. While some of these offer varying degrees of success, they are not often considered to be the safest or most effective. It is far better to go to a dental practice or cosmetic surgeon and invest in their own teeth whitening treatment. They know what works and doesn’t work and often offer guaranteed results that you can rely on.
Crowns
What if the problem with your teeth is not the colour, but the fact that they are damaged or missing? More work is obviously required than simply whitening them, then. That doesn’t mean all is not lost, however, as at the very least you could have crowns installed. A crown is basically an artificially created tooth cap that is fitted onto an existing part of a tooth.
Compared to how they looked in the past, crowns look very much like the real thing. The dentist can even help to pick the crowns that match up in colour and tone with the rest of your existing teeth so that no-one need know that there is even a crown in your mouth.
Veneers
Sometimes, it doesn’t matter how much care you take to look after your teeth, accidents still happen. If you have chipped one of your teeth, it can not only be a painful when it catches on your tongue, but also very unflattering and can leave you with confidence issues.
In situations like these, though, there is one cosmetic dentistry procedure that could provide the solution you are after – restored teeth. The solution we are speaking about is veneers.
Like crowns, veneers are artificially made, wafer-thin layers of porcelain that are applied to the front of the affected teeth to cover over the chip or other damage. They could be being similar also to nail polish. You can have them coloured to match the rest of your teeth, so that the chip is hidden and only you will know that any part of your tooth is fake.
Dental Implants
While the solutions outlined above are ideal when the condition of your teeth is not too bad or you have a limited budget, it may be that you need something a bit more drastic. In those situations, it may be best to opt for dental implants.
These are artificial teeth that consist of a titanium root that bonds with the bone to give your replacements a firm and stable mount where they can be inserted into your mouth. Crowns are often used in conjunction with implants, so too are bridges. Bridges, as you may have guessed, are complete sections of several teeth to cover larger gaps.
