What Smile Makeovers Entail

When your smile is not attractive, you would want to improve it. At your cosmetic dentist’s office, you can get your smile restored through one procedure or a combination of multiple dental procedures. One of the methods to enhance your smile is through a smile makeover.

What Is a Smile Makeover?

A smile makeover is a combination of multiple dental procedures that address cosmetic or dental imperfections. Some of the imperfections that smile makeovers correct include:

• Teeth that are stained or discolored
• Chipped, cracked, or fractured teeth
• Misaligned or gapped teeth
• Gummy smiles

By discussing your concerns with our dentist in Torrance, the dentist will be able to develop a custom-tailored treatment for you. When creating your treatment plan, the dentist will consider some aspects such as your facial appearance, tooth color, shape, and size.

What Are the Aspects That Smile Makeovers Improve?

Your dentist can use dental procedures such as composite bonding, teeth whitening, porcelain veneers, dental implants, and Invisalign ® to enhance the following aspects:

Tooth Color

Your teeth can be stained or discolored due to poor oral hygiene practices and oral habits such as using tobacco products and drinking colored and sticky beverages.

Tooth discoloration is mainly as a result of the accumulation of plaque on the surfaces of your teeth. To treat the effects of teeth discoloration, your dentist can recommend professional dental cleanings.

When your teeth are stained, the dentist will consider teeth whitening techniques depending on how severely your teeth are stained. If your teeth are severely stained, your dentist will recommend advanced teeth whitening procedures such as zoom teeth whitening. For less severe stains, the dentist can recommend bleaching using peroxide bleaching agents at the dental office.

Apart from teeth whitening, your dentist can address tooth color imperfections through composite bonding and dental veneers.

Missing Teeth

When you have one or more missing teeth, it affects your appearance negatively. Apart from your appearance, missing teeth can also affect your bite and lead to bone degradation. Therefore, replacing the missing teeth is significant.

To replace the missing teeth, your dentist can recommend procedures such as dental implants or bridges. However, the procedures are not reliable if you have missing teeth on the whole jaw. In such a case, your dentist will recommend dentures.

Alignment and spacing

When your teeth are misaligned or gapped, they don’t only affect your bite but also your appearance. However, you don’t have to panic since your dentist can correct the misalignments and restore your aesthetic smile through orthodontic procedures.

Some of the procedures that your dentist can recommend to correct teeth misalignments are Invisalign or traditional braces. The orthodontic procedures might take longer to align your teeth but are still reliable.

Shape and Size

When your teeth are cracked, chipped, or misshapen, they negatively affect your appearance. Also, short teeth make you have a gummy smile. Therefore, you might require a smile makeover to correct the dental imperfections.

To correct misshapen or short teeth, your dentist can consider composite bonding, fillings, and porcelain veneers. Your dentist can use amalgam fillings or composite bonding to restore chipped or cracked teeth. If your teeth appear shorter, the dentist can opt to use custom-made dental veneers that will lengthen the teeth and correct your gummy smile.

Alternatively, the dentist can re-contour your gum to correct the gummy smile.

Lips and Cheeks

Some of the factors that can affect the appearance of your lips and cheeks include tooth loss and aging. However, your dentist can perform some procedures to correct facial malformations. Therefore, your dentist can recommend orthodontic procedures, dental restorations, or maxillofacial surgery.

How to Maintain the Effects of a Teeth Makeover

Do you want to keep the results of a smile makeover for long? Our dentist at Digital smiles advises the following:

• Brushing your teeth using fluoride and whitening toothpaste at least twice in a day
• Flossing your teeth once in a day to remove plaque and tartar
• Regular professional dental cleanings to remove accumulated plaque and tartar
• Avoid sticky beverages and tobacco to prevent tooth discoloration and staining
• Do not chew on hard foods or grit your teeth to avoid wear and tear of restorations such as fillings
• Wear a mouthguard when playing contact sports to protect restorations such as implants and dental bridges from damage