What is Smile Design?
Smile Design is the art of designing a smile that improves your self-confidence and quality of life. In this way, you could fill in the gaps left by missing teeth, improve the size and shape of your teeth, correct the position of your crooked teeth, or make your teeth look better. A combination of lifestyle and personal factors can result in teeth showing various faults or blemishes over the years.
Changes in the appearance of teeth can be due to:
- inherited traits – some people have a family history of dental irregularities such as gaps, misaligned teeth, spots or blemishes
- staining that can result from certain foods or beverages, especially tea, coffee and cola
- smoking, which causes discolouration of teeth
- the use of some antibiotics in children, which can lead to permanent colour changes in permanent teeth
- chips or cracks, which may be due to trauma such as sporting injuries or accidents
- broken-down restorations, and age.
Rules of Facial Aesthetics
By utilising the rules of facial aesthetics, golden proportion of smile, tooth and gingival harmony, smile design aims to achieve a more harmonious state instead of the current state of disharmony. An effective smile makeover involves one or more cosmetic dentistry procedures, such as veneers, composite bonding, dental implants, and teeth whitening.
We offer a variety of modern treatments to improve the appearance of your teeth and smile.
- Veneers: These are like contact lenses and cover the front teeth and can significantly improve the shape ,size and colour of your teeth and thereby smile.
- Bonding: Bonding can correct blemishes and irregularities of the front teeth without removing tooth structure.
- Bleaching: This is a method used to whiten teeth.
- Tooth-coloured composite fillings: These can be an alternative to amalgam fillings in many cases.
- Inlays and Onlays: These repair larger cracks or cavities in the chewing surfaces of the back teeth, increasing their strength while maintaining their appearance.
Benefits of Smile Designing
We treat each problem individually. The dentist will pay attention to your specific issue rather than provide a generic solution. You can expect stellar results from this level of personalization. By incorporating certain procedures into smile design plans, you can achieve almost immediate results. A more complex approach to smile design will require multiple visits to the clinic.
Dental At Forest Hill: Advanced Care
The latest modern dental technologies are incorporated into our practice, including digital scanners, digital radiography, Zoom teeth whitening, CAD/CAM assisted implant placement and restoration. Our commitment to continuing education in dentistry allows us to offer you innovative therapies that enhance your experience.
Last but not least, you’ll be informed about procedures, risks, and costs when the initial assessment is conducted. You will be more confident in your decision when you have all of this information available to you.
You will be offered to preview your final smile with an instant digital smile design solution before altering your actual teeth by our dentist. Then only we design the smile you want based on your suggestions and approval.