Towson smile care dental offers affordable smile makeover services such as dental crowns, veneers and tooth-colored composite bonding. These restorations require regular cleaning appointments and oral hygiene. Mouthwashes with alcohol may degrade composite and porcelain restorations, so avoid using them.
Cosmetic dentists evaluate your smile line, teeth (color, width, length and display), gum tissue and underlying structure to ensure candidacy for a complete smile makeover. Your dental treatment plan will then be developed.
Cosmetic Dentistry
Cosmetic dentistry refers to the addition of dental materials, tooth structure or gums or a combination thereof to improve your smile. Aesthetic enhancements include but are not limited to teeth whitening, composite bonding, porcelain veneers and dental crowns.
In general, your dentist will conduct a thorough evaluation of your oral health to ensure that you qualify for any treatment. If your evaluation reveals an unattractive dental problem, like a misaligned bite (malocclusion), your dentist may suggest corrective treatment before proceeding with cosmetic enhancements.
Regardless of whether you are seeking general or cosmetic dental procedures, our Smile Care Plan helps make high-quality affordable dental care possible for all our members. Join today for a low annual fee and start enjoying the benefits.*.
Teeth Whitening
A brighter smile can improve your appearance, and teeth whitening is a safe cosmetic treatment. Stains and discoloration from food and drinks, tobacco and natural enamel wear are the typical reasons for a darkened smile, but these stains can be lightened with professional bleaching products.
Tooth Proportions
A good smile has proportionate teeth in terms of length and width. A cosmetic dentist will evaluate the size and shape of your teeth to determine if they are in harmony with each other and with your face and mouth.
Resin and porcelain dental crowns and veneers last for years, but they will eventually need to be replaced. When this happens, it requires impressions, shade matching and waiting for a new restoration. Replacing a crown or veneer is more expensive than maintaining them.
Veneers
Veneers are custom-made coverings that mask the front of your teeth to create a brighter, whiter smile. They can mask discolored, chipped or misaligned teeth, and they’re made of durable materials like porcelain or composite resin. They are not reversible, though, so you should discuss treatment carefully with your dentist.
They can address a wide range of cosmetic dental problems in a relatively quick and painless process. They can close gaps, reshape and change the color of teeth, lengthen short teeth, or repair cracked or broken ones. They can also help improve bite alignment by altering the surface area of teeth. Veneers require some reduction in tooth structure, so they may not be appropriate for everyone. Your dentist will evaluate your teeth and gums to make sure you’re a good candidate before moving forward with the procedure.
Crowns
Dental crowns, also known as caps, are a great restorative treatment for damaged teeth. They help restore the strength and appearance of a tooth and are customised to match the colour and shape of adjacent healthy teeth.
The crown will fully encase the damaged tooth, including the gum line. A putty-like material will be used to create an impression of the tooth and neighbouring teeth for the laboratory to mould a permanent crown to.
Our in-house Procera and Empress crowns are made through a two-layer system. Their aluminium oxide core is custom milled on a CAD/CAM machine and feldspathic porcelain is layered in a superficial outer layer to give it more translucent and lifelike aesthetic properties. Other crowns are ‘monolithic’ and are computer designed from a single uniform block on a CAD/CAM machine.
Dental Implants
When you’re missing teeth, dental implants provide an optimal solution for restoring a natural appearance to your smile. They replace both the tooth root and the visible portion of the tooth, which helps prevent bone loss in the jaw and encourages healthy gum tissue.
When paired with a dental crown, an implant-restored tooth looks and feels just like your natural tooth. It doesn’t slip or shift in your mouth, and it provides the support needed for a healthy, strong bite.
Before beginning the process, our dentists take X-rays and impressions (molds) of your teeth and jaw to determine the condition of your bones and gums. If the bone is too soft to support an implant, a bone graft may be performed to strengthen it.