The benefits of cosmetic dentistry and procedures that are available to make your smile better.

Don’t you wish every visit to the dentist left you smiling? Most of the time when you are in the dentist chair it is to have preventive care like deep teeth cleaning or to have a tooth repaired, a cavity filled or a tooth extracted. Not exactly the kind of visit that makes you smile afterwards. Sure your glad it’s over but your mouth is numb on one side and your drooling on yourself and don’t know it. Ok, not all visits to the dentist have to end like that; you can actually leave the dentist office feeling like a piece of art work- your teeth the masterpiece of your doctor’s accomplishment. How is that possible? Cosmetic dentistry is not the latest craze but it is becoming a catch all phrase to include having procedures like teeth whitening, veneers, caps and bonding done. Anything that can make your smile brighter and better is definitely worth investigating.
A lot of us grew up in the age before cosmetic dentistry, back when dinosaurs roamed free and cars had no seat belts. So if you lost your front tooth when the car you were in with no seat belts -hit the dinosaur that was crossing the highway- your options were rather limited to using a bride or showing the world your missing tooth every time you smiled. There’s nothing wrong with bridges, they can recreate the missing tooth and fill the missing gap just fine but if you’re young you may find the whole bridge piece embarrassing and hard to hide. But for those of you who are alive and well in the age of cosmetic dentistry, dental implants are a viable option for a missing tooth. Dental implants are permanent and undetectable. A titanium screw is surgically screwed into your jaw bone and the portion that is visible resembles a tooth in every way. No one ever has to know you are not totting all of your own natural teeth.
And for those of us who were given too much fluoride as babies or toddlers, leaving our teeth ironically spotted with white calcium deposits as a result, there is the option of porcelain veneers or bonding to cover these less than perfect white teeth and give you the teeth your parents were trying to give you in the first place.
It seems the cosmetic world of dentistry can do just about anything now a days so I guess it is possible to leave the dentist office smiling, especially if you have a smile worth showing off now.