Turn a Spooky Smile Spectacular with Cosmetic Dentistry

Feel like you could dress up as a zombie for Halloween and get away with your less-than-perfect teeth? Feel like this fake-out isn’t possible in normal daily life? When your dental circumstances are dire and your smile is broken down, it’s time to make a major change that positively impacts oral health, self-esteem, and overall appearance. Customized cosmetic dentistry delivers the sweets that no amount of trick-or-treating can acquire.

Glow Bright Day or Night

Are your teeth dingy and discolored? Some patients only need a tweak while others require extra help to find their inner Jack-o’-lantern. Consider the following:

• Professional teeth whitening is the first cosmetic dentistry treatment to consider. When you are a good candidate for this procedure – something your Bethesda dentist will determine immediately – you can walk away with a smile that is multiple shades brighter than ever thanks to powerful professional bleaching products.
• Porcelain veneers deliver a stunning smile makeover when you cover less-than-perfect teeth with these super-thin shields. In color, length, size, and shape, veneers are personalized to build out a bigger, better, more beautiful smile that is always white and always looks natural.
• And, simply enough, a much-needed teeth cleaning can spruce up tooth enamel and make your smile gleam, especially after a lot of candy-eating and coffee-drinking.

Tweak One Tooth at a Time

Over time, existing cosmetic dentistry or dental restorations begin to deteriorate. Use and age, as well as issues like chronic teeth grinding, can turn once well-done fillings into smile elements that are falling apart. In most cases, a replacement of a broken or damaged filling with a dental crown is necessary and here’s why:

• Broken or crumbling teeth have many openings that allow bacteria and plaque inside and eventually lead to dental infections. They cannot go unaddressed.
• When a tooth restoration is falling apart, a porcelain crown is the safest and most robust solution to rebuild the tooth and protect your smile.
• Smaller problems can be corrected with dental inlays or onlays which cover the chewing surface of the tooth and one or more cusps for a minimally invasive but powerful solution.
• Anticipate the need for a bigger tooth repair than the one that’s fading – but also anticipate a solution that will last much longer and keep your smile in good shape.

Ditch the Day-to-Day Costume

It’s incredibly important to feel good about your smile. Halloween gives you the opportunity to blend broken-down teeth into a similarly spooky costume, but you have to live your normal life every day. If you’re self-conscious about smiling, video calls, taking photos, or engaging face-to-face with clients, colleagues, friends, or family, it’s time to upgrade your teeth permanently.

Don’t wear a costume every day – be yourself and feel good about how you look and, most of all, how your teeth look. Contact Bethesda Family Dentistry to discuss a smile makeover, cosmetic dentistry, and what refreshed teeth can look like for you.