Since no single approach serves the needs of every patient, careful evaluation of alternative or combined approaches is essential to a pleasing and lasting result.
Bleaching and Micro Abrasion: if your teeth have become darker and yellowed over the years, bleaching is a simple, safe and inexpensive way to regain the natural brightness in your smile. Small blemishes on your teeth can be abraded away to look like new. A professional evaluation is necessary in order to determined the best technique and predictability of final results.
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Aesthetic Recontouring: In some cases, simple reshaping of the front teeth, even without anesthesia, may produce a dramatic result to correct jagged, chipped or slightly uneven teeth. The dental sculptor becomes the maestro of art, employing sanding discs and creativity, in tandem with nature.
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Dental Bonding: with composite resin was one of the first and most promising techniques developed for instant smile enhancement. It is still the most economical way to correct broken or misshapen teeth. The composite material will need to be replaced in 5 to 10 years.
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Porcelain Veneers: offer the most exciting advancement in Aesthetic Dentistry. Dynamic results can usually be achieved within a week to ten days to correct somewhat misaligned, broken, discolored or misshapen teeth. Veneers are quite suitable as an alternative to minor orthodontics, but not recommended in cases of severe crowding or misalignment of teeth or malocclusions. Customarily, veneers are preferable to full crowns when there is adequate remaining tooth structure to support the restoration. The approach requires less reduction of healthy tooth structure than full crowns, without compromising the periodontal health. It is a blend of art and science that enables a skilled practitioner to achieve a sensational result. For many patients, unhappy with their smiles, porcelain veneers may be a dream come true!
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Orthodontics: Many orthodontists claim that upwards of fifty percent of their practices include adult patients. The use of clear brackets, dental insurance benefits and higher disposable income affords an opportunity for many dental patients to realize the value of adult orthodontic care, once considered elective.
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Periodontal Resculpting: With the use of modern periodontal plastic surgery techniques and the employment of synthetic bone, very pleasing aesthetic outcomes may be achieved, in selected instances, with periodontal surgery.
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Dental Implants: are not as ideal as a natural, healthy dentition but dental implants, when judiciously diagnosed and skillfully restored, offer patients an opportunity to achieve a functional and aesthetically pleasing smile.
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Porcelain and Composite Onlays: for posterior teeth now provide a durable intermediate level of care between the directly placed bonded composite fillings and full coverage crowns. The lab or Cerec-3 processed restorations offer a superior fit and contour; with a resin bond cement, it results in a restored tooth stronger than the original.
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Crown and Bridge Dentistry: While porcelain veneers and onlays offer amazing results, they require adequate remaining tooth structure for their support. Full coverage all-porcelain crowns are undetectable from mother nature's own and many times look better than the original. Porcelain fused to precious metal crowns offer additional strength for the molar area and those power chewers and night grinders in the audience. And for the ultimate power bite, nothing comes close to the gold crown or onlay for second molars. The same variety of materials can be used in the appropriate area for replacement of missing teeth with a fixed bridge or placed on dental implants.
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Dentures: Advances in modern dental care offer more patients alternatives to losing all or most of their teeth. However, full or partial dentures are still an available option in treating dental conditions ravaged by extensive periodontal disease or tooth decay. Full dentures are not as functional as a healthy dentition, but may provide dynamic aesthetic results. There may be no other discipline that requires the practitioner to fully integrate his skills in art and science as the delivery of full dentures.
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