If you have concerns with the appearance of your smile, then you could benefit from treatment with cosmetic dentistry. From teeth whitening to custom porcelain veneers, our team can help improve your smile’s beauty! In today’s blog, your Lake Orion, MI, dentist talks about helping smiles with cosmetic dentistry.
Starting Care with Cosmetic Dentistry
Do you want to see improvements for the appearance of your smile? Then you should see our team for cosmetic dentistry. With an intimal exam, we can look at your smile to assess the cause and beauty of the esthetic issues impacting your appearance. We can also talk to you about these concerns and what you want to see addressed. With this information, our team can create a custom treatment plan, one that could use one or multiple esthetic treatments to brighten teeth and address other issues, including gummy smiles and damaged teeth.
Whitening Your Smile
For people with teeth stains, we could use cosmetic dentistry to brighten your smile. With teeth whitening, we can target and remove your teeth stains. If you need results in one visit before a job interview, big event, or first date, then you should consider an in-office teeth whitening treatment. With this option, we will apply a bleaching gel to the surfaces of the teeth and then activate it with a light, which brightens your smile in as little as one to two visits.
What if you have more severe teeth stains? With our at-home teeth whitening treatment, we will create a set of plastic trays that fit snugly over your teeth. We then send these trays home with you, along with several plastic syringes of bleaching gel. You add the gel to the trays and wear them for a specific amount of time each day, usually about an hour a day. After one to two weeks, this could brighten your smile by several shades. The trays and any leftover gel is then yours to use should you need touch-ups in the months to come!
Placing Veneers
What if a single treatment could transform your smile? With cosmetic dentistry, we could makeover your smile in just two visits with one or more of our porcelain veneers. The restoration is a very thin shell of porcelain, one custom-made for your smile and that is attached to the front-facing side of the teeth. When in place, these mask teeth stains, fill gaps between teeth, repair damage, and reshape malformed structures, all at once. They could even correct the appearance of minor misalignment too, so you have a straighter-looking smile!
Gum Contouring
Cosmetic dentistry obviously allows us to reshape the teeth and address common esthetic issues, but what about the gums? For some, the presence of too much gum tissue could lead to teeth appearing short or uneven. We could help in only one visit! With gum contouring, our team can use advanced dental lasers to remove excess tissues and reshape the gum line, all in only one visit. Lasers help protect smiles from complications, and also provide comfortable care, often requires little to no anesthesia. This helps us reshape the gums and make sure your smile looks its best!
Dental Bonding
What if we could take on multiple esthetic issues with a single treatment option? The dental bonding process uses composite resin to mask stains and also repair teeth. This is the same material used in our lifelike fillings, so the placement process only takes one sitting. We can cover up permanent teeth stains and even address more gaps between the teeth. We can repair minor chips and even add length to worn down teeth all in one visit.
If you have any questions about cosmetic dentistry, or if you want to schedule your first visit to start the process, then reach out on our team today. We would love to help you use your remaining 2025 dental benefits and start care now before the holiday season is too hectic, so you start the holidays and the new year with your best-looking smile!
Lake Orion Family Dentistry Talks About Cosmetic Dentistry
We want to help you enjoy a smile that looks good, and also provides better health and function too. You should feel confident when you laugh or smile, and this is possible with cosmetic dentistry, so reach out to our team to start the process now! To find out more about our treatment options, or to schedule an appointment, call Lake Orion Family Dentistry in Lake Orion, MI at (248)693-6213.
