Types Of Cosmetic Dentistry

What is Cosmetic Dentistry?

Cosmetics trends have found its way in dentistry as well. With advancing technology, cosmetic dentistry has become a widespread thing. The high side of these treatments is the advantage of how natural it looks.

Dentistry is a lot more than just filling and taking teeth out. Cosmetic dentistry deals with the aesthetics of your teeth. Modern cosmetic dentistry is key to a better smile as it deals with stained, discoloured, worn, chipped, broken, misaligned, misshapen teeth.

A smile makeover reflects positively on one’s personality and style and enhances your self-esteem. The remedies may be employed repair, lighten, reshape and to whiten teeth.
Cosmetic treatments comprise of veneers, implants, bridges, tooth-coloured fillings, implants and teeth whitening.
Cosmetic dentists work together with you at the best dental clinic to develop a therapy plan. Below you will find some information which may help you find out more about the types of cosmetic procedures available.

Types of Cosmetic Dentistry:

1. Dental Veneers
Dental veneers are custom-made shells of tooth-coloured porcelain or resin, which wafer-thin, that cover the front surface of the teeth. A few millimetres of enamel from the tooth surface is removed, these thin shells are bonded (cemented) to the front of the teeth this results in a change in their colour, shape, size, or length. Veneers are often called “Hollywood teeth.”

2. Teeth Whitening
This is one of the most effective and least expensive cosmetic dentistry to improve your smile. The teeth are bleached with various gels and moulds. Teeth whitening can be done without the help of a dentist with products that are available at retail stores specially meant for this purpose.

3. Dental Crown
A dental crown is also called as a cap. This fits and replaces an entire decayed or damaged tooth above the gum line, restoring its shape, size, strength, and appearance. Crowns help a weak tooth from breaking or hold a cracked tooth together; in addition to this, they can be used cosmetically to cover misshapen or severely discoloured teeth. Crowns can be made from ceramic, porcelain-fused-to-metal, resin, or metal.

4. Dental Bonding

In bonding, a tooth-coloured, putty-like resin, that can be a durable material, is placed on the enamel and hardened using a laser or ultraviolet light, bonding the substance to the surface of the teeth. Your dentist then pits, shapes, and polishes it. Bonding is used to repair cracked, decayed, chipped, or misshapen teeth; it is a cosmetic choice to, or substitute for, silver or amalgam fillings. Bonding takes approximately 30 to 60 minutes.

5. Inlays and Onlays
Inlays and Onlays, also known as indirect fillings, are made from gold, porcelain, or composite materials which are used to fill decayed or damaged teeth. Dental fillings are moulded into place during an office visit; The inlays and onlays are created in a dental laboratory and bonded into place by your dentist. The filling is called an “inlay” if the material is bonded within the centre of a tooth, and if filling includes one or more points of the tooth or covers the biting surface is known as an “onlay”.

6. Dental Implants
Titanium replacement of tooth roots inserted into the bone socket of the missing tooth are known as dental implants. As the jawbone heals, it grows around the implanted metal post, anchoring it securely in the jaw and providing a foundation for a replacement tooth.

7. Full mouth reconstruction
At times, while consulting your dentist for cosmetic dentistry treatments, the dentist may come across a few more issues that will need attention and suggests a few more treatments to correct some functional problems with your bite, teeth and bone structure. In case if you need full mouth reconstruction, your density will recommend the same and durable, clinically sound and functional treatments will be available which will make it look natural.

8. Other Options
A bridge is constructed on either side of a gap of crowns for the teeth with teeth between. A denture is a removable replacement for missing teeth. Dental braces can straighten misaligned or crooked teeth and works by applying pressure that is constant to move teeth in a certain direction.


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