A Complete Smile Makeover
How do you get a smile of your dream, a smile that is straight, white and even?
All you need is a complete smile makeover. It is a cosmetic dentistry procedure, which involves different types of teeth-improving activities.
It is an optional, non insurance-covered process, which will help you:
a). To look better.
b). To feel better, as a smile makeover may resolve pain experienced
with biting or chewing, once your teeth are straightened up.
What Is Improved?
A smile makeover is a procedure, which involves each aspect of your appearance in order not only to make you smile perfect, but to make your whole look change for good. Smile makeover is something that is done according to you taste and your unique considerations.
What exactly are the problems, you experience? The complete smile makeover might help you get rid of many factors and improve a lot of details and aspects, including the following:
- The color of your teeth
If you have the old-fashioned fillings, made of silver or gold or amalgam,
the smile makeover gives you a chance to change them and to apply natural-colored
composite materials, so that your teeth will be unspotted. Teeth whitening
can improve the color of the whole smile, too. Teeth color is a very
important thing to consider, why applying bridges, veneers and crowns;
it is the aspect that your dentist will consider.
Remember, that if your teeth are in the poor condition, if they are
dark or spotted, that makes you look older. White smile, on the contrary,
gives you back your youth. That is why the color, your dentist chooses
for your future smile, is considered and evaluated according to the
shade of your hair and your skin tone. The balance between the natural
look and white bright color is not an easy thing to find, but if your
dentist is a professional, than you will get to the result you need
pretty quick.
- Fill the gaps
If gaps and spacing between the teeth is a familiar problem for you, the smile makeover is a good chance to correct these defects. Teeth are aligned with the help of braces or invisalign and your smile becomes as even as it never was!
- A tooth missing
If you have a missing tooth, that makes your smile look worth; moreover, it can damage your health by causing teeth decay and problems on biting and chewing. But nowadays missing teeth can easily be replaced by the dentures, bridges or dental implants.
- Finding the harmony
Gummy smile is a very unpleasant thing – it looks neither esthetical, nor healthy. Also, the smile, which gives out uneven teeth, is a problem. Finding harmony is what your dentist should concentrate on in such a case. Shaping your teeth and making each of them perfect will improve your look greatly.
- Shaping of the face
When the person becomes older, his face looses its elasticity, and its lines become less defined. There are the procedures, among the existing, which help to erase the marks of aging - oral maxillofacial surgery is among them as well as orthodontics.
You will be thoroughfully examined by your dentist before the procedure, so that you will set the number of steps needed for the improving of your smile. Usually it takes more than two procedures; though the list of them is really big. It consists of, but is not limited by:
- teeth whitening;
- veneers;
- composite bonding;
- oral maxillofacial surgery;
- gummy smile reduction;
- dental crowns;
- orthodontics.
Evaluating Your Smile.
Besides the general appearance of your smile, which depends on the part of your intraoral area, consisting of the upper and lower teeth that show when you grin, there are several aspects, that your dentist will have to consider. They are:
- The length of the teeth
Long even teeth are considered to be a sign of youthful appearance. Aging process make the teeth wear out and become shorter. The cure for that is remolding and lengthening the front central teeth with the help of veneers. Also, the laser technologies can be used in order to reshape you gum line. The periodontist can lengthen your crowns, if it is necessary. Remember, that your whole appearance might depend on the shape of your teeth – for instance, if your face is round, you may try to change your teeth shape by the long and square one. It will make your cheeks look thinner.
- Teeth proportions
It is a necessary step for the dentist to find out, whether your teeth are in a right proportion with each other. The proper form of the smile is considered to be the following: two front teeth are dominant and their length relate to their width as 5 to 4. This simple proportion shapes the look of your smile, and according to it the other teeth can be shaped to reach the proper balance.
- Smile line
In your imagination, draw the outer line, which will shape your upper teeth contour. Well, now, in the proper and perfect smile this line should be the same as the line of your lower lip when you smile. This factor shows, whether you need teeth lengthening, and if yes – to what extent.
- Texture
The texture and characterization of your teeth is a thing that a professional
should consider. Playing with textures, colors and other aspects, the
dentist can provide you with the “magazine cover look”, that you dreamed
of. An expert can create a more masculine or feminine look, he can cut
of the age and make your smile young forever.
The Aftercare and Hygiene
Once you have your smile shaped and overdone, you will need to spend some time and effort to help it last as long, as you want. Oral hygiene is essential at this point! Also, you might need to do some procedures a couple more times – for example, teeth’s whitening has to renewed several times. The veneers usually last longer – up to 15 years, but then or before that time they might crack and will need a replacement.
Gummy smile improvement procedure is the thing that might need to
be corrected over the time, too.
Besides the maintenance you perform yourself, there are aspects, which
effect the duration of your perfect smile’s life. For instance, the
level of proficiency of your dentist and lab technician, the materials
they use. Discuss these things before your surgery or procedure in order
to be sure, that once you get a Hollywood smile, you won’t loose it!
The Process of Smile Makeover
Before you and your dentist work out a plan for your smile makeover,
you have your oral health to be checked. Your dentist will perform a
total check of your teeth’s, occlusion’s and gums’ condition to find
out, whether you are a candidate for the smile makeover or you need
other cosmetic dental procedure. If during the check your dentist finds
out any problems, like malocclusion (misaligned bite), you will need
to go the treatment beforehand.
Now, the treatment for the wrong bite touches all the teeth and because
of that it is called a full mouth reconstruction. It takes a long time,
but the results are always satisfying. During this procedure, some parts
of smile makeover can be done, including the making your teeth line
look more even.
Preview of Your Smile Makeover
The essential part of your smile makeover is a preview of the future result. Cosmetic dentists nowadays use different technologies to present you the look of your mouth afterwards.
For example, the waxen model of your teeth can be made while the process of veneers and crowns making. Temporaries also can give you the idea of the expected outcome. This is very comfortable – first of all, you’ll get prepared to your potential look and second of all on this stage of the process you and your dentist can still do some minor changes, so you’ll look even more perfect.
The other technologies, which might be used to show you the upcoming changes, are the following:
1. Dental Imaging Software.
Digital and imaging techniques are greatly developed nowadays. Dentists often use them to consult and discuss your future look with the lab technician. But as any other ways, this kind of software doesn’t give you a hundred percent corresponding image. It only gives you the idea of how you may look like; the result itself might differ from the picture in some details.
2. Before and After Pics.
These pictures can give useful information about the proficiency of your dentist and the quality of his work. These are the simple pictures of the previous patients, taken before and after the procedure of smile makeover.
3. Dental Study Models.
Your teeth impressions can be made in the laboratory from the plaster.
They can be changed and molded into any shape to give you the idea about
the reformations, which are going to take place later on. Using these
models, the dentist can show you each detail, which will be changed.
Dental laboratory technicians also use these models in order to fabricate
makeover materials, such as veneers and crowns.
Also, digital technologies may be used in the lab. In such cases, you
might be provided with digital scans and material instead of traditional
impressions.
4. Composite Material Imitator.
Dental composite material can be used to reproduce the look of your smile makeover. The resin material can be temporary bonded to your teeth, so you will not only see, but feel the difference. Also it might be useful in the case of applying veneers. Temporary mockups will not impact your teeth once they are removed.
Cost of Your Smile Makeover
There are several factors affecting the price of your smile makeover.
1. The duration of the treatment.
2. The location, where it is performed.
3. Your level and type of dental insurance.
4. The overall state of your teeth health.
5. Extent of your plan.
6. The dentist, who performs the procedure, the level of his proficiency
and the proficiency of lab technicians.
The smile makeover might include some processes, which will influence
your oral health; now, those are possibly covered by your insurance.
But if your problems are severe, it will cost more.
See more info:
- How to Choose Cosmetic Dentist