Losing a tooth can be embarrassing, leading to negative consequences for the health and appearance of your smile. What happens if you lose a tooth? In addition to poor nutritional intake and cosmetic issues, tooth loss can increase the risk of losing additional teeth or even misalignment. Fortunately, there are plenty of options to restore smiles to full function and beauty.
How Do You Restore Chipped Teeth?
Have you chipped a tooth? Perhaps you were playing a game outside with friends or bit into a piece of hard candy, either way you now have a broken tooth. In order to ensure a healthy and attractive smile, you may benefit from restoration. How do you restore chipped teeth?
FAQs: Do You Need Cosmetic Dentistry?
How do you feel about your smile? When you look in the mirror, do you see a beautiful smile or one plagued with esthetic issues? With cosmetic dentistry, we can use a number of comfortable and noninvasive techniques to improve the beauty of the teeth and gums. Do you need cosmetic dentistry?
5 Tips for Achieving a Beautiful Smile
Do you want to obtain a beautiful smile? Improving the appearance of your smile is possible with routine oral healthcare. By practicing good oral hygiene, you reduce the severity of teeth stains and combat common health problems, such as tooth decay or gum disease. Let’s look at 5 tips for achieving a beautiful smile.
5 Tips for Improving Oral Health
The best route to a beautiful smile involves improving your oral health. With a simple preventive approach to dental care, you can reduce your risk of developing common dental problem, such as tooth decay and gum disease. Let’s look at five simple tips for improving your oral health.
Beautify Your Smile With Gum Contouring: Q&A
Do you like the way your smile looks for the most part but you wish less of your gum tissue showed while you smiled? Perhaps your teeth look to be the same length but by taking a look at your entire smile, they just don’t seem balanced. Or, maybe your teeth look quite short, so your smile does not seem to complement your facial features. Whatever the problem, gum contouring may address your esthetic concerns, so you can achieve a stunning smile you feel happy to show off to those around you. Wondering what to expect from contouring? Learn more with the following Q&A session:
Gum Contouring: Q&A
Question: Are my teeth just too short?
Answer: In some cases, your teeth look “squatty” or too small for your face because of excessive gum tissue. By removing some of the tissue, we will reveal a greater amount of each tooth. Though your teeth remain the same size, they will simply appear longer for a smile that harmonizes more beautifully with your appearance.
Question: Are my teeth uneven?
Answer: For teeth that are even across your tooth line but that look unbalanced, you may suffer from an uneven gumline. Rather than removing a uniform amount of gum tissue over each tooth, we will remove strategic portions to sculpt a gumline that reveals an even amount of each tooth. The result will include improved consistency and symmetry.
Question: What is gum contouring, exactly?
Answer: Contouring is a surgical procedure. After speaking with you about your concerns and evaluating your smile, we will create a customized plan to remove small amounts of gum tissue. We will thoroughly numb your gum tissue and then carefully create incisions to re-sculpt your gumline. You will need to follow specific instructions for recovery, such as eating soft foods and treating your gumline delicately. The finished result will include a beautiful, improved smile.
ABOUT YOUR RIVERSIDE DENTISTS:
With offices throughout Riverside Country, including Corona, Temecula, and Moreno Valley, Riverside Dental Group is happy to provide advanced general, cosmetic, and restorative dentistry services to patients of all ages. To learn more, or to schedule a consultation, call our office today at (951) 689-5031.
Quiz: How Do I Brighten My Teeth?
How do you feel about your smile? Do you feel self-conscious due to unsightly teeth stains? Over time, bacteria, smoking, certain foods and drinks, and other factors can lead to embarrassing discoloration. In order to combat your teeth stains, you may need treatment. How do you brighten your teeth? With professional teeth whitening and good oral care habits, you can enjoy am improved smile.
What’s Your Tooth Loss Pattern? Find Your Prosthetic
Choosing dental prosthetics for tooth loss can cause patients to feel overwhelmed. We offer a variety of prosthetics, each with a different set of benefits. Beyond that, only certain teeth replacement solutions work for certain patterns of tooth loss. Rather than attempting to wade through the details, while connecting the dots all on your own, we have organized prosthetics according to particular tooth loss configurations. By identifying the pattern that matches your smile, you can quickly consider your options, which will guide you toward achieving the complete smile you desire. Learn more:
If You Are Missing…
One Tooth Or Multiple Teeth Side-By-Side
Missing one tooth? Missing two or three teeth in a row? If so, you may wish to consider a dental bridge. This prosthetic is composed of a series of lifelike artificial teeth. A dental crown on either end will rest permanently over the anchor teeth sitting on either side of your smile opening. Replacing your missing teeth are pontics attached between the crowns to “bridge the gap” in your smile.
One Tooth or Several Teeth, Not Necessarily Side-By-Side
If your tooth loss pattern includes one or multiple teeth in nearly any pattern (neighboring or spread apart), partial dentures offer a versatile solution. They include a minimal amount of high-grade pink acrylic to represent palate and gum tissue, metal clasps that fit over your teeth for stability, and beautiful white replacement teeth. The partial is removable and includes openings for your natural teeth, resulting in a complete smile.
All Of Your Teeth
Patients suffering from complete tooth loss will find a wonderful solution with complete dentures. A denture is a removable, single device composed of pink “gums” and white replacement teeth. They are lightweight and attractive, worn over your top or bottom dental ridge. Dentures rely on the natural suction of your gums and achieve additional support with adhesives. You can quickly restore a full arch of teeth with a denture.
Any Configuration Of Missing Teeth
You may replace one tooth, teeth side by side, teeth scattered across an arch, or all of your teeth with dental implants. They replace your roots and are topped with a dental crown. They may also support partial or complete dentures, offering additional support.
ABOUT YOUR CORONA DENTIST:
With offices throughout Riverside Country, including Corona, Temecula, and Moreno Valley, Riverside Dental Group is happy to provide advanced general, cosmetic, and restorative dentistry services to patients of all ages. To learn more, or to schedule a consultation, call our office today at (951) 689-5031.
Quiz: What Happens If I Lose a Tooth?
According to studies conducted by the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, 69% of adults between the ages of 35 and 44 will lose at least one permanent tooth. What happens if you lose a tooth? How do you replace a lost tooth? There are actually a number of procedures available to replace missing teeth.
A Brand New Smile with Porcelain Veneers
There may be ways in which you wish you could improve your smile, but you aren’t exactly sure how. Or, you may have so many cosmetic concerns that you believe the smile you want is just out of reach. For many patients who once shared similar concerns, porcelain veneers have been able to provide the smiles they want with a surprisingly minimal amount of preparation. If you want a brand new smile, then porcelain veneers may also be the answer you are looking for.
What Needs Renewing?
Although dental health issues like tooth decay and gum disease affect the majority of people, such conditions can usually be prevented with excellent dental hygiene. With cosmetic dental issues, however, that may not always be the case. Despite the care you put into your smile, things like teeth stains, chips, cracks, and more can still have a drastic influence on its appearance. Common concerns that porcelain veneers can help with often include;
- Stains that are too intense for teeth-whitening treatment
- Slightly cracked teeth (unless a dental crown is required, or the tooth’s interior is exposed)
- Too much space between teeth
- Unequally-sized teeth
- And more
How Porcelain Veneers Can Help
A dental veneer is a small, wafer-thin shell of porcelain shaped like the front surface of your tooth. Though thin enough to fit onto the front of your teeth with minimal preparation, veneers are still durable enough to withstand your bite. They are also impressively lifelike, as the porcelain is semi-translucent and reflects light just the like enamel around your teeth. After carefully sculpting the enamel from the front of your teeth, we will take careful measurements that a skilled technician will use to craft your veneers. Once they are in place, you can care for your new smile by brushing and flossing at least twice a day, preferably with a non-abrasive toothpaste. You should also attend a dental appointment as often as recommended for routine care and maintenance.
ABOUT YOUR RIVERSIDE DENTISTS:
With offices throughout Riverside Country, including Corona, Temecula, and Moreno Valley, Riverside Dental Group is happy to provide advanced general, cosmetic, and restorative dentistry services to patients of all ages. To learn more, or to schedule a consultation, call our office today at (951) 689-5031.
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