People often talk to our team about ways to improve the beauty of their smiles, from removing teeth stains to reshaping their teeth. With cosmetic dentistry, our team can tackle your esthetic imperfections and offer optimal results, sometimes in as little as one visit. In today’s blog, your Leawood, KS, dentist talks about improving smiles with cosmetic dentistry.
Scheduling Your Cosmetic Consultation
When you have concerns with the appearance of your smile, then you should schedule a consultation with our team. We will talk to you about your hopes for your smile, and then we will conduct a detailed examination to assess the cause and severity of your cosmetic imperfections. Our team can then plan treatment with cosmetic dentistry to address these concerns and boost the beauty of your smile. For some, we could offer improvement in only one visit, while for others we could offer a more extensive makeover to address complex concerns with the appearance of the teeth. Your smile is never too far gone, so reach out to our team to start your journey to an attractive smile. You deserve to feel confident when you laugh and smile!
Teeth Whitening Options
Do you have stained teeth? Then you could benefit from teeth whitening. With these treatment options, we help brighten your smile by several shades. If you need results in a short timeframe, such as before a job interview, first date, or big event, then talk to our team about our in-office teeth whitening treatment. With this option, we will apply a special protective coating to your lips and gums, and then place a powerful bleaching gel onto the surfaces of your teeth. We activate it with a light, which then brightens the smile by several shades. The entire process only takes one visit!
Our team can also use cosmetic dentistry to take on more stubborn stains. With our take-home kit, we can send you home with a custom-made set of plastic trays and multiple plastic syringes of bleaching gel. Once you return home, you will add gel to the trays and wear them for a specific amount of time each day, usually about an hour. This is done for a period of one to two weeks, and can address more severe stains and for some, offer teeth up to eight shades brighter! The trays ensure even results across your smile and prevent the gel from being diluted by saliva. You can keep the trays and any remaining gel for touch-ups in the months to come.
Bonding and Contouring
Our team can also provide cosmetic dentistry in one visit. With dental bonding, we apply the same composite resin we use in our tooth-colored fillings, only now we use this to improve smile beauty instead of treating decay. The material can be shaded to bleed with your smile. With bonding, we can address permanent teeth stains by masking them, fill in black triangle spaces and gaps between the teeth, and address misshapen or damaged teeth in one sitting.
With contouring, we take a different approach. Our team will instead sand and buff the outer structure to address cosmetic imperfections. For example, we can smooth away grooves, pits, and rough patches in the teeth. Our team can dull jagged, sharp, or pointed tooth structures. We can correct the appearance of chipped teeth and misshapen or overly large portions as well.
Invisalign®
If you have dental misalignment, we can offer a cosmetic alternative to braces. With Invisalign®, we will create a series of custom plastic aligners that you wear to correct your uneven smile. Each set in the series is worn daily for 20 to 22 hours, over a period of two weeks. You then wear the next set and continue the process, with proper alignment possible in as little as one year.
Porcelain Veneers
Our porcelain veneers alone can offer some patients a smile makeover. These are thin and custom-made restorations crafted from lifelike porcelain and shaded to blend with your smile. They instantly reshape your teeth and mask common issues with them, so you have a transformed smile in just two sittings.
If you have any questions about cosmetic dentistry, then reach out to our team to discuss possible treatment options.
Schedule a Visit for Cosmetic Dentistry
We offer treatments to help your smile shine, and to help boost bite function and oral health too! To learn more about improving the beauty of your smile, or to schedule your next visit with us, call Dreem Dentistry in Leawood, KS, today at (913)681-5500.
