How Aesthetic Dentistry Can Improve Both Your Smile and Your Oral Health

Aesthetic dentistry is a branch that focuses mainly on improving the way your smile looks. While its primary focus is solely cosmetic, patients often end up enjoying therapeutic benefits as well. For example, a crown can be used to cover up a severely decayed or discolored tooth to improve its appearance. The crown will also protect the tooth against bite forces and irritants in the mouth. The capabilities of aesthetic dentistry have expanded in recent years, and any smile can now be transformed into a beautiful one.

Improving your smile and oral health with aesthetic dentistry

Cosmetic dentistry can be used to fix issues like stains, deformities, or damage to a tooth. These repairs are done using materials that can be matched with the color of the patient’s teeth, so any repairs made look natural. Let us take a closer look at some of the ways a dentist can improve your oral health and the way your teeth look using cosmetic dental treatments:

• Dental implants: These are metal rods that are inserted into a patient’s jaw to replace missing teeth roots. When a tooth comes out, its root comes out with it, and the bone tissues around the socket that once held it in place begin to break down. Replacing a missing tooth with an implant helps to prevent this bone tissue loss. The implant replaces the patient’s missing tooth, restoring how their teeth look, and it helps to preserve their facial structures
• Crowns: These are versatile restorations that provide cosmetic and restorative purposes. Crowns can be used to fix issues like broken, deformed, stained, and chipped teeth. The restoration restores the appearance of the tooth, and it helps to protect it against further damage. A tooth that is being covered with a crown because it is discolored might not need that protection, but a broken tooth certainly does
• Orthodontic treatments: Aesthetic dentistry also tackles issues that affect the alignment of a patient’s teeth. Poorly aligned teeth can ruin the appearance of any smile, and they also put a person’s oral health at risk. Crooked and otherwise misaligned teeth are generally more difficult to keep clean since some teeth might overlap others. Straightening poorly aligned teeth improves the way a person’s smile looks, and it protects them against tooth decay
• Cosmetic bonding: Teeth bonding is a non-invasive procedure that has many uses. It has emerged as an improved way to address tooth decay since it can be color-matched with the patient’s teeth. That is a huge contrast from traditional metal fillings, which have a dark gray color. These composites are made from mixtures of plastics and glass, and they harden when exposed to a curing light. Repairing a tooth with a composite does not require making any permanent alterations to the tooth, which means the patient is free to explore other options that might emerge in the future

Improve your oral health while fixing your smile

Want a more attractive smile? Give us a call or visit our Springfield Township clinic to set up an appointment with our dentist.

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