Our Carrollton cosmetic dentistry services include porcelain veneers, which are a great way to achieve a new look. Covering your teeth with a thin ceramic shell can cover stains, cracks, gaps, and more.
Placing veneers takes a few visits. First, we learn what you hope to cover up and how you want your teeth to look. Once we understand what you want and confirm that veneers can achieve those results, we will make a plan. Then, we prepare your teeth for the placement of the veneers and take an impression of your teeth. This impression ensures the veneers will fit flawlessly on your natural teeth.
We send the impression to a dental lab to create your porcelain veneers, which usually takes one to two weeks. We will place beautiful temporary restorations during that time to solve many of your concerns.
At your final appointment, we bond the veneers into place, ensuring a precise fit for optimum comfort.
When providing a full-mouth restoration, we are focused on both the cosmetic and the reconstructive side of things—we want you to have as much of your mouth function and look restored to normal. It takes planning—planning that our detail-oriented dentists and team members are equipped to do for you.
In all of our Carrollton cosmetic dentistry services, we offer individualized dental care completely tailored to you. This is especially important in a full-mouth restoration case, as no two mouths are the same. Schedule an appointment so we can learn more about your unique situation and provide you with some options for how our Carrollton cosmetic dentistry services can help you achieve better oral health, function, and a brighter smile.
You may need a crown lengthening procedure before placing a dental crown. When one of your teeth needs to be fixed, sometimes there isn’t enough tooth above the gum line to support the filling or crown. If this is the case, our Carrollton cosmetic dentistry services include crown lengthening to reveal a greater amount of the tooth so the crown can fully restore the tooth.
Crown lengthening involves removing and reshaping gum tissue and bone from around the roots of the teeth. Before the procedure, we’ll review your medical history and get current X-rays. If you need a crown immediately, we will place a temporary crown to protect you until the day of the surgery.
Everyone’s gums are different—genetics play a role, as do the use of some prescription medications. Sometimes, an excess of gum tissue can make teeth appear smaller than they should. In other cases, gums may recede or shrink, exposing more of your tooth. In both cases, your smile suffers, but your gums are also a place where bacteria like to gather, so the benefits of Carrollton cosmetic dentistry aren’t always solely cosmetic.
Gum contouring is a great way to improve not only your smile but also your oral health. Many people with a “gummy smile,” an excess of gum tissue, feel uncomfortable with their smile and may not know there is a relatively easy cosmetic dentistry procedure that can help. Gum contouring is a perfect way to even out your gum line, revealing a brighter smile.
Tooth bonding can be used to cover up stained teeth, cracks, or gaps in teeth or as a filling after a cavity has been removed. A composite resin is applied to the tooth or teeth you want to cover. It’s molded to the teeth held on by an adhesive gel.
Once the resin is molded and placed, an LED light is used to harden the resin. Once the resin is hardened, it’s polished to a shiny white finish, leaving you with a straighter, whiter smile. Tooth bonding can last over 10 years, making it a simple, affordable Carrollton cosmetic dentistry procedure to improve your smile.
Have you noticed that the surface of your teeth is uneven in some areas of your mouth? Perhaps a particular tooth has an uneven top or is significantly taller than the other teeth around it, making you a little self-conscious about your smile. If you can relate, our Carrollton cosmetic dentistry services can help.
Tooth recontouring is a procedure that can eliminate minor imperfections by changing your teeth’s enamel. Our dentists will use optimal means to reshape some of your tooth enamel carefully. Removing tooth enamel can help even the length of a few teeth or even out the top surface of one tooth—giving you a straighter smile. This Carrollton cosmetic dentistry procedure is permanent and instant—tooth recontouring can be done in a short appointment at our office. It’s also painless because no nerves are located in the tooth enamel.
The reality is that even if you have excellent oral health, teeth can quickly become stained from coffee, wine, food, and tobacco use. With a whitening treatment through our Carrollton cosmetic dentistry, you can restore the natural color of your teeth or even go a little whiter.
In our teeth whitening process, the first thing we do is take an impression of your teeth. This is an essential step because it separates tooth whitening at the dentist from over-the-counter solutions. With this impression, you’ll indeed have a custom-fitted mouth tray to eliminate leaks that can cause uneven whitening and irritation to your gums. Then, you will take home the Colgate Optic White gel and your tray. Over a few days, you’ll fill the tray with the whitening gel and briefly put it over your teeth. You can expect your smile to be four to eight shades brighter at the end of treatment. And the best part is, you can use these whitening trays repeatedly!
