A beautiful smile has a dramatic effect on your overall appearance and we all love to flaunt a million dollar smile. Unfortunatelyall of us are not blessed with sparkling white, well aligned teeth and here comes cosmetic dentistry. It is a branch of dentistry that focuses on enhancing the aesthetic appearance of your teeth, improving their functions as well. Dentists use a wide array of advanced tools and techniques to enhance the appeal of your smile. Cosmetic dentistry can treat teeth that are chipped or discolored. It is also effective to reshape or restore whites, altering their length or closing spaces. Get a brief overview of some of the common procedures used in cosmetic dentistry.
 
Teeth Whitening

Over time teeth become discolored or stained owing to awful habits like smoking or consuming excessive beverages like tea or coffee. Certain medications also develop light greyish yellow shades on tooth. Whitening is the most popular cosmetic dental procedure to improve the shade of your whites. For whitening the dentist makes custom mouthpiece tray to hold the whitening gel that reaches your teeth. The process can be carried out both at office or at home. Most tooth whitening products are peroxide-based and unlikely to cause any side effect. Many dentists also use LED bleaching action to whiten your teeth.
 
Bonding

Bonding is one of the least expensive and easiest of cosmetic dental procedures. It uses the application of tooth-colored composite resin, highly effective to treat chipped, stained, decayed or fractured tooth. It is also used to close spaces between teeth or to change the shape of your whites. Bonding material is also used as tooth-colored fillings to treat small cavities. During the procedure the tooth-colored resin material is applied on the tooth surface. An ultraviolet light is then used to harden the material, which is then further trimmed and shaped properly to get the natural look. The procedure takes around 30 to 60 minutes per tooth to complete.
 
Dental Crowns
 
Dental crown is used to cover or “cap” a damaged tooth. It is also used to improve the shape, appearance or alignment oftooth. A crown is recommended by a dentist to:

●    Replace a large filling where there is not enough teeth remaining
●    To hold a dental bridge in place
●    Protect a weak tooth from being fractured
●    Cover a stained or poorly shaped tooth
●    Cover a dental implant
●    Cover a tooth that has undergone root canal treatment

Dental Bridges

Dental bridge is comprised of two crowns for the teeth present on either side of the gap. Bridges can:

●    Restore your ability to chew and speak properly
●    Restore your smile
●    Improve the contour of your face
●    Prevent remaining teeth from being drifted out of position

Veneers

Dental veneers are super thin custom-made shells of tooth-colored materials. Veneers are used to cover front surface of teeth to improve the appearance. Made from porcelain or resin composite materials dental veneers are used to fix:

●    Discolored or stained teeth
●    Chipped or broken teeth
●    Uneven, misaligned or irregularly shaped teeth
●    Teeth with gaps between them

The condition of your teeth will determine the procedure that will suit you the most. However to get the desirable result of any of the dental treatment service procedure, it is best to get in touch with an experienced cosmetic dentist.