Preston Dentist Discusses Smile Makeover Basics

Everyone recognizes the importance of a smile. Smiles are instinctive; a common sign of friendliness a beautiful smile brings instant confidence. That even new-born baby recognizes. An attractive smile goes a long way in your social life as well as your working environment. Yet too often, our teeth deny us the benefits of a beautiful smile. They ruin our looks through stains, discoloration, overlapping, crowding, gaps and chips. Fortunately, with a little help from smile makeover dentist and cosmetic dentistry techniques all of these problems can be fixed.

Your smile makeover surgery can consist of several advanced types of different cosmetic dental procedures that boost the beauty and appearance of ones smile, correcting almost any problem such as:

Twisted, Chipped and broken teeth, Missing teeth causing gaps and finally Stained and discoloured teeth. When considering the colour of your teeth, keep in mind that dark teeth may suggest an aged mouth. 


A well-shaped smile comprised of bright, white teeth gives the impression of a youthful appearance. Just as every person is different, everyone has different dental needs. The degree of the complexity of each of these treatments will depend on the individual cases requirement. The diversity of a Smile Makeover in Preston can vary from a simple teeth whitening to full mouth rehabilitation. Apart from the positioning of the teeth, other factors which will be taken into consideration are patients skin tone, hair colour, lip line, and the alignment of the jaws.

Smile makeovers are classically created with the use of porcelain or ceramic veneers and, metal-free crowns such as Lava or Empress. Veneers are thin shells of fired porcelain that are placed on the front surfaces of the teeth offering a natural looking smile. They provide a much more conservative approach to changing a tooth's colour, size, or shape. Porcelain veneers can mask undesirable defects, such as teeth stained by tetracycline, by an injury, or as a result of a root-canal procedure, and are ideal for masking discoloured fillings in front teeth.

Veneers teeth also allow the cosmetic dentist to dramatically change the length, width and shape of a tooth. Restoring teeth to their natural beauty, veneers are also stain resistant, creating an enduring white, bright straight smile. Porcelain crowns and onlays offer the same advantages.

Once your smile makeover dentist and you have determined the "style" of the desired smile, the cosmetic dentist will take some impressions of your existing teeth. That impression is sent to the ceramist with the precise instructions of what the smile should look like. The laboratory then creates a wax-up model of how the enhanced smile or repaired teeth will look. The patient and dentist review the wax up and either make changes or give the lab approval to proceed. From the wax up, the lab creates the patient's new "cosmetic teeth", typically a combination of veneers, crowns, inlays and onlays made of porcelain.

Once the trial wax up smile is approved, the dentist prepares the teeth, taking new impression, and fits him or her with temporaries (a temporary version of the "new smile".) Few weeks later when the porcelain restorations are ready, the temporaries are removed and the porcelain restorations are bonded to the teeth.

Although each dentist employs a different set of technologies to help him, most experienced cosmetic dentists use an intraoral Camera or a 3D imaging system to projects the magnified images of your teeth on a monitor to help them diagnose the treatment needed for each tooth.

The result of Preston cosmetic dentistry smile makeover is experienced and visualized immediately after the treatment. You smile is straight, white and even in some cases smile makeover may resolve dental pain experienced with biting or chewing.

A sparkling smile represents natural beauty, youth, and energy. Experienced cosmetic dentists in Preston can help you achieve the smile of your dreams - the smile that shows the world you love life. Everyone deserves to receive quality dental care in a pristine atmosphere. Dental care no longer has to be a luxury and can be incorporated into your life.