Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Cosmetic Dentistry”
Often times when patients are unhappy with their smile, they express interest in veneers like Hollywood actors and actresses. Boston’s own Ben Affleck famously was forced to have veneers placed before his role in Armageddon.
While veneers will deliver incredible transformations of patients’ smiles, other approaches and tools can often have very compelling results, while maintaining the integrity and unique character of your own teeth.
Our patient Jenny (not her real name) …
Patients present to our practice with accumulated years of dental changes and issues. In our practice, we first seek to understand the baseline conditions that led to a patient’s current oral health. Next we proceed with steps to mitigate and/or reverse those conditions, to both establish a long term functional system that is functionally sound, and also to improve the patient’s esthetic appearance.
Kids aren’t the only ones to lose teeth. Adults can suffer tooth loss for various reasons, including trauma/accidents, gum disease, tooth decay and bruxism (grinding), as well as severely misaligned teeth. A lost tooth isn’t just bad for your smile, it is bad for your overall oral health. Losing one tooth actually makes it more likely that you’ll eventually lose more teeth … because the empty space results in increased reliance on the surrounding teeth, which can lead to fracture from overuse. You’re also more likely to develop infections with the newly empty space in your gums.
If you find yourself with a new space in your mouth,…
In situations with spacing issues between the teeth, there are typically two alternatives for treatment. The spaces can be closed orthodontically or with some type of restorative material, such as bonding, veneers or crowns. Frequently, a combination of these treatment modalities is needed to reach an ideal end-result.
Downstairs from our spa-like waiting room and airy treatment rooms, there’s magic happening. Enter our milling lab, where the power of technology meets the human touch of artistry.
Four laboratory technicians work as a team to create the foundation for the beautiful dentistry that we are able to produce upstairs. Putting their combined decades of experience to work, they create wax mockups to envision the final result that we are looking to create. We transfer the beautiful rendering to the patient’s mouth for a perfect end product. They are truly artists.
While most dental practices rely on remote milling labs across the country to create dental prosthetics, …
