Cosmetic Treatments

TEETH WHITENING

Teeth are stained by the foods and drinks we consume. Smoking further stains teeth and the natural bright, white shade becomes darkened. Teeth whitening is a successful and simple method of lightening the colour of your teeth. The degree of whiteness achieved will vary from patient to patient and with the type of bleaching process chosen.

Home Whitening
A custom made mouth tray is created. A whitening gel is placed in the tray which you then wear for just 1 hour each day. 

Results are normally seen over 2 weeks.

PORCELAIN VENEERS

If your front teeth are stained, chipped, or malaligned, veneers will give you a good life-like appearance with minimum tooth adjustment. A veneer is a porcelain facing on the front of your teeth usually your top teeth, it is just like a false finger nail.

Veneers are made out of porcelain and are used mainly for aesthetic reasons. Veneers make teeth look natural and healthy, and because they are very thin and are held in place by a special strong bond (rather like super-glue) very little preparation of the tooth is needed. Porcelain veneers can improve the colour, shape and position of teeth. A precise shade of porcelain can be chosen to give the right colour to improve a single discoloured or stained tooth or to lighten front teeth (usually the upper ones) generally. Veneers can also be used to close small gaps, when orthodontics (braces) are not suitable. If one tooth is slightly out of position, a veneer can sometimes be fitted to bring it into line with the others.

WHITE FILLINGS

If the  decay is not too serious, our cosmetic dentist will remove all the decay and restore the tooth with a white (tooth coloured) filling. Our dentists can safely replace silver amalgam fillings with white tooth coloured fillings.

Dental decay happens when the enamel and dentine of a tooth become softened by acid attack, producing a cavity (hole).

COMPOSITE VENEERS

Composite veneers are similar to porcelain veneers in that they are thin and lifelike and improve the appearance of your teeth. 

They also have some advantages, namely:

• Completed in 1 visit only- as no lab is need to make these. 
• Reduced cost as no lab needed and shorter time. 
• Often no preparation of teeth is needed so no numbing required. 
• Easily repaired if these were to be damaged.

TEETH RESHAPING

Lengthen the appearance of your teeth by reshaping your gums.

This can be either the removal of small unsightly areas of teeth to give them a more pleasant aesthetic appearance or in the case of bonding the addition of small amounts of resin composite material to teeth to improve the appearance. 

Both of these are usually completed simply with no numbness needed. The results can be stunning effective.