Your Confidence And Cosmetic Dentistry
Cosmetic treatments can not only help you have a more attractive smile, but can give you a confidence boost as well!
Cosmetic dentistry is more popular than ever. Promoted by a range of celebrities, there can be few people now that are not aware of these treatments that can transform your teeth and your smile. Once largely the preserve of the young and the beautiful (and the rich), these treatments are now used more widely across all ages for a variety of reasons.
While the predominant reason for undergoing these treatments is to improve the appearance, many of our Acton patients that have had their teeth whitened or have had dental implants placed, say that they have discovered an increase in confidence in all areas of their life, whether that be socially or in business. From making your date more successful to impressing at an interview with your welcoming smile, our smile makeover treatments could change your life for the better.
In today’s Acton Vale Dental Centre blog, we are going to take a look at how some of these procedures can give your confidence a boost.
Teeth whitening and veneers
The most widely used procedure that we carry out is tooth whitening. It is non-invasive and one of the most affordable cosmetic treatments available. It also produces quick results and transforms your dull smile into a much whiter one in a very short space of time. If you have become aware that you are more reluctant to smile in social situations due to your discoloured teeth, this could be the procedure that helps you to feel more confident about smiling again.
Not only does smiling with a whiter set of teeth look better, but it can also improve your chances of success. Studies have shown that we tend to judge others in the first few seconds of meeting them. They have also shown that a warm smile is one of the things that we look for when making those subconscious decisions whether we like someone or not. A friendly white smile then, could be just the thing to help you to find the partner or job of your dreams.
If you are one of those people whose teeth have discoloured heavily over the years, it may be that a teeth whitening procedure will not manage to whiten your teeth as much as you would like. The effects of smoking, for example, can do this. In this situation we may recommend that porcelain veneers are fitted instead. These replace the discoloured front surface of your teeth and provide a long lasting solution to a stained and discoloured smile.
Dental implant stability
Another issue that can cause a real crisis of confidence often occurs in those who have lost teeth and had them replaced with dentures. While modern dentures are more aesthetically pleasing than in the past, the issue of their stability remains. Some users find that their dentures move around in their mouth over time. This not only sometimes causes discomfort from sore gums due to them rubbing as they move, but can also be embarrassing too. Dentures that become unstable can sometimes move around at inopportune moments but can also affect speech as well. If either of these occur, there is a likelihood that wearers will feel more inclined not to get involved in conversation and may even shy away from social events altogether.
One of the main reasons for the instability of dentures is that when a tooth has been lost, the bone in that area is reabsorbed into the body and this slightly changes the shape of the face, causing the dentures not to fit as well as they used to do. The solution to this is to have dental implants fitted instead of dentures.
Our Acton dental implant dentists can provide you with a strong and stable set of replacement teeth, whether this is for an individual tooth, multiple teeth or even a full arch. The main feature of dental implants that makes them such a huge success, is that they not only replace the crown part of the tooth that is visible, but also replace the now missing root section with a screw like object that is secured into the jawbone, thereby providing a strong and stable anchor onto which the crown is attached. Providing that you take care of your new implants as instructed, you might expect fifteen years of service and often many more. With your new dental implants, you will feel much more confident about eating, speaking and smiling without fear of them becoming unstable in your mouth when you do so.
Orthodontics
Another issue which can cause a lack of confidence is when you have crooked teeth. Especially where this is significant, there is no ‘quick fix’ for this problem and while there are orthodontics available specifically for minor issues that may take just a few weeks to correct, many problems of crookedness require a much longer treatment period. To help make this a more comfortable and convenient process for our patients, we are pleased to provide Invisalign orthodontics which are removable when you eat and for cleaning the teeth. This helps people to opt to have their teeth straightened without the anxiety of having to wear very visible metal braces as used to be the case.
If you feel that your confidence could do with a bit of lift and that a whiter and more even smile would help you achieve this, please call the Acton Vale Dental Centre today on 020 8749 3267. We also offer a range of payment plans to enable you to spread the cost of any treatment that you receive.