Your smile can significantly impact how you feel regarding yourself. If your teeth are crooked, missing, discolored, or unevenly spaced, it may lead to self-consciousness, leading to avoiding smiling and interacting in front of others. 

But now, you do not have to hide your smile and live with these physical and mental disorders. You can take a Bismarck dental exam and determine if you need any treatment for your teeth and to improve your smile.

Cosmetic dentistry procedures to enhance your smile

• Enamel reshaping

It is also known as cosmetic contouring. It helps improve your teeth’s size and shape or fix small overlaps or gaps between them. If your teeth are long, your dentist will reduce their size by filing them down. Dental bonding will be applied to your teeth and sculpt them so that you achieve a more beautiful and even look. 

• Invisalign treatment

This treatment option is recommended for patients with overlapping, crooked, or misaligned teeth. Invisalign are clear braces that can help correct such dental problems and enhance the appearance of anyone’s smile–children or adults.

The treatment uses gentle pressure to shift crooked teeth to their correct position slowly. The advantages of Invisalign treatment over traditional braces are that they are easy to use, do not discomfort the patient, and the braces can be opened while brushing teeth or eating.  

• Veneers

If you have decayed, chipped, cracked, gapped, or discolored teeth, you will experience some sort of anxiety when you smile in front of other people.

Veneers are custom-made porcelain shells bonded to the surface of your natural teeth to cover the dental imperfections that will enhance your smile. They work best for poorly-shaped, stained, and naturally short teeth or those with gaps and moderate crookedness. 

• Dental implants

Dental implants improve your smile by removing the badly damaged or replacing the missing teeth. The treatment involved inserting a titanium rod below your gum line into your jaw bone. The implant fuses with the gum tissues as a stable and strong replacement tooth root. It allows your dentist to mount a dental bridge or crown to perform all the functions of natural teeth.

• Dental crowns and bridges

If you have tooth decay, broken, damaged, a weak tooth, or one or more missing teeth, you can consider having a dental bridge or crown. Your dentist will use this procedure to improve the size and shape of your teeth and protect the ones having large fillings or have undergone a root canal treatment.