Having a great smile is the best accessory. When you meet people, the first thing they notice isn’t your bag, or your shoes, or your hair – it’s your smile and your eyes.
Smiling with a beautiful smile encourages others to respond with a smile of their own and a surge of warm, generous feelings towards you. With good-looking teeth, life can seem a whole lot smoother, as interesting people and opportunities are drawn to you.
If you can’t smile confidently because you don’t have white, straight teeth, this can have the opposite effect of making you seem unhappy and unfriendly.
Unsatisfied with how your smile looks? Wondering how to get nice teeth?
As a cosmetic dentist in Southampton, Smilemakers could help you achieve the lovely teeth you’ve always wanted with a range of cosmetic dental treatments.
How to get beautiful teeth with cosmetic dentistry
Going to see a cosmetic dentist in Southampton isn’t just self-indulgent vanity. As described above, smiles are everyone’s most important tool of non-verbal communication.
Smiles can also be a way of assessing each other’s health, which is why a big smile with not-so-great-looking teeth might be off-putting. This may also be the reason why you want to hide your teeth if you don’t like the way your smile makes you look.
The good news is that cosmetic dentistry could help you improve your confidence and happiness by enhancing the appearance of your teeth.
Depending on the treatment or combination of treatments you would like, Smilemakers can:
Lighten the colour of your teeth to make them brighter
People expect teeth to be white, or nearly white, which can signify health and youth. So, when teeth are stained or full of dark fillings, it can be jarring to look at them.
You may have discoloured or stained teeth from consuming pigmented foods and drinks or smoking, or it may just be down to genetics. Whatever the cause, teeth whitening is the fastest, easiest way to greatly enhance your teeth and can make a huge difference to how they are perceived.
- Teeth Whitening – When you come to Smilemakers for teeth whitening in Southampton, we can offer power whitening in an hour, or give you a take-home whitening kit with bespoke gel trays made from impressions of your teeth that will take a couple of weeks to gradually lighten them.
- Invisible Fillings – White fillings can also provide a dramatic improvement. You can have old amalgam replaced with new, more durable white composites when they wear out and start to crack, or simply have all your dark amalgam fillings taken out and replaced with white fillings in Southampton.
- White Spot Treatment – Got permanent white spots or patches on your teeth? The revolutionary ICON treatment is available at Smilemakers. This involves using resin to infiltrate the pores of the discoloured area within the tooth, evening out the colour and strengthening the enamel at the same time.
Improve their size, shape, or other structural imperfections
In addition to having white teeth, smiles are also expected to be symmetrical. Having cracked or chipped teeth can make a smile look uneven and less attractive.
If your teeth are healthy, but you want to cover aesthetic imperfections, such as chips, cracks, or worn edges – or even severe discolouration that whitening gel can’t shift – there are a few different ways to change a tooth’s size, shape, or surface with cosmetic dental treatments.
- Composite Bonding – A composite resin material can be colour-matched and moulded to teeth to repair worn edges with edge bonding, or cover the surface of the tooth with composite veneers. The composite bonding process requires minimal enamel removal to apply the resin.
- Porcelain Veneers – Just like false nails can cover fingernails to make them look pretty and reinforce their strength, porcelain veneers use tooth-coloured porcelain to make teeth look even in colour and shape. This is more robust than composite, but does require removing a bit more enamel.
- Gum Contouring – Maybe it’s not your teeth but your gums that are the problem? If you have a ‘gummy smile’ with too much gum or uneven gums, then gum contouring or a gum lift could help. This treatment can adjust the position of your gum tissue to create a more balanced smile.
Correct misalignments with straightening treatment
Traditional braces are an orthodontic treatment that can take a year and a half or more to straighten teeth and correct misaligned bites. This is the go-to option for straightening serious misalignments, from extremely crooked teeth to overlapping bites.
However, cosmetic braces or aligners can be used to fix mild to moderate misalignments, sometimes in only a few weeks or months.
- Clear aligners – Are your teeth white, but not straight? If you have mild issues with the spacing of your teeth, Invisalign could help you fix this discreetly using a series of clear plastic aligners. You can take them out to eat and drink, so there’s no need to change your diet!
Get straighter, whiter teeth with Smilemakers
Do you have wonky teeth that are out of alignment and could do with straightening up? Or are your teeth dull and stained from years of discolouration? Maybe you’ve experienced a few knocks over the years and are finding it hard to smile because of chips and cracks?
Whatever is keeping you from smiling can be fixed or made to look great again with modern cosmetic treatments. We’re not called Smilemakers for nothing!
Very few people are born with naturally perfect teeth, and even if they do have a wonderful teenage smile, as the years go by, life happens. Whatever has happened to your smile, we aren’t here to judge – we’re here to help with smile makeovers in Southampton.
To get advice from a cosmetic dentist in Southampton, why not come to the Smilemakers dental clinic for a consultation?
Call 023 8044 2626 or fill out our contact form to book a consultation, and we can talk you through the various treatments on offer to help you smile again!