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We are excited to welcome everyone back to the office. You will notice a lot of new changes (equipment, PPE, etc.) but it is the same practice and we will take the same great care of you!
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With the advent of the dental microscope, dentists are now able to save heavily damaged and, in some cases, even terminal teeth. The Terminal Tooth Protocol, or TTP, is a novel method of salvaging previously non-restorable teeth. This technique, based on the innovative work of several European dentists, has changed the practice of restorative dentistry. Relying on advanced dental microscopy, TTP utilizes every micron of healthy tooth to restore teeth and potentially allow the patient continued function.
Teeth that could derive particular benefit from TTP include those that: have had a previous failed crown; have been badly fractured; are located in areas inaccessible by implant. Many patients will do anything possible to avoid having to remove a natural tooth. These patients, or those who are otherwise not candidates for dental implants, should strongly consider TTP as an option. Oftentimes, we bill TTP restorations as long-term temporaries, as they all have a guarded prognosis due to their heavily damaged nature.
Of course, even with TTP, many teeth cannot be saved and dental implants are still recommend. However, as use of this technology becomes more widespread, tooth salvage may become the exception rather than the rule.
What does a perfect smile look like? Whether you think the perfect smile means having sparkling white teeth or you think it means having perfectly straight ones with healthy pink gums, you’re right. Your definition of the perfect smile is up to you, and with modern dentistry, the ability to achieve that perfect smile is more within your reach than you might think. With advanced solutions such as Invisalign and porcelain veneers, correcting smile imperfections is easier and more convenient than ever before.
Why Choose Cosmetic Dentistry?
Every smile is a unique work of art, and no two are ever the same. Aesthetic, or cosmetic, dentistry is versatile and uses a variety of techniques and solutions to work magic on your smile by correcting imperfections and revealing a healthy, functional and beautiful smile. Cosmetic dentists can close gaps between teeth, straighten them, make teeth appear shorter or longer by adjusting gum tissue or simply whiten the teeth for a brighter smile. Whatever your goals, cosmetic dentistry can provide a solution. From the smallest of corrections to complete and complex life-changing transformations, the services cosmetic dentists offer can perfect your smile and improve your life.
The Benefits of Cosmetic Dentistry
When you choose to achieve your perfect smile with aesthetic dentistry, you change more than just the look of your teeth. Having a healthy, functional smile can quite literally change your life. When you go from having an overbite, underbite, crossbite or other misalignment to having a straight, aligned smile, you can bite, chew and speak more comfortably. If you elongate your smile, whiten it or address minor cosmetic flaws such as chips with solutions like porcelain veneers, you can smile and laugh freely with the confidence that comes from knowing your smile is a good representation of you feel. The benefits of cosmetic dentistry are endless, and they can enhance your life with:
1. Improved smile functionality
2. Enhanced confidence and self-esteem
3. A healthier, more youthful appearance
4. Prevention of future dental damage
5. A more aesthetically pleasing smile
How to Get Started
If you’re ready to change your life with a new smile, contact us today. Our cosmetic dentist, Dr. Joseph Spina, has unique training and experience to bring you the best solutions cosmetic dentistry has to offer. By perfecting your smile, we’ll help guide you on the path toward improved health and confidence.
Great wine always starts with great grapes. They give the wine flavor, color, character and complexity. Much in the same way, great dental laboratories with great dental laboratory technicians are vital for great dentistry. They provide the expertise in materials, design, and fabrication that brings our dental restorations to life.
Your mouth is a hostile environment. The temperature can range from freezing cold to boiling hot. The force placed on teeth when chewing can vary from soft to brutally strong depending on the food. Then, some people grind and clench their teeth in unique and unnatural ways. For a restoration to survive even for a short amount of time, it must be resilient, fit with precision, and be adaptable to demands placed on it. The skill of the lab technician and the quality of the material used are key factors in creating a restoration that can survive in such an environment.
Myself and my team of technicians, who work in Baltimore MD, use only the best and most researched materials. I only work with technicians with a long history in the industry and who have a proven record of success. If your goal is great dentistry, you can never compromise quality. From crowns to bridges or implant and veneers, quality is our most sacred value. Much like grapes are to wine, dental laboratory technicians and materials are the building blocks of great dentistry.
Staining, discoloration, cracks, chips and otherwise imperfect teeth can impact more than just your self-confidence – they can also make everyday life uncomfortable. Uneven spacing and other smile imperfections can significantly change the way you bite, chew, and speak. They often make these normal activities difficult, requiring diet changes and other measures to counteract the effects of the dental irregularity.
Previous restorative solutions have offered some relief from these challenges, but often come up short in terms of offering a comprehensive, long-lasting dental solution that not only improves the functionality of the smile, but its beauty as well. Fortunately, these solutions have paved the way to a modern cosmetic dental solution that really works: dental veneers.
What Can Dental Veneers Do For You?
Dental veneers are a minor, minimally-invasive cosmetic dental solution that may be recommended for the following smile concerns:
• Staining and discoloration from tobacco use, coffees, teas, medications, or natural aging
• Teeth that have been worn down
• Broken or chipped teeth
• Misaligned, uneven, or irregularly shaped teeth
• Teeth that are too far apart (gaps between the teeth)
Dental Veneers Are a Natural-Looking Cosmetic Dental Enhancement
Dental veneers are a thin piece of high quality porcelain that is cemented onto the front, outer-facing portion of your tooth. They are custom designed to replicate the shape, size, length, and color of your natural teeth. This means they blend naturally into your beautiful smile for a virtually undetectable cosmetic dental enhancement.
Choose Dental Veneers for a Lifetime of Benefits
When you choose to improve your smile with dental veneers, you are making the decision to invest in more than just a cosmetic dental enhancement. Your dental veneers will help you bite, chew, speak, and smile normally again, making these everyday activities convenient, all while increasing the confidence you have in yourself.
Dental veneers also offer the following benefits to you and your smile:
• Custom fit and design blends naturally with your smile
• High quality porcelain is designed to last with proper care
• Stain-resistant protection keeps your smile brighter and whiter
Your Beautiful Smile is Possible
If you have been dreaming of a beautiful, functional smile, there has never been a better time to take action with modern dental solutions like dental veneers. This minor cosmetic enhancement offers significant, long-lasting improvement that will leave you with the beautiful smile you deserve. To get started, schedule your personal consultation with a dental professional to discuss your smile needs and desires, and how dental veneers can be the solution you have been waiting for?
You might not expect it. But it happens.
Tooth loss!
Aside from oral trauma, the loss of a tooth or multiple teeth can set in motion a number of threats to your oral health. Delaying treatment enhances your impact risk.
One is all it takes
Depending on where your tooth loss occurs, your appearance is the first to suffer. Next is your tooth function.
One tooth might not affect your ability to eat or chew significantly. Yet the loss of more than one tooth will increase your functional challenges.
One missing tooth is one too many. Your teeth are designed to function as a unit in each arch (upper or lower) of your mouth.
Alignment, bone health, gum tissue health plus daily function are affected when a tooth gap exists.
The deeper issue
It’s not as much the loss of a tooth that causes long-term problems (there are solutions).Your problems mount when you delay tooth replacement (ignore solutions). Each tooth is more than what you see or utilize on the surface. Your tooth roots create stability within your jawbone and how each tooth aligns above your gum line.
Teeth that shift will weaken each root. Weakened tooth roots will begin to impact the health of your bone and gum tissue.
A solution to consider
Since tooth roots are a significant part of your tooth’s anatomy wouldn’t it make sense to replace them at the “root level?” A dental implant does that.
Implants from root to tip provide a secure, natural-looking, and naturally functioning new tooth. A dental implant:
Restores your tooth function and appearance
Adapts to your bone and gum tissue
Preserves the health of your jawbone and gums
Remains stable and will not shift or move
Tooth loss happens
It helps to be aware of the impact…and how to restore it when it does.Contact our Wayne dental office about your missing tooth or missing teeth. Schedule an examination to diagnose your tooth loss condition and discuss your tooth replacement options including dental implants.
A glance at your calendar and your mind begins to race. Right?
The decisions often start with where you’re going, what clothes to wear, and it proceeds from there. There’s another decision that can boost your confidence as your social calendar fills up in the weeks or months ahead.
It’s about dentistry…cosmetic dentistry to be more specific.
Cosmetic dentistry provides health benefits. It also amplifies something else.
Your smile gives you an advantage wherever you go. Plan now to make sure yours does as you prepare for an upcoming class or family reunion, a wedding, a vacation, or other social event you have calendared in the weeks ahead.
Top priority
Your dental health is of utmost importance. The health of your teeth and gums can make-or-break your smile.
Cosmetic dentistry places a priority on your health first. There are restorative benefits that some procedures primarily provide to assure that your oral health is protected and maintained.
White (tooth-colored) dental fillings treat your decay damaged teeth, restore your tooth structure, and improve the appearance of your treated tooth. They are also a recommended replacement for old, worn-out, and more visible metal (silver) fillings.
Dental crowns are another treatment that has a restorative as well as a cosmetic benefit.
Crowns cover your tooth that’s damaged by decay with a natural looking replacement.
A dental crown also provides the functional, surface structure for a tooth that’s been replaced with a dental implant. Your dental crown is designed to perfectly match your surrounding teeth for a healthy aesthetic improvement.
Put a smile on it
Other cosmetic dentistry procedures are dominant smile enhancers. Treatments can include teeth bleaching (whitening), veneers, and orthodontics featuring Invisalign(r).
These procedures noticeably improve the appearance of your smile. Orthodontic dentistry does that plus it improves the alignment of your teeth to assure healthy teeth and gums along with your smile.
Now is the perfect time to improve the health and look of your smile. Contact our Wayne dental office about cosmetic dentistry and schedule an oral examination to discuss treatment options.
How are your investments doing? Your first reaction is likely related to your financial portfolio.
What about your health portfolio? More specifically, your dental health portfolio?
Restorative and cosmetic dentistry provide you a variety of investment opportunities. Each have value to your oral health and your appearance.
Consider veneers
Dental veneers restore your front, smile-zone teeth to a natural looking, attractive condition. Veneers are most often crafted from thin, porcelain shells that are bonded to front surface of your teeth.
Porcelain veneers are effective for:
-Treating your dull, stained teeth
-Repairing your crooked, crowded, broken, chipped, and misshapen teeth
-Filling the gap(s) between your front teeth
Treatment with veneers can also eliminate the need for ongoing teeth whitening. And your dental veneer procedure can restore your smile within two in-office appointments.
Long-term investment value
The costs of your veneer treatment can vary. Compared to the long-term value to your health and appearance they are a cost-effective investment.
If ignored, your tooth imperfections can have a negative impact on your health and increase your treatment costs. Compare your investment in dental veneers with the lasting value they provide your health and appearance.
As you’re considering an investment in dental veneers we recommend that you ask your insurance provider (if applicable) about coverage. This could give you cost reducing options, if your provider coverage allows.
How to protect your investment
Treat your dental investments, including veneers, as you would any of your financial decisions. Protect your dental veneers to assure that they last and are not damaged.
Preventive dentistry is a priority. Care for your veneers by brushing and flossing daily and stay consistent with your professional, in-office teeth cleanings and dental examinations.
You can also protect your veneers with a night guard. This oral appliance is essential if you experience teeth grinding (bruxism).
Be aware of the foods and beverages you consume. Coffee, tea, and red wine can increase the risk of staining your veneers.
Your investment in dental veneers has longevity with proper care. Expect them to function effectively for up to 15 years.
Contact our Wayne dental office about cosmetic dentistry and restorative dentistry. Schedule a dental examination to discuss dental veneers.
A do-over. Perhaps you’ve needed one on occasion.
“Need” is an important word when your dental health is involved. Full-mouth restoration or full-mouth reconstruction (as it’s often called) is a dental specialty that focuses on restoring all your teeth in your upper and lower jaw.
The treatment is most often completed over a period of time. And it’s common for a variety of dental problems.
Want vs. Need
A full-mouth reconstruction falls more into the category of need. Although understanding its value to your overall health can easily provide you the motivation to want the treatment.
Your need for a full-mouth restoration can result from various dental issues. These can include tooth loss caused by decay or trauma, fractured or injured teeth, damage caused by teeth grinding, or ongoing head, neck, or jaw pain caused by a poor or uneven bite.
First things first
Your first step will involve a thorough dental examination. I will examine the presence and extent of any tooth damage, tooth wear, or other signs of dental trauma.
It’s important to observe the health of your teeth and gums. Their relationship to each other and the presence of any disease must be treated for any restorative dentistry to be effective.
Bite correction is also essential. Any reconstructive dentistry that follows will provide you the healthiest outcomes.
It’s also necessary to observe the appearance of your teeth and how they compliment your gums. Color, shade, and alignment are an essential aspect of your full-mouth restoration.
Why prioritize?
Certain treatments may not be necessary. Your initial consolation and dental examination will help determine the best procedures for your restorative treatment plan.
Procedures, cost, and time involved are also important considerations. Again, your need for restorative dentistry is the priority.
Contact our Wayne dental office about your tooth loss, dental trauma, or related oral health issues. Schedule a consultation to discuss a full-mouth restoration to improve your health and appearance.
Your dental health can be defined by two things. One, how well your teeth function and two, how your teeth appear.
The combination is of function and appearance is a goal of cosmetic dentistry. Ultimately, your teeth must be healthy or aesthetics will be of less or no benefit to you.
Your smile is among the first thing people notice. That makes it all-important that you’re confident your teeth are healthy.
Confidence boost
Porcelain veneers can deliver a confidence boost. The cosmetic dentistry treatment covers your tooth imperfections.
Your dental health can be threatened by gaps, chips, and stains on your teeth. These conditions also have an impact on your willingness to smile confidently.
Dental veneers are thin porcelain layers. The treatment bonds to the front, visible surfaces of your teeth.
Veneers look natural. They create a long-lasting solution for covering your damaged or unattractive tooth issues.
Porcelain veneers are also stain resistant. They require less tooth preparation prior to treatment, unlike dental bonding and/or dental crowns.
What to expect
Your procedure duration will be determined by the severity of your tooth imperfections. Also, the type of veneers you select can have affect the length of your treatment appointment.
I will examine your teeth. Once I have an understanding of your appearance goals and I can create a specific treatment plan that meets your dental health goals.
During your procedure appointment I will prep the surface of your teeth for the application of your veneers. It’s common for portions of your tooth surface to be removed to help assure that your porcelain veneers fit properly.
A mold of your teeth is obtained as well. It will be sent to our selected dental laboratory where your custom-designed set of veneers will be crafted.
We will notify you when your veneers are available from the lab. An appointment will be scheduled for confirmation of fit and color matching prior to your procedure.
Your new porcelain dental veneers will then be bonded to the surface of your teeth with a special curing process once all necessary adjustments are completed. It’s essential that you protect and care for your dental veneers as you would your natural tooth surfaces.
Maintain the health of your teeth and the appearance of your smile with routine preventive dentistry. This includes at-home care and scheduled dental examinations and teeth cleanings.
Contact our Wayne dental office about your cosmetic dentistry questions and goals. Schedule a consultation to discuss porcelain dental veneers for transforming the appearance of your smile.
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