The Perfect Way to Have the Perfect Smile

Ever dreamt of having pearly, white teeth? Well, with the advent of modern cosmetic dentistry, having that perfect smile is not far from reality. This field of dentistry primarily aims to improve dental health including function and aesthetics. A dentist specializing in this field would probably offer you treatments like teeth whitening, veneers and tooth reshaping.

If you have an amalgam filling (a black-colored filling on your tooth), or a gold crown you can easily have these replaced using a tooth-colored filling. This is not a difficult treatment nowadays and it can be done in one seating! Yes! You do not need to wait for ages and ages just to have a filling replaced.

Together with the technological advancements in dentistry is the progress in dental material. Before, dental materials are very limited. Today, more advanced dental materials are available so much so that treatments can be done in a matter of minutes with astounding results.

Among the very popular dental treatments is cosmetic dentistry veneers. To keep everything simple, what dentists do is they grind off a very thin layer of enamel (the outermost, hard covering of our teeth) on your teeth and add a thin layer of tooth-colored (usually shades lighter than your teeth's original color) material on your teeth. The treatment is relatively simple. However, treatments like these are not very cheap.

Dental Laminates: Sure and Effective Way To Brighten Up Your Smile!

Do you ever wonder how people get instant white teeth that are really sparkly clear? How do artists turn their smile into a winning smile?

There are a lot of ways where you can have that smile you have been dreaming of. There are those laser treatments, external and internal bleaching, and the most popular ones today - dental laminates.

Laminates or veneers also come by the names porcelain veneer, porcelain laminate veneer. When you veneer something, you also glue something (usually any thin layer) onto a surface. Similarly, when you veneer a tooth, this means that you glue a very thin layer (measured in millimeters!) of porcelain on the front surface of the teeth to give you that dreamy white shade of your teeth. Of course, you have to sort of remove a little tooth structure (wafer-thin) to be able to create a natural look. Just imagine how fake it would be if you added an extra layer on your tooth! It will be just like wearing those fake dentures that artists wear when they do comedy.

What is unique about these veneers is that, unlike jackets or crowns, you do not need to sacrifice a lot of the surface of your teeth. For your information, when you lessen the structure of your teeth, it will also lessen its inherent strength. To put this simply, the likelihood of your tooth fracturing is increased if it is restored with a jacket. Laminates are therefore conservative because it requires less destruction of tooth structure.

No what about bonding to your teeth? Are laminates strong enough to resist forces when we regularly chew our food?

Absolutely. Yes! With today's technology, this is very much possible. With the use of resin adhesives (yes, the resin on plastic materials), the bond strength is enough to resist these forces. And because it is a very thin layer, almost all of the forces are absorbed by the tooth itself. So you don't have to worry about possibilities of de- bonding! Plus it is very easy to repair it if ever this does happen!


With laminates, you are sure to have that shade of white that will best suit your taste with little effort on your part (dental clinics only require 2 visits for this).