Restoration – Which is the best choice for you?
Many dental patients seek comprehensive restorative dentistry to achieve a healthier, more appealing smile. If you are considering having dental work done to enhance your confidence and enable you to express yourself more openly, you should know about your options.
With all the recent advancements in dentistry, there is hardly a dental problem that can’t be corrected. From tooth colored aesthetic fillings to full mouth restoration there is a solution for you:
Composite Fillings
Amalgam (or metal) fillings can be replaced with more aesthetic and healthier tooth colored fillings to better match your natural teeth and reduce negative effects of metal in your body.
Veneers
Dental veneers can address a wide range of dental imperfections including crowded, misshapen, misaligned, and unevenly spaced teeth. Veneers can also be used to whiten resistant teeth that are discolored due to genetics, excessive fluoridation, or antibiotic use.
Veneers are thin pieces of porcelain that are created from a custom impression of your teeth, then applied over your prepared tooth by the dentist. They are permanent and cannot be whitened so any natural teeth may need a whitening treatment so that the resulting smile is aesthetically uniform.
Crowns
These are caps for teeth that are typically made from porcelain today. They fit over a damaged or extensively decayed tooth to prevent further destruction to the inner dentin and tooth root. They are also made from a custom impression of your tooth and shaded to match your natural teeth.
Dental Implants
The gold standard of tooth replacement, a dental implant fills the space left by a missing tooth and preserves the underlying bone, preventing the jaw line from thinning. When missing several teeth most dentist can provide you with implant supported bridges or overdentures.
Traditional Dentures
These adhesive based dental appliances have been around for a long time. While they can replace missing teeth, they lack the stability that implant supported dentures and br8idges can. They also do nothing to preserve your jaw line.
Can I Restore my Whole Smile?
Full-mouth reconstruction is possible and entails addressing complex issues, treating not only aesthetics but your dental health as well. For example, missing teeth coupled with discoloration and tooth crowding might need a combination of orthodontic work, implants, and teeth whitening.
If you are missing any teeth, your jawline can be affected by the loss of bone density, resulting in a change in your facial appearance. All dental issues can contribute to an inability to speak, eat, and drink with ease. Your dentist can help you navigate these choices further and choose the appropriate course of action to obtain the smile you desire.
If you are in the San Francisco area and are ready to address your dental issues – Give Pacific Dental Associates a call today!