subject: Two Procedures The Cosmetic Dentist Can Help You With [print this page] A cosmetic dentist is a specialized dental practitioner, whose main job involves improving the appearance of his or her clients, as far the teeth (and the whole 'oral area' at large) goes. This is one of the specialties in dentistry whose services have increasingly been very widely sought after in recent days. This has been occasioned by the fact that people are keenly looking to improve their appearance in pursuit of the social and even economic opportunities that 'looking good' opens up in today's extremely image conscious society.
In order to understand the sorts of procedures the cosmetic dentist can help you with, it would be great to have an insight as to what most people consider to be the 'perfect smile.' This is especially the case seeing that it is in pursuit of that 'perfect smile' that people end up in the cosmetic dentist's clinic.
Now for most people, the 'perfect smile' is one where the teeth behind it are perfectly white. And as it turns out, some people are gifted with 'naturally' white teeth, whereas others, mainly due to early childhood chemical influences, end up with not so white teeth. But even those born with perfectly white teeth are still likely to end up with somewhat 'colored' versions of them over time, thanks to foods, drinks and 'other substances' like cigarette smoke that the teeth are likely to come into contact with over time.
For most people, too, the 'perfect smile' is one where the teeth behind it are perfectly aligned. This is about how the teeth are arranged in the rows where they are presented. Again, some people are born with perfectly aligned teeth. Some, mainly thanks to genetic influences, are born with 'out of alignment' teeth. But even those born with perfectly aligned teeth are likely to end up starting to lose that perfect alignment with time - for the pressures that teeth are subjected to, on a day to day basis, tend to push them out of alignment over time.
To restore (or give you for the first time) that 'perfect smile' then, there are at least a couple of procedures that the cosmetic dentist can help you with.
1) One of these is teeth whitening. As mentioned, one of the foremost features of the 'perfect smile' is that the teeth behind it are perfectly white. To help you whiten your teeth, there are a number of approaches the cosmetic dentist can use. He may, for instance, bleach the teeth - especially if the stains on them are not too ingrained. Alternatively, your cosmetic dentist can help you whiten your teeth by making for you an expertly-crafted veneer to hide the teeth staining.
2) The second procedure the cosmetic dentist can help you with is teeth re-alignment. This is where crooked teeth (or just slightly out-of-order teeth) are brought back into perfect alignment. To this end, the cosmetic dentist can prescribe braces for you, especially where the problem is not major, or she may prescribe a surgical operation to bring completely crooked teeth back into order.
by: James Maloney
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