Julia Roberts Movie Star Smile

Julia looks like one of those lucky ones with a naturally gorgeous smile. But consider if she’d be as successful if that smile weren’t stunning.

You can transform your appearance from ordinary to extraordinary with the use of porcelain crowns (caps) and veneers. These dental procedures are called “cosmetic dentistry.”

Before you invest in this treatment, let me point out that you’re not just interior decorating. There’s two major areas of outcome you need to be concerned with: Do your teeth look natural? and do they chew comfortably?

Often when someone has extensive work done in their mouth, it’s noticeable. Sometimes the teeth seem to be out-of-proportion to the mouth. Or, they don’t look natural. With the technology available today, there’s no reason crowns and veneers can’t look like your own teeth and not like dental work, even to the most discerning eye.

An experienced dentist utilizing the latest technological advancements can give you a complete cosmetic makeover that is dazzling, and yet entirely natural looking and feels comfortable.

The hallmark of good dental work is it enhances your smile without being obvious. It’s beautiful, but natural looking and natural feeling. Let me give you some examples of what I consider dental work that is far too obvious. Dick Van Dyke and Carol Burnett had smiles that looked fake – their bite planes are off and their teeth don’t look natural. 

For those of you too young to remember those famous TV stars, just start looking at the smiles of stars in the magazines you see at the supermarket checkout counters. You’ll notice there are those that simply don’t look right to you. The teeth can seem out of proportion to the mouth or seem fake looking. Once you start looking, you’ll see what I mean.

When someone has had good dental work, you’d never guess they’ve had any work at all.

The three keys to a successful cosmetic makeover:

1. Correct the Structure First. You don’t want to do interior decorating of the teeth until the foundation tissues of the mouth and teeth are stable and balanced. The foundation of your mouth includes balanced jaw joints and healthy bone and ligaments surrounding the teeth.

2. Function Must Go Hand in Hand With Appearance.No matter how good the dental work looks, it has to be able to function in a way that facilitates chewing. If it impedes chewing or restricts jaw movements a person makes, the treatment will not hold up. Improper chewing can lead to muscle spasms, jaw joint dislocations, with mild to severe muscle pain, creating headaches, neck aches and back pain.

3. A natural look is not necessarily the whitest look. A tooth’s shade varies from the area at the gum line through the biting edge of the tooth. That’s why monochromatic tooth colors appear very unnatural.

Also know that if you’re just getting a single crown or veneer, the hardest thing to do is match that tooth color to its neighboring teeth. Therefore, if you’re crowning or veneering just one tooth, it’s vital your practitioner matches the shade exactly. Otherwise, that one tooth will shout to all its presence. If you’re interested in rejuvenating your smile, use the coupon above for an introductory consultation with me.

I look forward to seeing you at our St Louis office!