SMILE MAKEOVER AT BRISBANE SMILE BOUTIQUE
What is a Smile Makeover?
A smile makeover is a comprehensive dental treatment plan that combines various cosmetic dental procedures to improve the appearance of a person's smile. The goal of a smile makeover is to create a more beautiful and natural looking smile focusing on a range of cosmetic dental issues.
The specific procedures involved in a smile makeover will depend on the individual patient's needs and goals, but may include:
Teeth whitening: A professional teeth whitening treatment can effectively remove stains and discolouration, making teeth appear whiter and brighter.
At Brisbane Smile Boutique, we offer the best in teeth whitening treatments, featuring Zoom Teeth Whitening and Poladay Teeth In-Office Whitening. These state-of-the-art procedures provide our patients with a brighter, more radiant smile.
Zoom Teeth Whitening, known for its fast and effective results, transforms smiles in just one office visit. Poladay Teeth Whitening is celebrated for its precision and tailored approach, ensuring a comfortable and satisfying experience. Both treatments are administered by our skilled dental team, for a safe and remarkable transformation for your smile.
Tooth Bonding: This involves applying a tooth-coloured resin material to the surface of a tooth to repair chips, cracks, or gaps.
Porcelain veneers: These are thin, custom made porcelain shells that are precision bonded to the front surface of teeth to improve their appearance.
Dental crowns: Crowns are used to cover and protect damaged or decayed teeth, while also improving their appearance.
Invisalign or other orthodontic treatment: This can be used to correct crooked or misaligned teeth and improve the overall appearance of the smile.
Dental implants: These are a long-lasting solution to replace missing teeth, restoring both function and aesthetics to the smile.
Smile makeovers are highly customised to the individual patient's needs and goals, and may involve a combination of these or other cosmetic dental procedures. By working closely with our cosmetic dentists, patients can achieve a beautiful, natural looking smile that they love.
Your facial features, teeth (colour, width, length, shape and tooth display), gums and lip shape are all assessed for smile design, including with computer analysis, to create a harmonious and natural smile.
Considerations for a smile makeover
Tooth Colour: Metal fillings can be replaced with natural appearing, tooth coloured composite or durable porcelain inlay and onlay restorations.
Teeth whitening can improve the colour of stained or dull teeth. Tooth colour ought to be as light as a patient will ever wish for, before matching in porcelain veneers, crowns, bridges, tooth bonding and dental implants, for a youthful appearance.
Dark or discoloured teeth might create more of an aged appearance. The shade of your teeth after whitening for veneers is carefully matched to consider your facial features so there is balance and symmetry for a brighter, whiter smile framed by the lines and curves of a natural smile.
Alignment and Spacing: Teeth that are crooked, overlapping or that have gaps between them, can be straightened and aligned when requested with clear aligners or Invisalign, or improved within a week or two with porcelain veneers, or tooth bonding with composite resin.
Missing Teeth: One or more missing teeth affects the appearance of your smile and function of your bite, so replacement is a usual part of good dental health and restoring facial harmony. Missing teeth can be replaced with dental implants, bridges or partial dentures, with most people preferring a fixed option, rather than removable dentures.
Harmony and Balance: Uneven, chipped and cracked teeth can be bonded for an improved appearance, and a gummy smile can be recontoured with a gum lift to help improve the overall appearance and harmony of your smile.
Fuller Lips, Smile and Cheeks: An ageing face can be rejuvenated with aligner treatments to restore the bite and align teeth, or with restorative care to recreate your bite, restore function, create broadness in the smile, and framing a smile with fuller lips.
At Brisbane Smile Boutique, our cosmetic dentists work with you to form a treatment plan to create your smile makeover. This may consist of a number of aesthetic and functionally restorative procedures, such as teeth whitening, tooth bonding, porcelain veneers, composite veneers, dental crowns, Invisalign aligners and gummy smile reduction.
Aesthetic Components of a Smile Makeover
Colour, alignment and balance of your teeth in your smile are critical, as well as some other attributes of your teeth and smile that your cosmetic dentist will assess.
Aesthetic components of a smile makeover include:
Tooth Length: Teeth that display a curve when you smile, give a youthful appearance. Ageing results in wear and tear where the teeth may become shorter, and a gummy smile can make teeth appear shorter. For shorter teeth, treatment may involved reshaping or lengthening of the front teeth with composite bonding or porcelain veneers. If you have a gummy smile, your dentist may plan to modify the gum line which lengthens the appearance of your teeth allowing for harmony with your facial features.
Tooth Proportions: Our cosmetic dentists determine if your teeth are in correct proportion with each other, with a pleasing smile being one where the two central front teeth are dominant and have a width to length ratio of 4:5. This proportion guides the length and width of other teeth in your smile so that the smile line appears balanced.
Tooth Texture and Characterisation: Our aesthetic dentists can create crowns or veneers that appear more feminine or more masculine, replicating the look and feel of natural teeth, or can base your smile on photographs of smiles that you like.
Risks of treatmeNt
Undergoing any invasive or surgical dental procedure, including those offered at Brisbane Smile Boutique, inherently involves certain risks. It is crucial for patients to understand these risks and consider seeking a second opinion from another qualified health practitioner before proceeding with treatment.
At Brisbane Smile Boutique, the commitment to patient safety and informed decision-making is paramount. Patients are required to undergo a comprehensive dental examination and consultation appointment. This process ensures that they are suitable candidates for the proposed procedures and that they fully understand all aspects of the treatment, including potential risks and outcomes.
The photos displayed on the Brisbane Smile Boutique website are of actual patients treated by Dr Leila Haywood. While these images serve as a general representation of the treatment outcomes, it is important to note that individual results can vary significantly. This variation underscores the fact that no single dental treatment is universally suitable for every patient.
Dentists at Brisbane Smile Boutique are dedicated to providing care that is specifically tailored to the needs and circumstances of each individual patient. This personalised approach ensures that only suitable treatments are recommended and performed, aligning with the highest standards of dental care and patient safety.