Improve Your Smile with Teeth Straightening Therapy

A beautiful smile has several benefits, and if you need teeth straightening, your dentist can help you make your teeth look perfect with a smile that others will admire. When your smile is made perfect, you feel better about yourself and have more confidence. This can boost your social life, your career and lower your stress levels which are good for your health. 

The technology that allows a dentist to make your smile more perfect is improving all the time, and this is making these procedures more affordable. This is partly why cosmetic dentistry is becoming more popular as more and more people enjoy the chance to improve their smiles, chew their food better, and avoid future dental problems with straighter, more perfect teeth. Dentists have several ways of straightening your teeth, and some are listed next. 

Braces

We usually think of braces as being for teenagers, and while often this is true, braces can also be used on adults to straighten their teeth as well. Braces work because they are a series of brackets that attach to your teeth with slots that an archwire passes through to attach to them. The archwire pulls on the slots, which pull on your teeth to realign them in straighter form. The bone in your jaw forms around these realigned teeth, and you are left with straighter, more perfect-looking teeth.

It usually takes about 16 to 18 months for braces to make your teeth straight, and the benefits are beyond just a more attractive smile. When you wear braces for teeth straightening, you also prevent jawbone erosion and often improve your speech. With this, your confidence goes up, and your whole quality of life improves.

Dental bonding

One way to make crooked teeth appear straighter is by reducing gaps between them and making shorter teeth the same length as longer teeth are by dental bonding. This bonding uses a material called composite resin, which happens to be the same material used in tooth-colored fillings. 

Dental bonding involves putting a clay-like material on the tooth and molding it to the desired shape. Then the dentist takes a light and heat fixes the clay to the tooth, making it a solid tooth-like material that will adhere to the same color as the tooth. The final result is that people will not be able to tell the difference between your natural tooth and the cosmetic dental bonding. This procedure tends to be one of the less expensive teeth straightening options and often can be completed in just one dental visit. 

Dental veneers

Sometimes when your front teeth are not severely crooked dental veneers can be an excellent choice because they can completely transform your smile in as little as two dental visits.

Your dentist will want to take a mold of your front teeth so that dental veneers can be custom-made in a laboratory to fit you perfectly. Once the dentist bonds them to your teeth, they are permanent, so you want to be sure that this is the option you want for forming a perfect smile. 

Request an appointment here: https://www.mytotaldentistry.com or call McCarthy Dentistry at (740) 546-5178 for an appointment in our Marietta office.

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