If you are think you need a full smile makeover, Acharya Dental is the right place for you. Here at our clinic, we have our Prosthodontist, Endodontist, Oral Surgeon and an Orthodontist, all under the same roof. A great deal of time can be saved as we also have our in-house laboratory, which is one of the signature features of our clinic. If you are new in town and are looking for a doctor to cater to all your dental needs, then make an appointment with us at https://acharyadental.net to start your treatment.
Does crooked teeth affect your smile?
Did you know that crooked teeth can affect your speech? Speaking clearly in a way that everyone can understand you is essential to boosting and maintaining confidence. It is highly recommended by your team at Acharya Dental to get the crooked or protruding teeth fixed on time to avoid issues with speech.
Procedure for Porcelain Veneers
Porcelain veneers are thin ceramic shells adhered onto the surfaces of prepared teeth. Veneers correct or camouflage severe discoloration, damage, misalignment or teeth that are poorly shaped. During the first visit, the teeth are shaped and an impression is made. The veneer is then created in the laboratory and cemented to your tooth in a few days. Visit our clinic and make an appointment if you desire a more beautiful smile.
What are dentures?
A denture is a set of artificial teeth set into acrylic or metal frameworks that rest directly on the gums and/or remaining teeth. Partial dentures are used for people with several teeth missing and whose teeth aren’t strong enough to support a bridge. Complete dentures are used for those who have lost all of their upper or lower teeth. Three to five visits are required to obtain impressions and fit the dentures properly. Make an appointment with us to learn more about this process.
Cosmetic Dentistry And You
Browsing through a book titled ‘Beauty through the Ages’, I was bemused to see that the concept of beauty has changed so radically. Well Oiled hair, kohl darkened eyes and a buxom figure was the rage of yesteryear, today beauty wears a bold look laced with abandon. Now beauty deals with such intangibles as Attitude and Style. Yes, a lot has changed except for one thing.
From Marilyn Monroe to Madhuri Dixit, Robert Redford to Rajesh Khanna, the value of the smile is unchanged. These famous smiles have fired the imagination of the masses and launched a thousand sighs.
Yes, a beautiful smile lights up the face, helps you on your route to success and makes you feel good. A beautiful smile is not just for the rich and the famous. It’s for all of us. We all want to look good and feel confident.
Cosmetic Dentistry has evolved into a multi-disciplinary component of total facial harmony. Facial harmony applies to all the facial muscles around the mouth, the gums and the teeth. All of these together create an optimal smile and is part of the complete look.
Dentistry has met this challenge with an array of new materials and innovative techniques. These can change your smile and your life, forever. Here is brief overview of what is possible.
Cosmetic contouring:
Tooth reshaping, or contouring, is one of few instant treatments now available in cosmetic dentistry. Dental reshaping and contouring is a procedure to correct crooked teeth, chipped teeth, cracked teeth or even overlapping teeth in just one session. The dental contouring procedure can even be a substitute for braces under certain circumstances. It is also a procedure of subtle changes. Tooth reshaping, or dental contouring, is commonly used to alter the length, shape or position of your teeth.
Bonding:
Bonding is done with composite resins to close gaps to fix chipped teeth, to cover discolourations and to replace the traditional silver fillings in the back teeth.
Inlays/Onlays:
This is a highly esthetic, non-metallic restoration that is bonded on the prepared tooth to restore the beauty, strength and function of the tooth.
Crowns:
This is a procedure whereby a tooth is shaped to receive full coverage to hide fracture/discolouration or damage by decay or discoloured restorations. Teeth that have undergone Root Canal are also crowned if sufficient tooth structure is missing or if the dentist feels that the tooth will last longer by protecting it with the crown.
Veneers:
Veneers are porcelain wafers that are laboratory fabricated and are bonded onto the tooth. They are highly esthetic and lifelike. They are designed to correct colors, sizes, shapes, spaces and alignments of teeth. They are stronger and more durable than composites.
The science of dentistry is combined with aesthetics, beauty and harmony. Solutions now exist which can make your smile look stunning. What are you waiting for?
Computer Aided Smile
The savvy updated Hindu reader has read by now extensive information on Cosmetic Dentistry and what it can do to enhance you smile and your life.
Now read on-
Dentists have been providing esthetic and pleasing solutions for years in the form of caps and veneers to cover, protect or beautify a tooth. On the face of it, that seems simple enough. The process involves shaping the tooth, taking a mould and sending it to a lab. A few days later your cap is ready to fit. So what is the problem? Here it is:
From the process of the moulding to the finish there is many a slip between the cup and the lip, and several errors can creep in.
The major problems you can find in these caps and bridges are that they could have one or all of these problems:
- A cap fitting short of the gum line causing a ledge. You can feel this edge with your nail and worse, food can accumulate in this region where your cap meets the gum. In dental terms, this is called a “short margin”. As the days go by, given the unhygienic nature of the problems the gum responds by receding further away due to irritation.
- The cap fits loosely on the tooth depending on the cement inside to hold it. When the cement dissolves, your cap could fall out.
- The shape of your cap could be faulty as it is visualized by the laboratory technician on whose skill and experience the final result is dependent.
- The colour of your cap matching your teeth may leave much to be desired.
- After sometime decay can start to set in under the gum line causing pain and very often, a new infection.
The ubiquitous computer has invaded medicine and the world is today a different place. When small gaps make a big difference, the accuracy of the computer is unparalleled. The computer designs your cap decides where the margin of your tooth is lying and shapes the inner structure to provide the needed strength and accuracy.
Today CAD-CAM is the new terminology for the new technology Computer Aided Design – computer aided milling. In this system a dentist prepares your tooth and takes an impression, or a mould. The model is created from this and a scanner reads the finish line, the shape and all the other details.