One Visit Smile Lift
No injections, no pain at Designer Smiles® in just one visit. Smile lift also gives you a face-lift.
A beautiful smile makes a great first impression and is one of the key reasons people are perceived as being attractive or successful. Your smile is also an area of the body which ages visibly. Teeth primarily hold the facial bones in place. As we get older or lose teeth, the jawbone is less supportive and the face sinks, contributing to an ageing appearance.
Maintaining a youthful smile becomes increasingly challenging. Luckily, today’s cosmetic dentistry techniques enable more people to benefit from a more aesthetically pleasing smile. It is important to be aware of all available options when seeking advice. Using veneers, for example, will give better lip and cheek support, fill out the top lip and enhance facial expression. This is rejuvenating in itself and having a youthful smile is something we all want. This improves the quality of life as well as addressing the dental and aesthetic needs. According to Dr Nalbandian, this conservative approach maintains and beautifies at the same time. There are several options available to improve the colour and shape of the teeth and the smile.
There are also many options available to remodel the shape, to close gaps and to improve the gum line. Dr Nalbandian recommends the One Visit Smile Lift, a procedure that normally requires no local anaesthetic and is painless. Composite veneers are applied and the procedure does not require cutting a sound tooth structure. This can be used on people of all ages and the effect is immediate. It is non-invasive and relatively inexpensive because there are no laboratory fees, but the improvement is dramatic.
Note the narrow arch, uneven lips, crooked and discoloured teeth. The reduced lip support is evidenced by deep grooving of nasolabial (facial) fold.
An attractive smile has always been a focal point of patients’ attention of improving aesthetic appearance and self esteem/image. There are always discrepancies between a dentist and a patient on patterns of self perception and aesthetic satisfaction. The dentist and the primary decision-maker, the patient, must plan the aesthetic treatment together for overall satisfaction.
Improved Smile: Lip and facial support, teeth arrangement, colour, symmetry and teeth exposure.
The evolution of composite materials today with enhanced bonding to tooth structure has increased the dentist’s ability to control aesthetics in his own practice with predictable success and with no laboratory cost. The selection of composite materials offers a variety of shades and opacities of enamel. Dentin is indicated for achieving natural colour and aesthetics in a relatively short, simple and predictable manner. Most cases are accomplished in one visit with minimal tooth intervention, no local anaesthetic, and with reduced cost to the patient.
The technique can be applied to patients of all ages and the results can be astounding. Patients appreciate the one visit procedure and the immediate aesthetic improvement. Dr Nalbandian’s research for this Masters thesis shows that from the patient’s perspective, the aesthetic improvement using direct composites is equal to other indirect restorative materials. Patients are most grateful that aesthetic results are immediate whilst preserving the integrity of their tooth-enamel. All restorations will fail over time however. Preserving the enamel integrity, maintaining full control of the treatment, using direct composite veneers will keep our patients smiling for a long time. Direct composites allow us to plan for the future and make appropriate changes if and when required. Why? Because a smile is a fashion statement and fashion changes over time!
One visit, that’s all it takes! Simple and painless. The whole procedure takes about 3-5 hours.
One Visit Smile Lift
This procedure involved application of composite veneers to upper eight teeth. Ultra-thin porcelain
technology can also be used as an alternative. |
