Cosmetic Dentistry
Cosmetic dentistry pertains to any dental treatment that improves the appearance of teeth, gums, or bites. It mainly focuses on improving the color, position, shape, size, alignment, and general appearance of the teeth.
Regardless of their exact schooling, expertise, training, and experience in this sector, many dentists consider themselves “cosmetic dentists.” This has been deemed immoral because the primary goal is to market to patients.
There are two dental disciplines that are concerned primarily with dental aesthetics:
- Prosthodontics
- Orthodontics
Common types of cosmetic dentistry include:
- Addition of dental material to teeth or gums, like bonding, porcelain veneers, caps, and gum grafts.
- The removal of tooth structure or gums, like enameloplasty and gingivectomy,
- removing or adding dental materials, tooth structure, or gums, like bleaching, laser whitening, or gum depigmentation.
- The alignment of teeth is accompanied by an improvement in the appearance of the face through orthodontics.
- Dental veneers, dental laminates, conservative
- scaling