Laser Gum Surgery for a Beautiful Smile

LASER GUM SURGERY CAN CREATE A BEAUTIFUL SMILE
The shape, color and appearance of your teeth can easily be changed to create a beautiful smile with modern cosmetic dentistry techniques, such as tooth whitening, tooth-colored fillings, dental implants and porcelain veneers. However, most people are not aware that a Cosmetic Dentist also can create a beautiful smile with subtle changes to their gums using soft-tissue lasers that recontour the gum-line. Recontouring of your gums can drastically change and improve the natural balance of your smile.
The soft-tissue laser is one of the newer dental tools available to the Cosmetic Dentist. It can be used often without any anesthetic to reshape your gums painlessly to give a beautifully sculptured smile that would be the envy of a Hollywood movie star. Laser gum surgery may be appropriate for you in the following situations:
• Teeth appear small or short
• Gums appear large and dominate your smile
• Gum tissue appearance is different on each side of your mouth
• Overall balance between gums and teeth is not proportional
• Gum contours around teeth are not correct or uneven
When you smile, very little gum should be visible. The majority of your smile should exhibit your beautiful teeth, with just a hint of gum showing above the teeth. Each tooth should have a nicely arched and contoured gum-line above it. The soft-tissue laser offers a painless, minimally invasive, non-anesthesia surgery that is an extremely successful method of obtaining a beautiful smile.
A beautiful smile created with soft-tissue laser surgery is accomplished simply by rebalancing the amount of gum tissue that is exposed in relationship to the amount of tooth structure that is showing and recontouring the gums around each tooth to appear balanced. Patients having soft-tissue laser therapy heal quickly and without the discomfort associated with traditional periodontal gum surgery done with anesthetic. Additional information regarding cosmetic dental procedures may be found at
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Are you brushing right?

The first step is to choose a good toothbrush. You always want to use a soft brush with a small head. A soft brush is hard enough to remove plaque and soft enough not to damage your teeth or gum.
The next issue is to choose a good toothpaste. In general any toothpaste that contains Fluoride will do the job, unless you have a special need that is determined by your dentist. Two of the best brands of toothpastes are Colgate Total and Crest Multicare.
The first rule of brushing is to start from a specific location and work your way to the opposite side and all the way through the whole mouth so that you end where you started. This way you won’t miss any area. Also usually a pea size of tooth paste is enough. A good brushing should at lease take 2 minutes and ideally around 4 minutes.
There are many different techniques for brushing your teeth but one of the most popular ones is described here:
Hold the brush with a 45 degree angle toward the teeth and the gum. Gently press against the gum so the tips of the bristles go in between the gum and the teeth. Then apply lateral vibration for a few times and roll down the brush to sweep the plaque away from the teeth and the gum. Repeat this motion 6 to 10 times and move on to the next area of 2 to 3 teeth. If your mouth is full of foam, spit out and continue brushing. Your brushing is completed when you have brushed all the surfaces of your teeth and not when your mouth is full!
On chewing surfaces, short strokes will work best to get the plaque out of the grooves and pits. Also when brushing the front teeth from inside, hold your brush vertically to be able to reach the teeth better.
As far as frequency of brushing is concerned, ideally you want to brush your teeth after each meal. But if you can t, brush at least twice a day after breakfast and before going to bed.

Dental Financing

Dental Financing - there are many dental treatment payment plans available through various finance companies.

Finance Your Veneers Over the Years!

The biggest obstacle that gets in the way of major dental work is money. You either have it up front or you don't! There are different wants and needs relating to your smile. Want based dentistry is most often cosmetic and with any esthetic procedure, there is an out of pocket expense that has to be paid up front to the dentist.

Dental Financing companies have been popping up everywhere to cash in on the makeover boom. More and more people will do anything to get a new smile. The great news is you the consumer have options. Two of the biggest companies in the dental financing biz are Dental Fee Plan and Care Credit. Both are large companies that have thousands of dentists referring patients to their service. Are they the only companies will to loan you money for dental work. No. There are finance companies owned by banks and there are independent dental finance brokers that work with multple lenders that have a little more flexibility to shop around and find you the best interest rate.

Is Dental Financing Worth It? Should You Wait?

The biggest question to ask yourself is: "How important is my smile and how will having a better or improved smile affect me? There can be thousands of different answers to this question. The first that comes to mind is increased self esteem and confidence. Smiles affect both our personal and professional lives and have a dramatic effect on how people perceive your personality. We finance many other goods and services, cars, homes, furniture etc. so why not make an investment in yourself? Makes sense, because the biggest asset anyone has is themselves!! If you can afford a monthly payment and it will not cause undue hardship on your personal finances, dental financing may be worth taking a look at.

What Kinds of Dental Treatment Can Be Financed?

Most dental finance companies will loan you money for most cosmetic procedures. Porcelain veneers, dental implants, orthodontics, invisibles braces and restorative dentistry procedures can be financed.

How Do I Get Financing for Dental Treatment if I Have Poor Credit History?

So, if dental financing is the answer to getting your treatment completed and you have bad credit you'll have to get a co-signer. There are multiple lenders in the market and some focus on helping people who have had bad credit history get financing for a variety of reasons, not just for dental care. Some banks may decline your application but others may approve you, except that you'll probably be paying a higher interest rate. Shop around, money is money and you will be paying regardless of what dental financing company you go with. Interest rates today are still relatively low compared to previous years. Make sure you get a competitive rate if that's the path you choose to follow. With a co-signer you may increase your chances of getting approved and have the option to exercise the loan for your dental treatment.

Teeth Whitening Brings Self-confidence and Happier Lifestyle to Millions

When you think of a really happy and successful person, you envision a smartly dressed individual who’s full of energy and always ready to give a radiant smile. If you are not happy with your smile you tend to hold back and not smile. The negative energy you give affects every aspect of your life – your relationships, your career, your well-being. Simple whitening with Zoom! Advanced can transform a smile’s brightness, and we also offer complete smile makeovers.

Dental hygiene students learn the importance of good nutrition

Students at the University of Southern California's (USC) Dental Hygiene Program are being taught about the importance of passing on good lifestyle habits to their patients.

While some may believe that good tooth care is just about brushing and flossing regularly, the would-be dental hygienists are learning a more holistic approach to dental health, the Los Angeles Downtown News reports.

Diane Melrose, chair of the program, revealed that students working at the Dental Hygiene Clinic liaise with patients to put together a five-day diet diary, which allows them to examine nutritional habits and suggest changes that could be made to improve the health of their teeth.

She told the newspaper that she advises patients to look out for hidden sugars, such as those found in chewing gum, fruit juice, chips and even certain medicines.

It was recently revealed that energy and sports drinks are the worst kind of sodas for eroding tooth enamel, particularly in children and adolescents.

Chinese Dental Labs Turn Lead into Gold…?

When a 73-year-old Ohio woman fell ill, the news made national headlines. It wasn’t old age, or pneumonia, or cancer, or anything else you might expect. She had gotten lead poisoning from her new dental bridge.

Though she’d visited an American dentist, the bridge itself had been fabricated by a Chinese lab. Let me assure you that this is major news.

Your dentist is only as good as his or her dental laboratory

In my practice I am very selective of the laboratories that I work with. The best results come from having a relationship with a knowledgeable dental laboratory that has both expertise and access to all the latest materials.

Are people with whiter teeth smarter?

A new study by the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry (AACD) reveals that people with a whiter-than-white smile are perceived smarter than duller-toothed counterparts!

The study – carried out in the States via the internet – was aimed at ascertaining what impact attractive teeth have on perceptions of an individual's appearance and personality and used ‘before and after' pictures of people who had undergone cosmetic surgery.

No respondent ever saw the same person with both a ‘before' and ‘after' smile but all respondents viewed the same set of eight individuals.

After seeing each picture, respondents rated each person on the following attributes:

• Attractive
• Intelligent
• Happy
• Successful in their career
• Friendly
• Interesting
• Kind
• Wealthy
• Popular with the opposite sex
• Sensitive to other people

Respondents used a 1 to 10 scale where a ‘1' represents ‘not at all' and a ‘10' represents ‘extremely.'

The statistical analysis demonstrates that there is a major effect of a smile on perceptions of all major attributes.

In each case, people are viewed as more attractive, intelligent, happy, successful in their career, friendly, interesting, kind, wealthy and popular with the opposite sex with smiles that have been altered by cosmetic dentistry versus their original smiles.