SMILE DESIGN
If you are unhappy about any aspect of your teeth we can offer you a number of options to achieve the glowing healthy smile you desire.
Whether it's slightly crooked teeth, an unsightly gap or a missing tooth right in the middle we can put together a comprehensive treatment plan to get you to where you want to be.
In this short video Dr Ahmed Khalid, a dentist here in our Glasgow practice explains how it works.
People come to us for smile design for numerous reasons. It could be they have discoloured teeth. It could be they feel their teeth are overcrowded. It could be they feel they don't show enough of their tooth when they smile. It could be they feel that actually when they smile they've got prominent front teeth. It could be they've got missing teeth.
It could be a lot of reasons but no matter what the reason is we basically take their individual problems and then we, stage by stage, help to achieve their ideal smile.
Smile Makeover
How do we go about getting you from wherever you are to where you want to be, your final result? So we first have to stabilise you. Do you have gum disease? Have you got decay? Have you got infections? We have to stabilise everything first because these things will be problematic during the part where we are constructing your smile.
Then we will look at, for example, are your teeth in the ideal position? If they're not, then we'll set about putting them in the ideal position. And we've got a few ways we can do that, whether it's clear aligners, whether it's fixed braces, things like that.
When we've got everything nice and stable and you have your teeth where you want them to be, well maybe your teeth are a bit misshapen or maybe you have missing teeth. Then we have a few ways of sorting this. The best way is through dental implants.
Designing Your Smile
During the healing process, we'll designing your ideal smile. So we'll then liaise with the dental laboratory and we'll get what's called a mock-up done. We'll then be able to attach that mock-up in place and you'll be able to see what the end result's going to look like. Show your parents, show your partner, show whoever and if necessary we'll the changes.
Once you are happy with everything and once enough healing has occurred post-treatment, we'll then move on to creating the final result for you. This could involve dental crowns, porcelain veneers or finalising the implant crowns. And then you're done within a few weeks at that point.