Smile File -Summer 2006

The Wow Factor

Choose to improve with advanced esthetics

Chicago porcelain veneers It's true. You can choose to look and feel better. Advances in cosmetic dentistry take only a minimal investment of your time, and the rewards in wellbeing and self-confidence are well worth it. You can choose to trade in your tarnished smile for a smile that will wow everyone - including yourself.

Tea, coffee, red wine, or tobacco can gradually leave surface stains that are easy to remove with professional intervention. While age or inherited dull tooth enamel can also dim your smile, you don't have to live with it! Advanced esthetics can also boost smiles that have lost their sparkle due to root canal treatments, fluorosis, or tetracycline use. Here's what some of the most popular cosmetic dental treatments can do for your smile...

Erase unattractive stains for a brighter smile with teeth whitening.

Banish silver-colored fillings with white fillings made from durable and completely natural-looking materials including white composite.

Camouflage discoloration and chips or overlapping and uneven teeth with veneers that are affixed to the front surfaces of your natural teeth. These extremely thin but strong porcelain shells can actually improve the proportions of your smile by re-shaping your teeth and/ or your gumline.

Replace missing teeth with dental implants, an esthetically attractive alternative to dentures and bridges that looks completely natural.

Choose to call for a consultation and find out more about your advanced esthetic options!

All Cracked Up?

Because they are most noticeable in the front teeth, craze lines can make patients crazy! When you switch quickly between eating and drinking hot and cold foods, the enamel and the underlying dentin expand and contract at slightly different rates causing superficial cracks in your enamel. These unattractive craze lines are painless, and treating them cosmetically is a simple matter.

A cracked tooth is more serious. Do any of your teeth hurt when you bite down? Is the pain fleeting? Do very cold or hot drinks cause sharp pain? You may have a cracked tooth - a common condition caused by years of biting, clenching, and grinding, or because of an accident.

Pain? Sensitivity? Call us and let the dentist diagnose ... and give you relief!

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Dr. Thomas L. Meyer - Providing services in cosmetic dentistry, porcelain veneers and teeth whitening to the areas of Chicago and Des Plaines, Illinois.