Smile Makeover

Cosmetic dental crowns offer a strong and reinforcing outer 'cap' to protect damaged, cracked or broken teeth when a filling will not suffice. This will enable you to chew with comfort and smile with confidence. As they encompass the remaining 'core' of your natural tooth underneath, they reduce your risk of further breakages, and meanwhile rebuild the tooth's natural shape. A dental crown covers the entire tooth surface all the way to the gum line. You can always be assured that our approach is as preservative as possible.

Modern dentistry means that a bright and confident smile is now an accessible and affordable luxury for everyone. Tooth whitening is a quick and safe way to refresh and transform your smile – resulting in a healthy and more youthful appearance. Treatment is pain-free and convenient and results can be seen from the first application.

Your dentist will take impressions of your teeth and special trays will be made for you. Your dentist will supply you with a home whitening kit, show you how to use it and give you full instructions. After a 2 or 3 week period, depending on your requirements your dentist will then review your whitening progress. Tooth whitening is safe and suitable for use on the majority of people. It is normally possible to remove stains from most teeth – even those that are considered dead due to root damage.

Teeth with particularly bad staining as a result of tetracycline or fluorosis may not respond to treatment – or may require several doses. Prosthetic devices such as crowns, fillings, dentures and bridges can’t be whitened, but your dentist can offer simple solutions to this. Treatment should be pain-free although you may notice a slight increase in sensitivity of the teeth and gums which should improve within 24 hours of treatment finishing.

Professional tooth whitening is a safe, predictable and non-destructive way to rapidly brighten your smile. So many of our patients tell us that they didn't realise how much of a boost to their self-confidence it would bring until after they had tried professional whitening. We offer a number of solutions to controllably achieve the result you desire to achieve a natural-looking result.

The envisage team has a wealth of experience in providing a number of tooth whitening systems, and we have carried out post-graduate training to ensure we can offer care which puts your health and wellbeing at the core of everything we do. As always, we treat your mouth as we would treat our own and help you bring out the best version of yourself.

A veneer is a thin layer of tooth coloured material put onto the front of a tooth to make it look better. The tooth might have been damaged by decay or accident or be discoloured. Our highly trained team of dentists can offer life changing treatment through dentistry with clear results. Veneers are a way of transforming your smile and bringing out the best version in you!

Our dental team has invested in many hours of post-graduate education to develop the skill and artistic flair needed to create cosmetic white fillings that look and feel fantastic. By choosing these fillings, you can smile, talk, laugh, and eat in complete confidence knowing that your teeth look perfectly natural.

We increasingly find that our clients opt for tooth-coloured ("composite") fillings instead of grey-looking ("amalgam") or gold fillings, as they not only restore the strength of your tooth by adhering to the tooth, but also retain the aesthetics of your smile. Cosmetic fillings can be matched to the shade, translucency and even the texture of your natural teeth, making them almost unnoticeable.

Unlike silver amalgam restorations, white composite restorations stick to the teeth meaning they are often used to repair chipped, broken or decayed teeth (especially at the front of your mouth). Our dental clinicians may sometimes use white restorations for back teeth if there is not too much decay or damage.

Porcelain veneers are hand crafted, often wafer thin and cover the front surface of the tooth, and they are used to rectify many defects and irregularities. Porcelain veneers are a cosmetic dental to solution to improving the appearance of your teeth in a very short period of time. A veneer is a very thin layer of porcelain applied to the front surface of your tooth to improve its’ appearance and disguise the irregularities underneath.

We use veneers to correct a number of concerns, whether your teeth are crooked, uneven, chipped, gapped, protruding or discoloured. The number of veneers you have will depend on the level of perfection you are looking for. Usually we veneer the teeth from the centre outwards, and do them in multiples of two so that you always have symmetry.

In most cases just 2 pain-free appointments are needed to complete the veneering process. The appointments last on average 90 minutes. We endeavour to make the whole experience as pain-free and relaxed as possible. Modern techniques mean that, even if you do require local anaesthetic, this can be undertaken with the minimum amount of discomfort – no more than a scratch is all you will feel, and you’ll be able to return to work pretty much straight away.

This treatment is often known as contouring of teeth. Tooth reshaping involves careful adjustment to your teeth to create better shapes and sizes to enhance your smile. Tooth reshaping can either be done alone, or in conjunction with porcelain veneers to correct other teeth shapes. Tooth reshaping involves a tooth being contoured or filed into a slightly better shape to make it look better. The tips of your teeth can often be a little out of shape, or one tooth is a little longer than another, and filing the tip slightly, can improve the appearance of your tooth and your smile.

Tooth contouring is commonly used when the upper teeth have been veneered, and you want to improve the appearance of the lower teeth without having to veneer them. Often your lower teeth can be a little bit crooked, and filing the tips of them along the biting edge can give them the illusion of them being straighter.