Brightcare Dental offers a multitude of services to both treat and enhance your teeth. Our dental professionals have years of training and experience to accommodate the varying needs of our patients.
Our dentists also excel at cosmetic dental procedures to further enrich your smiles. From simple teeth whitening to veneers, visit us to achieve that perfect smile that you desire!
Bonding
A cosmetic procedure that can improve the appearance of teeth that are chipped, broken, cracked, stained, or have spaces between them. With bonding, tooth-colored materials are attached, or bonded, to a tooth surface. The process can improve unsightly stains from coffee, tea, tobacco or certain childhood medications; front-tooth spaces, and accident-induced cracks or chips. Bonding also is sued to protect exposed tooth roots that result from gum recession and to fill small cavities. Bonding usually lasts from three to five years.
Bridges
If you’re missing one or more teeth, you may notice a difference in chewing and speaking. There are options to help restore your smile. Bridges help maintain the shape of your face, as well as alleviating the stress in your bite by replacing missing teeth. Sometimes called a fixed partial denture, a bridge replaces missing teeth with artificial teeth, looks great, and literally bridges the gap where one or more teeth may have been. The restoration can be made from gold, alloys, porcelain or a combination of these materials and is bonded onto surrounding teeth for support.
Crowns
A crown is a good way to cover teeth that are discolored or badly shaped. While it is also used to cover a dental implant, a crown could make your tooth stronger. It can cover and support a tooth with a large filling when there isn’t enough tooth left. It can be used to attach a bridge, protect a weak tooth from breaking or restore one that’s already broken.
Enamel Shaping
A procedure that involves modifying teeth to improve their appearance by removing or contouring enamel. When teeth are slightly crowded or uneven, or when eye teeth appear too long, enamel shaping may be used to correct the flaw.
Fillings
Thanks to advances in modern dental materials and technologies, dentists have more ways to create pleasing, natural-looking smiles. In addition to traditional amalgam fillings, new composite fillings are designed to provide an “invisible” solution.
Amalgam Fillings
This is a stable ally made by combining elemental mercury, silver, tin, copper and possible other metallic elements. Because amalgam fillings can withstand very high chewing loads, they are particularly useful for restoring molars in the back of the mouth where chewing load is greatest.
Composite Filling
A mixture of glass or quartz filler in a resin medium that produces a tooth-colored filling. Composite fillings provide good durability and resistance to fracture in small-to-mid size restorations that need to withstand moderate chewing pressure. The advantage of this filling is that less of the healthy part of a tooth is removed to hold the filling in place compared to other dental restorations.
Tooth Whitening
A procedure that brightens teeth that are discolored, stained, or have been darkened because of injury. It can be performed on living teeth or teeth that have had root canal treatments.
Zoom
An in-office bleaching process that lightens discoloration of enamel and dentin. It is a simple procedure that takes about an hour for a dramatically whiter teeth. Upon a short preparation to cover the lips and gums, the clinician applies a proprietary gel to the teeth and expose them to a specifically designed light.
Veneers
Veneers are thin, custom-made shells crafted of tooth-colored materials designed to cover the front side of teeth. Made of tooth-colored materials, veneers are used to treat spaces between teeth and teeth that are permanently stained, poorly shaped or slightly crooked. They may also cover teeth that are chipped or worn.
You should know that this is usually an irreversible process, because it\'s necessary to remove a small amount of enamel from your teeth to accommodate the shell.
