Has your smile started to lose its original bright shade? If stains or discoloration are taking hold of your teeth, exploring your options for returning their original hue can satisfy you. Although most sources of dental staining have simple cosmetic effects, they may cause others to question your hygienic practices. This means that taking a proactive approach toward brightening your teeth can have quite the boost for your self-confidence. With the aid of a professional whitening treatment or set of porcelain veneers, we can quickly turn your smile around in one or two visits to our practice.
At Sunny Smiles Family Dentistry, we complement our array of restorative services with cosmetic techniques to provide a full suite of dental options. That means you can count on us for your general cleanings, prosthetic needs, and treatments to lift your smile shade in the same office. In today’s blog, we explore the situations that call for teeth whitening or porcelain veneers to enhance your grin.
When Stains Take Hold Of Your Smile
The way your teeth build stains can vary, but learning the common causes can help you preserve your white smile by making alterations to your behavior. Certain factors are uncontrollable like your genetics, while a large contributor to the color of your teeth is the diet you enjoy. If you drink coffee, soda, tea, or wine, pay attention to any marks left on the surface of your enamel afterward. Consider switching drinks if you notice stains left behind. Similarly, tobacco use in all of its forms can leave dark, tarry streaks on the surface of your teeth. This is one of many reasons you should cease tobacco use.
Professional Whitening
When you schedule a consult, we will examine your smile to determine the nature of your discoloration. For teeth whose stains lie within the enamel, we may suggest a professional whitening session to bleach out the pigment inside your surface layer. For your convenience, we offer a take-home kit with a professional-grade gel to return your smile’s white color.
Porcelain Veneers
If we see that yellow teeth are a result of loss of your teeth’s enamel, we may suggest placing porcelain veneers to cover your smile imperfections. This versatile method can improve cracks, chips, discoloration, minor spacing issues, and lost height due to grinding in a single treatment. Moving forward, we will take careful measurements of all oral structures to design your custom set of dental caps. We send the design to an offsite lab for fabrication and then place your treatment at a follow-up visit.
TALK TO YOUR DENTIST AT SUNNY SMILES ABOUT REMOVING YOUR TEETH STAINS
If you would like to improve the color of your teeth, explore your cosmetic treatment options. To find out more about how we can fight stains, please contact our Sunny Smiles location on N Zaragoza Rd in El Paso, TX at (915) 849-9000.