4 Reasons Your Smile Makeover Starts With a Cosmetic Consultation

Smiling happens for a lot of different reasons, many of which aren’t related to feeling happy. While joy can bring a smile to your face, so can a set of complex emotions that includes interest, boredom, frustration, and engagement during social interactions. Whether you do it to show joy, confidence, or another feeling, the appearance of your teeth plays a vital role.

Even with proper oral hygiene, many factors can change how teeth look, and to help you feel more willing to share your smile with others, dental makeovers can improve their appearance and boost your self-esteem. However, before you undergo the treatments to make your teeth look better, a consultation is essential.

Dr. Elena Davidson and her experienced staff at Davidson Dental Group help residents of San Leandro, Castro Valley, Oakland, California, and the surrounding areas with numerous dental issues, including a variety of options to improve the appearance of teeth.

Common reasons for improving teeth

Various conditions, injuries, diets, and lifestyle habits can affect how teeth look, resulting in issues like:

• Discolored teeth: Food and drink stains, smoking, or oral disease can change the color of tooth enamel.

• Cavities: These occur when harmful bacteria get under the enamel and damage the inner layers of teeth.

• Chips, cracks, or breaks: Oral disease or injury can cause teeth to chip or break in various ways.

• Teeth misalignment: Also called malocclusions, these happen when teeth don’t fit on the jaw properly.

• Bruxism: This is the formal term for grinding teeth, which many people do under stress or while sleeping.

While common cosmetic concerns, many of these issues can also cause pain, tooth sensitivity, and, left untreated, damage to the gums and jaws. 

Smile makeover treatments

To help your teeth look better, we offer these options for your smile makeover:

Teeth whitening

To manage issues with discoloration of teeth, we use Phillips Zoom! to remove stains and brighten teeth.

Dental bonding

This helps to treat pits, cracks, and chips in teeth using a tooth-colored composite resin that looks as natural as the rest of your teeth.

Clear aligners

For managing mild to moderate problems with things like overbite, underbite, crossbite, and gapped teeth, Invisalign® and ClearCorrect™ can move teeth into position while going virtually unnoticed.

Veneers

To cover stains, cracks, and other imperfections in teeth, these shells bond to teeth permanently and improve their appearance.

Dental implants

Implants are placed directly into the jaw and are used like your natural teeth.

Crowns

Damaged or broken teeth can be covered with crowns, and we even offer same-day crowns from our on-site device.

How a dental consultation helps

If you’re interested in exploring how our solutions for improving teeth can help you, you’ll need to begin with a consultation. Here’s why that’s so important:

1. Building trust

Everything begins with confidence, and your dental health is no different. If you’re coming to us for the first time, a consultation before we treat you helps to establish trust.

2. Personalizing treatment

Each person has different needs and expectations from cosmetic dental treatments. A consultation helps us to design the whole process with you in mind.

3. Making better decisions

Whether you heard about a treatment from a friend or received advice from another office, if we’re going to help you improve your teeth, we want you to have the facts, so our consultations will help address them and answer any questions you have.

4. Knowing what to expect

This allows us to give you realistic expectations about your results based on your dental health and needs. We never want you to go into a procedure without understanding what the outcome is going to be.

Smile makeovers can offer results that make you feel better about showing your teeth, and that starts with a proper consultation before the first treatment. Call or message us today to make an appointment with our office in San Leandro, California.