Patients present regularly stating they are unhappy with their dental appearance. This can be caused by mis-shapened teeth, broken or decayed teeth, discoloured teeth, and crowded teeth, jaw shape discrepancies, missing or damaged teeth from accidents or developmental problems.
These causes have a profound effect on people's confidence, self esteem, communication and wellbeing. For many patients possible treatment options to improve their appearance have never been explained in a simple uncomplicated way.
Discoloured teeth can be from intrinsic staining, extrinsic staining, or old stained fillings. Extrinsic staining is from deposits that develop on the surface of our teeth such as food colouring, medication staining and calculus build-up. These discolourations can be removed by a dentist or hygienist.
Intrinsic staining is discolouration of the inside layers of the teeth. It can be caused by food stuff, accidents naturally darkened teeth or medication induced. These colourations can only be removed by using tooth whitening processes and in the case of accidents possible internal bleaching.