COSMETIC DENTISTRY
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Advanced Cosmetic Dentistry

Open Up Your Smile To The World

Share your smile with those around you; a great smile can ease you into new social situations. 

But if your smile makes you uncomfortable or embarrassed or if you're hiding your teeth and giving others the wrong impression about your personality, let the cosmetic dentistry services at Harvey H Breckner DMD MS set things right.
Porcelain veneers

Various Treatments To Choose From

Choose from an array of advanced cosmetic dental solutions that will improve your smile and, more importantly, bring you renewed confidence.
  • Porcelain veneers
  • Composite white fillings
  • All-ceramic inlays and onlays
  • Bonding and whitening
  • Metal-free, all-ceramic crowns
White teeth

Porcelain Veneers Offer Fast Results

Used quite frequently in cosmetic dental procedures, dental veneers – also called porcelain veneers – are thin, custom-made shells of tooth-colored material that cover the front surface of your teeth and immediately improve your appearance.

When the veneers are bonded in place, they change the color, shape, size, and length of your natural teeth. They are a great choice for addressing a variety of issues.
  • Worn-down teeth
  • Chipped or broken teeth
  • Misaligned, uneven, or irregularly-shaped teeth
  • Teeth with gaps between them
Veneers also are a proper choice when your teeth are discolored, no matter what has caused the damage.
  • Root canal treatments
  • Stains from tetracycline or other drugs
  • Excessive fluoride or other causes
  • The presence of large resin fillings that have discolored the tooth
Cosmetic dentistry

Composite Fillings Restore Decayed Teeth

If your teeth have decayed, composite fillings may help restore their appearance. A mixture of plastic and glass, composites also can improve your smile by changing the color of your teeth or even by reshaping them when they are disfigured.

Aesthetics are the main advantage of composites because the doctor can blend shades to create a nearly-identical match to your actual tooth color. Composites also bond to the tooth to support the remaining structure and can help prevent breakage. 

They can also insulate the tooth from excessive temperature changes, thereby reducing problems with tooth pain.
Teeth whitening

Bonding And Whitening Repairs To Tooth Damage

Another cosmetic dental procedure for restoring or improving your smile is dental bonding. A resilient plastic material is applied to your tooth and then hardened using a special light that bonds the material to the tooth.

Dental bonding is useful in treating a range of issues.
  • Repairing decayed teeth after composite resins are used to fill cavities
  • Repairing chipped or cracked teeth
  • Closing the spaces between teeth
  • Making your teeth look longer
  • Changing the shape of your teeth
  • Providing a cosmetic alternative to amalgam fillings
  • Protecting a portion of your tooth's root after it has been exposed by receding gums
Teeth

Ceramic Crowns For Your Front Teeth

Metal-free, all-ceramic crowns give you the most natural color match of any crown process, which makes them particularly appropriate for covering your front teeth. 

Like all dental crowns, they are a tooth-shaped cap that is placed over your existing tooth to restore its shape, size, and strength, and to improve its appearance.

All-ceramic dental crowns treat a variety of situations.
  • Protecting a weak or decaying tooth from breaking
  • Restoring an already broken tooth or a tooth that has been severely worn-down
  • Covering and supporting a tooth with a large filling when there isn't a lot of tooth material left
  • Holding a dental bridge in place or covering a dental implant
  • Covering misshaped or severely-discolored teeth

Precision-Fit All-Ceramic Inlays And Onlays

In place of dental composites or mercury-based amalgams, all-ceramic inlays and onlays restore posterior teeth by bonding to the tooth surface through specifically-designed composites. They are usually custom-made in a dental laboratory and provide a precision fit, as well as optimum appearance and strength.

If you would like to schedule an appointment for cosmetic dentistry or would like more information, call 618-307-3267 or contact us now.
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Dr. Harvey H Breckner offers over 25 years of experience in both general and advanced dentistry.
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