Cosmetic dentistry is all about giving you the smile you want.  We analyze every aspect of your smile, from tooth size, shape, and color to lip line, arch form, and facial shape.  Whether it be simple whitening and minor tooth reshaping to crowning and veneers, we can correct most problems.

Veneers

Veneers are composed of thin porcelain shells. This natural looking material typically only covers the front, sides, and biting surfaces of a tooth. This allows us to eliminate any gaps, spaces, chips, or crooked teeth. At the same time, we can also improve the shade of your teeth. Veneers have also been referred to as "instant orthodontia". This is because veneers can instantly straighten your teeth during two appointments lasting a few hours, not months or years like traditional orthodontia. When bonded into place, veneers will give you a beautiful and natural looking, and feeling, smile.

Whitening

There are many different options when it comes to bleaching your teeth. Our preferred method consists of at home bleaching with custom trays made in our laboratory.  Swoverland Dentistry dispenses Nite White bleaching solution. Available strengths of bleaching solution are:

-22% (for up to one hour of bleaching)

-16% (for up to all night wear)

  

  

White Fillings

Tooth colored resin restorations were developed to give a more natural look to your tooth, while also providing a more health conscious treatment over silver fillings. Not only do silver fillings contain mercury, but they also expand and fracture teeth, allowing decay to occur through leakage. Composite resins allow for a more beautiful and healthy smile.

Until recently, silver amalgam was the material most often used to restore decayed portions of your teeth, especially back teeth. Unfortunately, silver fillings can really darken a smile, and amalgam, by its very nature, can cause damage to your tooth in the long run.

Amalgam fillings absorb mosture and expand and contract with heat and cold. So, as the filling ages, it can fracture your tooth; we'll then need to place a crown on your tooth to save it. Also, silver fillings often undergo metal fatigue, corroding and leaking over time. This destroys the protective seal of the filling and allows new decay to develop underneath it. This leakage can give a gray appearance to the entire tooth.

Dental research has resulted in the development of new tooth-colored materials that are not only durable and long lasting, but attractive as well. These materials, porcelain and composite resin, provide an attractive, natural look while at the same time restoring strength and durability to your tooth.

Both porcelain and composite resin are bonded directly to the tooth, restoring it to near its original strength and function. Both can be custom-colored to precisely match your teeth, so when porcelain or resin fillings are placed, they're extremely natural looking. This can really make a difference in your appearance, especially if the restoration is visible when you smile.

When we place an amalgam filling, we have to remove extra healthy tooth structure, just so the filling will stay in place. When we restore your tooth with composite resin, we only need to remove the decayed portion, because the bond anchors the material tightly in place. This means you retain more healthy tooth structure.

Also, because white fillings are bonded to your tooth, they add strength to the tooth.

So if you're looking for an attractive and effective option for restoring one or more decayed teeth, be sure to ask us about the latest choices in white restorative materials.

  

Bonding

Bonding allows us to close spaces between teeth, reshape teeth, or lighten dark stained teeth.  We can do one tooth or an entire smile.  Bonding can usually be done in one appointment, and once in place, bonding is quite strong.  Bonding can drastically improve your smile - the final result is a beautiful and natural looking smile.

When teeth are chipped or beginning to wear, bonding can protect them from damage and restore their original looks.

Placing the tooth-colored bonding material Bonding your teeth with a material called resin requires just one appointment. First, we roughen and prepare the teeth and apply a conditioning gel. Then we place the resin, sculpt it to the desired shape, and harden it with a harmless, high-intensity light.

Once in place, bonded restorations are very strong. Bonding can drastically improve your smile -- the final result is beautiful and natural looking teeth.

Bridges

Bridges are used to replace on or more missing teeth.  We prefer bridgework bonded to the remaining teeth not those that are removable.  Just as in other aspects of dentistry, the use of metal is being minimalized in bridge work.  Thanks to improved bonding cements and improved porcelains, we can now make bridges with the natural look and feel of your teeth, and no longer have the darkness at the edges that use to occur with metals.

A tooth-colored bridge may be made of both porcelain and metal, or, thanks to newly available technology, it may be made entirely of porcelain.

Recent breakthroughs in adhesives, combined with the development of stronger porcelain materials, allow us to make bridges entirely out of porcelain. All-porcelain bridges maintain a translucency that makes them hard to tell from natural teeth. Without metal, the problem of a dark line at the edge of the gums is eliminated. This allows us to place the edge of the bridge above the gumline, and that's healthier for your teeth and gums.

When you want to improve your smile, all-porcelain bridges are a beautiful and natural looking choice.

Bridges In the past, porcelain bridges were always built upon a metal core. That was the only way they could have enough strength to withstand the tremendous biting forces that are exerted on all of your teeth. That metal core is what creates the dark blue line at the edge of many bridges.

Crowns

  

Cutting edge technology, combined with custom laboratory craftsmanship or CEREC 3D CAD/ CAM technology, makes bonded crowns a strong, but cosmetic and aesthetically pleasing, treatment for worn, broken, and damaged teeth. Not only can we treat your tooth more conservatively, but, by placing a custom fit bonded crown we can protect the remaining healthy portions of your tooth, strengthening, and restoring your smile to its fullest.

Making a crown is now easier than ever, thanks to CEREC. This technology allows for one appointment crowns, saving you the need for a second appointment. The entire process takes roughly 90 minutes, with the porcelain restoration being milled in our labratory.

(there is another document just on Crowns)

Full Mouth Reconstruction

For those that want the perfect smile, full mouth reconstruction may be an option. Guided by the Golden Proportions, we are now able to design you a perfectly proportioned smile. You are involved completely in the design process and can even view a 3D model of what your final teeth will look like before we begin your physical reconstruction. These models, or waxups, can be modified so that you are perfectly happy with your final results.

Dr. Swoverland is one of roughly 450 dentists worldwide that can prepare a full mouth reconstruction in one appointment. Roughly one month later, when your final restorations have returned from the lab, Dr. Swoverland will deliver the porcelain restorations, giving you the perfect smile you have always desired, in just two visits.

Painless Injections

The Wand, from Milestone Scientific, provides a means for pain free injections. The computer controlled anesthetic pump administers a gradual level of anesthetic, minimizing pain associated with traditional injections. The device also allows the doctor to target where the anesthetic is delivered, reducing the amount needed for numbness.