{"id":142,"date":"2011-01-12T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/dental-advice\/the-future-of-cosmetic-dentistry\/"},"modified":"2019-06-14T13:04:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T12:04:21","slug":"the-future-of-cosmetic-dentistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/the-future-of-cosmetic-dentistry\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future Of Cosmetic Dentistry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy New Year! May 2011 bring you plenty of smiles and only pleasant dental experiences.<\/p>\n

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I have been fortunate\u00a0to enjoy a few conversations\u00a0in the last 4 -5 weeks with both patients and colleagues that makes me think that the future of Cosmetic Dentistry<\/a> is changing. The change may be coming from within dentistry its self but\u00a0 I also think it is a wider phenomenon.<\/div>\n

Whether this is the effect of\u00a0so called “austerity” Britain or just a realisation that on planet earth we need to conserve our resources, \u00a0it seems that\u00a0 many \u00a0people are looking to achieve more with fewer resources in all areas of their lives and dentistry appears to be no exception.<\/p>\n

In the heyday of full on cosmetics as typified by extreme type makeover programmes, we saw porcelain veneers\u00a0 and crowns being fitted like they were going out of fashion. If the teeth were not in the right position, then porcelain (from which these items are usually made) could sort the proble<\/p>\n

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m out. The only down side is that whenever you prepare a tooth for a crown or prepare it heavily for a veneer then you run a risk of killing the nerve inside the tooth. Depending on whose research you believe\u00a0 between 5 and 15% of all teeth prepared this way will eventually die. So it is little wonder that more and more patients and dentists have been asking what the alternatives to crowns or porcelain veneers are.<\/p>\n

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Please don’t misunderstand me,\u00a0\u00a0porcelain veneers<\/a> are not intrinsically bad and if they are well placed and delicately prepared they can\u00a0produce fabulous long lasting results. In patients prone to tooth staining they may indeed be the best restoration for the job but in many other cases resin bonding which adds highly polishable white filling material to the teeth can achieve\u00a0similar results.<\/div>\n
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In situations where teeth are a long way out of position more patients are tending to align the teeth first to improve their overall position before they have the final veneers or bonds placed. This in turn reduces how much tooth needs to be removed. Though it may add 12-18 weeks to treatment time, is this really an issue when you are looking fro results to last for years and years?<\/p>\n

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Either way our practice goals is\u00a0 to discuss all available options with\u00a0our patients and the nature of those conversations is changing.\u00a0In the past many people came to see us asking\u00a0 specifically for porcelain veneers but after careful consideration of all of the options many patients chose either\u00a0\u00a0short term orthodontics like the Inman Aligner<\/a> or \u00a0Resin\u00a0 Bonding as their ideal solution. Many more of our conversations now start with\u00a0us being asked\u00a0\u00a0 about resin bonding and Inman aligners, a real change\u00a0 from a few years ago…… maybe the good news about minimally invasive cosmetic dentistry is\u00a0 spreading.<\/div>\n
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My Tip<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
Be sure you look at every option before choosing a treatment<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Think how you wlould like your smile to look.<\/div>\n
Now look at\u00a0what you want to change about your smile<\/div>\n
Then should\u00a0\u00a0ask what are all of the ways\u00a0 this\u00a0 can be achieved?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy New Year! May 2011 bring you plenty of smiles and only pleasant dental experiences. I have been fortunate\u00a0to enjoy a few conversations\u00a0in the last 4 -5 weeks with both patients and colleagues that makes me think that the future of Cosmetic Dentistry is changing. The change may be coming from within dentistry its self … Continue reading The Future Of Cosmetic Dentistry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}