Smile Enhancement
Have you dreamed of having the perfect smile? A beautiful smile can improve your self-confidence and make a more impactful statement on those around you. If you have a career in communications or sales, you know the power of a great smile.
We start with a consultation and planning appointment in which we ask you to describe the smile you desire. We use this information to design your new smile, and can show you the way it will look before treatment is started! In as little as two more appointments, Dr. Pappas and his team can give you the smile you have always wanted.
The shape, size, position, and color of your teeth are beautified with using porcelain laminate veneers. Veneers are artistically fabricated porcelain coverings that are bonded to your natural teeth. They are strong and beautiful, correcting chipped, worn, discolored, or crooked teeth. These thin porcelain shells are safer and more conservative than crowns because the process frequently requires little or no reshaping of the original tooth. Because these are metal free restorations, you don’t have to worry about the dark lines that are often visible in people’s smiles.
Ask Dr. Pappas or a team member about how porcelain veneers can give you the smile you’ve dreamed of…
Bonding
Cosmetic bonding is a very conservative method of correcting small gaps or minor chips on front teeth. With carefully color matched composite resin technology; Dr Pappas can fill in and recontour esthetic discrepancies in your front teeth to help you look your best.
Whitening
Years of coffee, tea, and food stains can build-up on our teeth leaving a dull and unattractive look. Whitening can erase these stains leaving our teeth looking their natural whitest. Whitening can be accomplished at home over a number of days or weeks, or in our office in as little as an hour.
Zoom! is one of the safest, most effective, and inexpensive methods of whitening your teeth in less than an hour. While relaxing in our office, you can have youthful brilliance restored to your teeth. Studies show that Zoom! can lighten your teeth up to 8 shades in less than an hour, safely and comfortably.
Recontouring
Sometimes small alterations made to long or misshapen teeth can result in amazing esthetic improvements. If you have teeth that appear too long, are slightly crowded, or have rough or uneven edges, minor adjustments may improve the appearance of your smile, and can even improve their function. Ask Dr. Pappas or his team if you are a candidate for aesthetic dental recontouring.
Invisalign
Orthodontic treatment (braces) has been used to treat crowded misaligned teeth for years. Many patients know that braces would help improve the appearance, function, and cleansability of their teeth, but hesitate to begin treatment because they don’t like the look of traditional orthodontic bands, brackets, and wires.
Invisalign uses a series of clear aligners that are custom-molded to fit you. The virtually invisible aligners gradually reposition your teeth into a smile you'll be proud of. Not only are the aligners unobtrusive, but they can be removed for eating, brushing, and flossing, an advantage over traditional braces.
TMJ Therapy
The temporomandibular joint, or TMJ, is the hinge joint that connects our upper and lower jaws. TMJ dysfunction is a condition often associated with a clicking or grating sensation in the jaw joint, facial muscle pain, or migraine headaches. The symptoms can range from mildly annoying to very painful. There is often a direct relationship between TMJ pain and nighttime tooth clenching or grinding. With careful examination, sometimes requiring special models of the upper and lower jaws, Dr. Pappas may be able to suggest treatment to decrease or eliminate the pain associated with TMJ pain.