COSMETIC DENTISTRY IN OAK RIDGE
Cosmetic Dentistry in Oak Ridge, TN
Improve your smile with quick, painless, and affordable treatments.
Chapter 01
What bothers people about their smile
Most people who ask about cosmetic work point to the same few things. Enamel that has stained from coffee, tea or years of wear. A chipped edge that catches your tongue. Dark metal fillings that show when you laugh. A gap that has always bugged you. None of these are emergencies, but all of them are worth a conversation at Premier Dental in Oak Ridge.
Improve Your Smile with Cosmetic Dentistry Services is how the office puts it, and the idea behind it is modest: quick, painless, and affordable treatments that fix what bothers you without turning your face into someone else's. Start by telling Dr. Lee what you notice when you look in the mirror. The right option is usually obvious once he can see the tooth.
Covered entrance of the Premier Dental Associates office in Oak Ridge, with a black bench beside the front door
Composite Fillings, Porcelain Crowns and Bridges
Composite Fillings are the tooth-colored kind, and they've largely replaced the silver look for good reason. The material is bonded to the tooth and shaded to match, so a repair on a front tooth or a visible molar blends in. If an old metal filling is failing anyway, replacing it with composite is a natural moment to clean up the look.
Porcelain Crowns cover a tooth that is cracked, worn down or heavily filled, and they restore its shape and strength from the outside. Bridges close the space left by a missing tooth, and the ones offered at Premier Dental are porcelain fused to metal, which pairs the strength of the metal underneath with a tooth-colored surface you actually see.
Chapter 03
Porcelain Veneers, Teeth Whitening and keeping the result
Porcelain Veneers are thin shells bonded to the front of a tooth, and they're the tool for chips, gaps and stubborn discoloration that whitening can't touch. Teeth Whitening is the simpler route when the shade is the only complaint. Whitening lightens the enamel you already have, so it works best on natural teeth, and it won't change a crown or filling.
Whatever you choose, plan on keeping it up. Whitening fades faster if you drink a lot of coffee or tea, so touch-ups are normal. Veneers and crowns need the same cleanings and exams as natural teeth, since the tooth underneath and the gum around it can still decay or get inflamed. The front desk at Premier Dental, (865) 483-1323, can set up a time to look at what fits your mouth.
Premier Dental Associates: 5.0 on Google from 523 reviews. Ask the front desk at (865) 483-1323 which treatment fits.