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Cosmetic dentistry

Cosmetic dentistry changes how your teeth look: their color, shape, size, spacing, or the line of your gums. It’s for teeth that are healthy but bother you. That might be a chipped front tooth, a small gap, stains that brushing won’t remove, or teeth that look short or worn.

Most cosmetic care is a choice, not a medical need, so it’s worth taking slowly. Each option has a trade-off. Whitening doesn’t change the color of crowns, fillings, or veneers, and bonding can stain or chip over time. Veneers usually mean removing a thin layer of enamel (the hard outer layer of a tooth), and that can’t be undone.

Every plan starts with an exam. Cavities and gum disease are treated first, because cosmetic work needs healthy teeth and gums underneath it. Then Dr. Minici asks what you’d like to change. He walks you through your options, including the simplest one and leaving things as they are.

Each treatment below has its own page. It explains what happens at each visit, what it feels like, and what affects the cost.

Care is provided byDr. James Minici, general dentist.

Treatments

  • Porcelain veneers

    Thin porcelain shells bonded to the front of teeth to change their color, shape, or size, for chips, gaps, and stains that whitening can’t fix.

  • Teeth whitening

    A bleaching gel lightens the natural color of your teeth. It works on stains from age, coffee, tea, and tobacco, but not on crowns or fillings.

  • Cosmetic bonding

    Tooth-colored resin shaped onto a tooth to fix small chips, gaps, and stains, often in one visit and with little or no enamel removed.

  • Gum contouring

    Reshaping the gumline to even it out or show more of each tooth, for gums that cover too much of your teeth or sit unevenly.

  • Smile makeovers

    A plan that combines treatments such as whitening, bonding, veneers, or aligners to change several things about your smile, in a sensible order.

A veneer on a front tooth, seen from the sideSide view of an upper front tooth cut in half from front to back, with its root in the bone and the gum around it. A thin veneer (shaded) covers the front surface, from just below the gumline to the biting edge.
  • Gum
  • Tooth
  • Veneer
A veneer is a thin shell bonded to the front of a tooth. Often only a thin layer of enamel, the hard outer layer, is removed so the veneer fits.

An exam is how we find out what’s right for you.

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Tell us a little about what’s going on, and we’ll call you to find a time.

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