Bad Teeth - What to do with crooked, chipped, rotten and stained teeth

Everybody wants to have white teeth and a beautiful smile. But what can we really do against a misshapen tooth? Today cosmetic dentistry provides many quick and powerful solutions for bad teeth. Here is a quick summary:

How to straighten crooked teeth

A fast way to get rid of crooked teeth is by using porcelain veneers or crowns. It's an expensive but instant solution, however, not all crooked teeth may be suitable. The other solution is using braces. It takes very long to get the teeth straightened, several months or up to over a year where you must wear the braces the whole day. Many shy away believing braces are ugly uncomfortable metal things but today's braces are almost invisible and can also be removed.

How to close the space between gapped teeth

An instant solution to close gaps are porcelain veneers or composite resin veneers. They also give you a new, white perfect tooth.

How to repair chipped or cracked teeth

A cheap way to repair cracked or chipped teeth is by so called bonding. Bonding is the process of applying an enamel like composite material to the tooth's surface. Then it gets shaped, hardened and polished. Since the material is tooth-colored it looks natural. The more expensive but more beautiful solution is achieved by using ultra-thin layers of porcelain instead of the composite material.

How to whiten stained teeth

Teeth whitening (bleaching) is the most popular treatment because it's fast and relatively cheap. Teeth which got stained because of age, food or smoking can be whitened within just one single day at your cosmetic dentist. The results are instant. There are also home tooth whitening sets which are cheaper but take much longer and often with poor results. The in-office solution at your cosmetic dentist is hassle free. Virtually every dentist offers teeth whitening service. However, whitening is not for bad teeth.

Get rid of rotten teeth

Now it's time to get rid of bad teeth. If the tooth is in really bad shape then it's often the best to remove and replace it by an implant. Pure cosmetic treatments may not work because of the damage happened to the tooth material and a possible bacterial inflammation in the root area of the tooth. A such rotten tooth can have negative influence to the overall health.

How to correct overbite/underbite

When your upper teeth overlap your lower teeth then you have overbite (underbite is just the opposite). Orthodontics comes into play here which means that there might not be an instant and easy solution. Depending on how much overbite you have, it can be corrected by aligners or braces. Now there are almost invisible braces which are fixed behind the teeth.

How to remove a gummy smile quickly

When you show too much gum when you smile you may have just short teeth or too much gum line. Sometimes the gum line is uneven. Lasers are the fix. The laser alters the gum quickly and painlessly within a day.

Missing Teeth

A missing tooth can be replaced by an implant that carries a new crown. Several missing teeth are replaced by bridges which can carry more than one tooth.

Not matter what you do, you do not have to suffer from bad teeth anymore. Advances in technology have improved results in getting bad teeth fixed quickly, with less pain and more beautiful than ever before.