Get a Good-Looking Smile With Cosmetic Dentistry in Winnipeg, MB

Cosmetic dentistry is one of the things that's come a long way. It used to be very difficult in order to make things look like they belong and in harmony. With today's techniques and today's materials, we can make smiles that virtually disappear. We can make teeth longer, we can make them lighter, we can make them brighter, we can make them function better, and it all comes from a good treatment plan and making sure that we understand the patient's needs, and from that standpoint, it's revolutionary. When people get their smiles changed, it changes how they look, it changes how they feel, it changes within you.

The way that we do cosmetic dentistry at Lakewood Dental is based on the patient's needs. So what I think looks good might not be what a patient thinks looks good. Some patients don't like the spacing between their teeth. Some patients don't like the coloring of their teeth. Some patients don't like the shape of their teeth. Some patients don't like that they have missing teeth. So we take a series of photos and a series of X-rays and we work with good labs, and we give them mock-ups to figure ... show them what we're going to do and how it's potentially going to look.

Once the case has been returned, then what we'll do is we'll present the patient the case. We can do a soft try-in to see they're happy with it. If it's not, we can tweak the case, send it back to the lab and make sure that everybody's happy.
Sometimes a patient just needs, just wants some whitening. So we work with the patient to go over the options for dental whitening and teeth whitening, and that can solve their problem as well. But with the push for everybody saying “cosmetic dentistry,” there's a big difference between restorative and cosmetic dentistry. A lot of what we do is cosmetic, but the restorative aspect of it restores function and form. The cosmetic dentistry just solves the aesthetic problems.
So we'll try and solve the aesthetic problems as the patient wants, not as we want.

Well, when someone comes in requesting a change in their smile or a cosmetic change, the first thing I do is we sit down and we do a consultation and an aesthetic evaluation, and what that means is we look at their current smile, we chat about what the patient wants to achieve. I'll often flip through photos, or I'll have the patient bring in photos of smiles that they think are attractive, and we talk about whether that will work for them or whether it's possible to achieve that level of change.

We go through a whole host of things, but the biggest part of that whole event is really communicating with people and communicating with the person to kind of get a good idea of what it is that they want with the change, what they want and what we can do for them with all the amazing technology that we have at our fingertips.