More Than Meets The Eye
Dr. Pasha is recognized for outstanding cosmetic dental treatments, and his ability to deliver natural, balanced smiles that address each individual’s unique facial features and attributes. He considers teeth positioning, shape, colour, surrounding gum tissue, and lips to design smiles that accentuate your attributes.
A smile makeover is one or more successful dental treatments that positively transform your physical appearance and personal self confidence.
Some smile makeovers may focus on whitening or drastically changing the colour of teeth. Others may involve restoring and/or replacing teeth using porcelain veneers, dental implants, crowns, bridges, and dental bonding.
Dr. Pasha has nurtured his ability to create the most natural smiles possible with extensive dental training and education. His precision and artistry ensures he delivers specialized care and exceptional outcomes for each patient he serves.
Dr. Pasha collaborates with an experienced smile makeover design team including leading ceramists and specialists focused on high quality, customized solutions, and attentive patient care.
Appointment 1: Defining Your Smile Goals
The process starts with a conversation. This is an important step that sets the tone for understanding your smile goals. Remember that what one person finds attractive may be unacceptable to someone else. In order for Dr. Pasha to provide a customized solution for you he has to know what you want to achieve.
Appointment 2: Information Collection and Compilation
Once Dr. Pasha understands your priorities, the Wellington Aurora Dental team starts to collect the necessary information in what’s known as a records appointment. During this step, helpful details are gathered about the appearance, function, and structure of your smile using videos, photos, models, 3D scans, x-rays and manual measurements of your mouth and face.
Once this information is collected, Dr. Pasha designs a comprehensive, customized plan to achieve your goals.
Appointment 3: Presentation of Treatment Options
Dr. Pasha provides an in-person presentation that addresses treatment options, alternative approaches and associated costs.
The short answer is: it depends. Each case involves unique factors: multiple procedures; a range of materials; and often the work of more than one dental professional.
Orthodontics or Braces
For example, if a smile makeover was completed primarily with orthodontics or braces, the success rate will depend on how well you wear your retainer, and the extent of the natural movement of your teeth.
Whitening
The effects of whitening will last for shorter or longer periods of time based on the individual’s diet. The amount of colourful foods and drinks an individual consumes plays a major role.
Dental Restorations (e.g. Veneers, Crowns, Bridges)
If dental restorations like veneers, crowns and bridges are completed, success will depend on the condition of the underlying tooth structure, as well as the amount of force and strain placed on the teeth.
The healthier the initial structure of the tooth, the longer the restoration will last. Additionally, significant strain and forces on the teeth mean greater wear, which will affect the success rate of the smile makeover.
Dental Implants
With dental implants, long term success depends on routine maintenance, the systemic health of the patient, the health of the gum tissues, and the amount of chronic force placed upon the implant restorations.
We usually refer to a collection of dental procedures that combine to create a natural, balanced smile as a smile makeover. The smile makeover is at the heart of Dr Pasha’s cosmetic dentistry practice.
The cost of a smile makeover depends on the desired end result and the complexity of the case.
In many ways, it’s like building a house. The cost can vary greatly from case to case, depending on what’s involved. The degree of specialization involved in each procedure means that multiple practitioners can collaborate on a single case.
For example, a smile makeover for a patient with a gummy smile and misaligned teeth may involve a collaboration between a practitioner who provides braces or Invisalign and one who will perform gum contouring surgery. A different patient may only require a single practitioner to complete their smile makeover using tooth whitening and contouring procedures.
These days, cosmetic dentistry can work wonders on a smile. Even in the most challenging cases Dr. Pasha and his team can craft a smile makeover treatment plan to produce a better smile.
Tooth Colour
The colour of your teeth can be changed through teeth whitening, cosmetic bonding, porcelain veneers, or crowns. Teeth whitening is the most accessible and conservative cosmetic dentistry treatment. Other procedures may be needed if there are extreme colour changes that can’t be achieved through whitening.
There are also instances where structural concerns like a tooth’s condition and shape must be considered before a proper whitening treatment can happen. For example, patients with tetracycline staining, the result of consuming a particular antibiotic in childhood, may need more than just a simple bleaching procedure to correct the colour of their teeth. This is where Dr. Pasha’s experience and expertise comes into play.
Tooth Alignment
Dr. Pasha can adjust the alignment of your teeth with orthodontic treatments like Invisalign, dental bonding, porcelain veneers, and dental crowns. Each treatment has its pros and cons, and their involvement is evaluated on a case by case basis. As the patient, your input on your comfort level with proposed treatments, as well as cost implications, is essential.
Orthodontics are the ideal treatment for tooth alignment, as they don’t affect the structure of your teeth. However, in some cases orthodontics may have to be combined with other procedures to optimize function and aesthetics. Tooth alignment concerns often arise purely from a tooth’s positioning, but in some instances the tooth’s shape may need to change to accommodate the final treatment.
Missing Teeth
There are many options for replacing teeth. Depending on the number of missing teeth, and the location in the mouth, different variables need to be considered when making decisions on design and materials to be used.
Dental implants and implant restorations are common ways to deal with missing teeth. Implant techniques, and the technology used, have been around for years, making the dental implant a far more accepted procedure than in the past. In other instances, conservative bridges, like a Maryland bridge, may be used to replace teeth for transitional or longer term periods.
Tooth Length
Tooth length is a common point of discussion during many of Dr. Pasha’s initial cosmetic consultations, and with good reason. It’s a part of the aesthetics of cosmetic dentistry that most people can understand because it’s easily perceived.
Generally, there is a normal range for tooth size that includes length and width. Tooth proportions vary from person to person, however, there are general limits inside which a tooth is considered aesthetically pleasing.
Multiple factors combine to contribute to perceived tooth length, including gum tissue, tooth size, lip size and mobility, and jaw structure. Each of these factors must be considered before deciding on the best way to correct the length of your teeth.
The Smile Line
The smile line is the lower border of the teeth that shows up when you smile. In general, this line is supposed to follow the shape of the lower lip in a way that is pleasing and natural, but this doesn’t always happen. Irregular smile lines tend to create tension in a person’s smile.
Dr. Pasha’s job is to optimize an irregular smile line by correcting tooth position, length and width to create a more harmonious presentation. As mentioned earlier, as a patient, this type of thing is easy to perceive and understand, even if you don’t know the technical details.
Tooth Proportion
Tooth proportion is one of the most crucial parts of designing a smile. As mentioned earlier, the length and width of your teeth should ideally fall within an acceptable range. But remember: it’s all about their proportion in relation to everything else.
Tooth proportions rely on various factors: the shape of your face, the shape of the jaw, the size, shape and movement of your lips, and your bite (the way your teeth come together to function). Dr Pasha and his team carefully piece together these elements like a puzzle before coming up with the ideal solution for you and your smile’s unique proportions.
