Cosmetic Dentist – Saint Peters, MO
Beautify Your Grin with the Latest Cosmetic Dental Treatments
It’s no secret that brighter smiles look great in pictures, but recent employment studies show that the appearance of smiles may be a factor in hiring and promotion practices. A UC Berkley study revealed that people with attractive smiles often smiled more, lived longer, and were happier. At Klassik Smiles, we want our patients to have smiles they’re proud to share. Our team is happy to work one on one with patients to create their dream smiles, offering several cosmetic dentistry services to conceal or correct any number of dental flaws. Contact our team today to schedule your consultation for cosmetic dentistry in Saint Peters.
Why Choose Klassik Smiles for Cosmetic Dentistry?
- Customized Take-Home Teeth Whitening Kits
- See Results Before Treatment with Virtual Smile Design
- Dentist with 25+ Years of Experience
Veneers
One of the most popular cosmetic dentistry services, dental veneers allow patients to essentially hit the reset button, concealing years of dental wear, cracks, and chips. Veneers are thin sheaths of dental-grade porcelain that are cemented into position over the fronts of teeth to hide any number of smile irregularities. The process typically takes two visits.
During the first appointment, a small amount of surface enamel is removed from teeth in order to allow the veneers to fit seamlessly into the natural smile line. Impressions are captured and sent to a dental lab where custom veneers are crafted. Until the personalized ones are completed, temporaries are placed to protect the prepared teeth. Once the final veneers are completed, patients return to exchange their temporaries for their permanent restorations.
Metal-Free Dental Restorations
Traditional materials used for dental restorations include gold, silver, and porcelain-fused-to-metal. These restorations had two drawbacks. They didn’t restore the appearance of smiles, and patients who have sensitivities to metal are unable to restore teeth with these materials. Some dental practices recommend all-ceramic dental restorations, but our team utilizes an even more cosmetically and restoratively superior material – zirconia. Zirconia dental restorations are easily shaded to blend into patients’ smiles, and the strong material provides durable, long-lasting results.
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Direct Bonding
In some cases, we can conceal or correct minor smile flaws in a single visit with direct bonding. With the same composite resin material used in tooth-colored fillings, Dr. Makwana fills in cracks, reshapes chipped teeth, and conceals staining and discoloration. The process is simple. The dentist shades the composite resin to blend seamlessly into the smile and applies it to teeth, restoring the shape and stability of natural tooth enamel as well as improving the appearance of previously damaged or flawed teeth.
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At-Home Teeth Whitening Kits
Store-bought teeth whitening pastes, rinses, strips, and gels promise dramatic results, but in most cases, they are unable to deliver. Teeth whitening from our Saint Peters dental practice combines professional-grade whitening gel and custom-crafted application trays for more predictable results. We use the Opalescence whitening system. We can customize treatment plans to meet each patient’s unique needs, adjusting the dosage, wear times, and length of treatment to achieve the desired results.
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Invisalign
Invisalign clear aligners are a great way to straighten teeth and address misaligned bites. No matter if your teeth are gapped, crowded, or crooked, or you have an overbite, underbite, crossbite, or open bite, these customized trays are designed to create a healthier, more perfectly aligned smile. Created with optimal precision, you can expect to see dramatic and life-changing results much quicker than if you were to wear traditional metal braces. Dr. Makwana and our team will be here to walk you through each step to ensure you achieve your ultimate smile goals with Invisalign.
Smile Makeover
Are there multiple things you’d like to change about your smile? One or two individual cosmetic dental services may not be enough to help you achieve the results you’re looking for. In cases like these, we recommend a smile makeover! This 100% personalized service offers a streamlined dental treatment plan aimed to help you gain a flawless smile most easily and efficiently.
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Understanding the Cost of Cosmetic Dentistry
Cosmetic dental procedures can boost your confidence to enhance your daily quality of life, but most insurance policies don’t cover them because they’re intended to improve your appearance more than your dental health. As a result, many patients have questions about what they can expect to pay for their desired upgrades.
Our team is happy to provide an estimate after your consultation when we know more about your current dental condition and goals. Then, we’re happy to provide treatment plans and walk you through the pricing information for your approval before proceeding. Continue reading to learn more about how the rate is determined, and feel free to contact us for additional questions.
Which Cosmetic Dental Service is Right for Me?
Many people are eager to brighten, straighten, or perfect their smiles, and our Klassik Smiles team in St. Peters is happy to help! We offer several different cosmetic services at varying price points so you can find options within your budget.
Some popular procedures and general cost information is outlined in more detail below:
- These ceramic shells are customized to be the right shade, shape, and size, then are bonded to the fronts of your teeth to hide aesthetic concerns, often ranging from $800 to $2,500 per tooth.
- Metal-Free Dental Restorations. If you have a worn-down or outdated metal amalgam filling or crown, we can replace it with bio-compatible tooth-colored material, usually for several hundred dollars.
- Direct Bonding. For about $100 to $600+ per tooth, we can apply color-matched composite resin directly to your enamel to reshape your teeth or mend stains, chips, and cracks.
- At-Home Teeth Whitening Kits. We can send you home with ultra-concentrated whiteners designed to prevent sensitivity and custom-fitted trays for optimal whitening application for a few hundred dollars.
- This clear alternative to braces relies on transparent trays that fit snugly over your teeth to gently shift them to their ideal places, with prices frequently ranging between $2,000 to $10,000.
- Smile Makeover. We can provide as many cosmetic or restorative treatments as required to completely remake your grin, so the rate varies based on your unique circumstances.
Is Cosmetic Dentistry Worth the Investment?
It’s natural to wonder whether improving your appearance is worth the personal investment of both time and resources, but there are additional benefits to cosmetic dentistry you might not have known. One of the first things others notice about you is the quality of your grin, and aesthetic flaws can prevent you from making a positive impression.
Thankfully, cosmetic dental procedures can boost your confidence, which contributes to a better quality of life. When you look and feel like your best self, you enjoy better professional achievements, deeper relationships, and a busier social calendar.
How to Make Cosmetic Dentistry Affordable
Dr. Makwana and the rest of our team believe that everyone deserves to have a beautiful, healthy smile they can feel proud of, and we don’t want your finances to hold you back. If you’re worried about affording your elective treatments, you might benefit from one of the following options:
- Flexible Financing. We gladly offer low and no-interest payment plans through a third-party financer, CareCredit. If your application is approved, this program allows you to break up your total invoice into more manageable installments over a designated period.
- Special Offers. Check our website frequently so you don’t miss out on time-sensitive promotions, like our current $150 teeth whitening special, $500 coupon off Invisalign, and a free smile makeover consultation!
Cosmetic Dentistry FAQs
As you can see, cosmetic dentistry involves many different treatments, each with distinct uses. While this means that you can deal with quite a few different issues, it can also make it a little bit difficult to understand fully what cosmetic dentistry has to offer.
If you’re left with questions, you’re far from the only one. We’ve heard them all over the years, so if you want to learn more, here are answers to some of the most common ones that we get.
Is Cosmetic Dentistry Safe?
Cosmetic dentistry is primarily concerned with improving how your teeth look, which means that the changes that they make rarely penetrate any deeper than the surface of the tooth. None of them are very invasive, meaning that there are few risks inherently involved in the procedures.
The primary dangers come from oral health problems that are exacerbated by the treatments. For that reason, we’ll perform a thorough oral health exam to determine whether you’re a good candidate for these treatments. This caution means you can rest assured that every cosmetic procedure you get from us will be completely safe.
How Do I Know If I Need Cosmetic Dentistry?
The safety of these procedures means that anyone who isn’t completely comfortable with how their smile looks could benefit from cosmetic dentistry. If your teeth are stained, for example, you may benefit from professional teeth whitening. Direct bonding can repair any small chips or cracks in your teeth.
Cosmetic dentistry can even make you look younger! By brightening your teeth and erasing damage from over the years, you can take decades off of your smile.
Does Cosmetic Dentistry Hurt?
As dentists, we know that fear of discomfort can put a lot of patients off of getting dental care, and cosmetic dentistry is no exception. Thankfully, cosmetic dentistry is completely painless.
Most of the treatments inherently don’t involve any pain, but in the case of treatments like veneers where removing enamel is necessary, we’ll completely numb your mouth before we begin. As a result, you can count on being completely comfortable for the duration of the procedure.
Afterward, you might be a little bit tender. This should be mild and will fade in a few days. Until then, you should have no problem getting by with over-the-counter pain relievers.
What Causes the Discoloration of a Tooth?
If you’ve gotten teeth whitening, direct bonding, or veneers, you may want to keep your smile as white as possible. Here are a few things that could potentially start to discolor your smile over time.
- Some kinds of foods and beverages can potentially discolor the teeth. Coffee, red wine, dark berries, and chocolate are some examples.
- Tobacco use can leave stains behind on your enamel, as can any other kind of nicotine.
- As you age, your enamel will gradually thin and expose the darker layers of the tooth underneath.
- Injury may cut off blood flow to the tooth, causing it to gray.
