Many options are now available to improve your smile. Using modern high strength ceramics and advanced bonding techniques you can now have a beautiful smile.

Veneers can provide a beautiful smile and achieve dramatic or subtle improvements in the appearance of your smile. They are thin but hard, lifelike porcelain (glassy) layers permanently bonded to the front of the teeth.

Porcelain Veneers:

Ideal for strengthening teeth

Regular fillings do not usually strengthen teeth. They simply replace decayed parts of the teeth. Teeth weakened by cavities can be strengthened and their appearance enhanced by crowns. These are a more advanced and complex restoration constructed on precision, custom models in a laboratory.

Crowns may also realign crooked teeth, close spaces, improve discoloured and chipped teeth.

These are high strength restorations that cover the entire outside of the tooth with a lifelike ceramic or, when greater strength is required, a precious metal alloy may be included inside the crown.

Porcelain Crowns:

Today we only use tooth coloured fillings at Vincentia Dental.

Many people have amalgam fillings that have progressively blackened over time and caused staining of the teeth. Although amalgam is a functional material it does have several disadvantages. The most obvious problem is its unsightly appearance.

Many people now choose to have their fillings replaced to achieve a natural appearance.

Old amalgam fillings are not bonded to the tooth. Amalgam expands and contracts 3 times as much as tooth. It works very well for a long time but when it fails you either have new decay under your filling or the tooth breaks.

Modern cosmetic restorations are bonded to the tooth surface so the joins are sealed.

Most cosmetic fillings are made from composite resin that can be placed in a single visit and has an excellent natural appearance.

For the greater strength needed for larger fillings or weakened teeth an ideal material is dental ceramic. This type of restoration can increase the strength of the tooth while providing a natural, tooth coloured appearance that is almost indistinguishable from your natural teeth.

This type of restoration requires two visits for completion. The restoration is made in a laboratory on a precise model of the tooth using advanced ceramic technology.

While the permanent restoration is being produced we place a lifelike temporary restoration so that no one will notice the difference.