I want my front teeth to look better, but I don’t want to wear braces. What are my options?
There are actually several options to consider. The simplest is recontouring your front teeth followed by whitening. Gaps, rotated, crooked, and misaligned teeth can be improved by simple one-appointment bonding of the problem teeth with tooth-colored resin cured by laser light. A more natural, longer lasting look can be accomplished by covering your misshaped, spaced, or rotated teeth with porcelain veneers. They are thin facings of porcelain bonded to the teeth with laser light in a two-appointment procedure. For more extensive cases, all-porcelain crowns can be bonded to your teeth to change the color, correct the alignment and give a natural smile. It takes from one to three dental appointments for any of these restorative procedures versus two or more years for braces.
