Stop Hiding Smile
Your smile is a very undervalued asset. We are all as unique as our fingerprints, making your smile unique to you and only you. Research has proven that smiling can and will make you happy. Smiling releases endorphins, which helps your mood and your positivity. The simple act of smiling becomes foundational to your personality. It has a direct impact on your level of self-esteem and your self-confidence. Now these flow into your personal life, your social encounters, and your business practices. By hiding your smile, you are cheating yourself from good and positive outcomes. Smiling is powerful. It also reduces stress. Children average smiling 400 times a day!
This can quickly and easily be rectified with a simple dental examination. Any of the common contributing issues listed below can be addressed by your dentist.
Contributing Factors to You Hiding Your Smile
Here are just a few possible problems that might influence your decision to share your smile:
- A Chipped or Broken Tooth
- Decayed or Damaged Teeth
- Discolored, Stained or Dull teeth
- Worn Down Teeth
- A Gummy or uneven Smile
- Crowded or Crooked Teeth
- Unwanted Gaps or Spacing
Common Treatments for Improving Your Smile
These are some of the common dental procedures that could immediately reverse you from hiding your smile to enjoying your smile and grabbing some happiness.
- Teeth Whitening- Will reverse the staining or discoloring from your diet choices. You may enjoy coffee or blueberries in the morning, or a cola at lunch, or a glass of red wine at night. These are just a few favorites that will stain your teeth. Your dentist can correct that very quickly with a professional teeth whitening procedure.
- Chipped, Cracked or Broken Tooth- Veneers or overlays are extremely common. A thin wafer shell or a properly colored resin can be both applied to make that tooth look normal again. The application of a dental crown is another common treatment procedure.
- A Gummy Smile- This is when your teeth and gums are out of proportion. You smile and see too much gum.
- Often a genetic issue, your dentist can easily trim back the gums, either with a scalpel or a laser, and expose more of the tooth to balance out the ratio.
- Crowded teeth, Crooked teeth, Gaps, Spacing- Orthodontics is the dental branch that focuses on the moving of your teeth. Any of these common problems have been and are easy to correct. Maybe your wisdom teeth erupted and crowded your teeth. They can be extracted. Gaps or unwanted spacing can be corrected with veneers or overlays. Orthodontic braces, metal or ceramic, or the new clear plastic digitally developed Invisalign program can be applied to correct crooked teeth and improve spacing.
Make an Appointment Today
Go ahead, look in the mirror and smile. Go back and look at pictures, or selfies, and see if you have begun hiding your smile. Call your family dentist and schedule an evaluation. The problem may not be immediately evident to you, but your dentist will find it, correct it, and allow you to enjoy that asset of yours again.