Smile Design at Ironwood Dental Care

Teeth whitening is one of the fastest and most popular cosmetic dental procedures – it takes around an hour in the dental chair. To whiten your teeth, we protect your lips and gums and carefully apply a light-activated whitening gel to your teeth. Your teeth will typically be around 3 shades lighter after one treatment and sensitivity doesn’t last as long as it can do with home-whitening kits. 

If you need a touch-up, this can be done as either another in-office whitening appointment or with a customized touch-up kit made just for you.

If you don’t like your ‘gummy’ smile or uneven gum tissue, we can do laser gum contouring to help make your smile appear wider and more youthful. To do this, we use a soft-tissue diode laser to remove some of the extra gum tissue around your tooth, revealing more of your natural tooth underneath. 

Healing begins immediately in the gums after gum contouring with a laser, so the healing process is quick and painless.

When you have veneers, being able to preserve your natural tooth structure provides the most benefit to you. This is because your natural tooth is stronger than any dental material that may be placed in your mouth. 

That’s why Durathins no-tooth-removal veneers are a great option – no tooth enamel is removed. The ‘contact-lens’ thin porcelain is applied directly on top of your natural teeth and they are very strong once adhered. They can also be removed at any time in the future, and your natural smile would then be still intact underneath!