Do you stay tight-lipped when you smile? Are you conscious that even if you do open your mouth, your smile is dark, tight, and unflattering?
Thankfully, this can be corrected.
With our treatment for a narrow smile, we can transform the look and feel of your smile. Contact the team today to find out more.
When we think of a picture-perfect smile, it’s usually wide and bright – and it’s these attributes that make it warm and inviting.
A narrow smile is usually characterised as a smile that shows only your front 4 to 6 teeth.
A narrow smile is typically genetic – caused by the natural shape of your mouth and alignment of your teeth.
With limited light entering the mouth, unflattering dark patches can form at the corners of the mouth and making teeth appear dull.
Large gaps or missing teeth, are also problematic. These increase the appearance of dark areas which only serves to aggravate the problem.
The good news is, if you do suffer from a narrow smile, there are things you can do to improve it – and it doesn’t have to mean wearing braces.
One of the top treatment choices is actually veneers.
Here at The Smile Clinic, we regularly use veneers to successfully widen and enhance smiles, giving a much fuller and wider appearance.
It works by using veneers to subtly change the shape of your smile by extending teeth and closing gaps to create the appearance of a broader, fuller smile.
Take a look at our before and after gallery to see just how impressive results can be.
Want to find out more about how you widen your smile without braces and achieve a beautiful wide-open smile with veneers? Then have a chat with the team.
You can get in touch by calling us on 020 7971 1909 or by filling in our contact form. One of our helpful staff members will be more than happy to help and answer any questions you may have.
And don’t forget, if you’d like to see the transformation we can make to your narrow smile, we offer a free simulation service – just ask a member of the team to find out more.
Due to missing teeth or a narrow jawbone, a smile can often appear narrow naturally. This can cause the widest part of your smile to darken. This is referred to as a “narrow buccal corridor”.
A narrow smile can also be inherited, which means you may have been born with narrow dental arches. However, a narrow smile is most likely caused through habitual activities during development, which includes bottle feeding, thumb-sucking, inadequate tongue position or even improper swallowing. All these components can prevent arch development, which ultimately creates a narrow and darker-looking smile.
Your narrow smile can be corrected easily with various treatments, that will enable your teeth to be distributed evenly within the mouth – creating a wider, friendlier looking smile. One treatment for widening a narrow smile includes having a brace fitted, to gently widen the teeth. This can be enhanced further using whitening after the braces are removed.
However, the most effective and recommended treatment for improving a narrow smile is by using porcelain veneers – which are guaranteed to brighten and whiten your smile. Here at Harley Street Smile Clinic, our professional dentists can help you achieve a wider smile in accordance with your personal preferences on shape, size and colour.
Veneers are made up of natural-looking porcelain, which makes them the perfect application for improving a narrow smile.
At Harley Street Smile Clinic, your dentist may re-shape and remove a necessary amount of enamel from your teeth in preparation for your veneers. In some cases, they may decide that you are eligible for non-prep veneers, which means no tooth contouring or removal needs to take place. Once the preparation method is decided, your dentist will then take impressions from your teeth and construct a mould to accommodate a wider smile.
Your dentist will then schedule your veneer fitting appointment, which will involve checking you are happy with the final result, and then implementing the veneers with cement when you are fully satisfied. Once fitted, you will find that your smile shows more than six teeth, giving you an overall brighter, wider and whiter smile.
If you are unhappy with your narrow smile, then our highly-skilled dentists can provide you with a wider and brighter smile using our premium porcelain veneers. Book your free E-consultation today or for further information on our cosmetic dentistry services, you can call us on 020 7971 1909 to discuss your smile options. Your gleaming smile will be easier to show off in no time!
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