We believe that dentistry is also an art form What is more beautiful than the lovely smile celebrated by artists down through the ages. At Sterling Clinic, we have created a dental practice dedicated to making your smile as beautiful as possible. Porcelain crowns, ceramic veneers, and tooth whitening can all help change your smile to one that makes you look more attractive and confident.

Porcelain Veneers:

Porcelain veneers are routinely used to cover teeth which are discolored, worn, chipped, or misaligned. Porcelain veneers, often alternatively termed dental veneers or dental porcelain laminates, are wafer-thin shells of porcelain which are bonded onto the front side of teeth in order to cosmetically improve their appearance. Typically veneers are difficult to stain, making veneers a very popular solution for many people seeking that perfect smile. Strong and very durable, veneers last from ten to fifteen years, and come in colors that will brighten dark teeth without the worry of them changing color.

Bonding:

Composite bonding can work wonders for your smile. Using materials that match the shade, translucency and the texture of your teeth.Gaps between teeth can be closed, spots and discolorations can be eliminated, and your self-confidence can be enhanced through the improved appearance of your smile. Composite bonding is excellent for small defects in the teeth -- spots, chips, or gaps between teeth. Bonding for teeth involves the use of composite resin tooth-colored filling material. This material can be used on the anterior (front) teeth or posterior (back) teeth. The procedure is sometimes referred to as bonding because an adhesive agent is used to actually bond the resin to the tooth structure.

Tooth-colored fillings and inlays:

Tooth-colored fillings and inlays replace the gold and silver of the past with natural looking materials.

In the 1970's, "white fillings" came into common use. These "tooth-colored fillings" were made of a plastic dental resin filled with microscopic filler particles and were called composites.

The composites of today have been vastly improved over the ones developed nearly forty years ago. They are strong, durable, and attractive.

All Ceramic Crowns

These restorations have no metal and are totally made of ceramic glass sometimes strengthened with a translucent material such as zirconium. They have always been a highly desirable cosmetic solution for front teeth even without the availability of modern bonding.

Incorporating bonding with all-ceramic crowns can have the strength and beauty of unblemished natural teeth. Today teeth that have too much damage to be corrected with fillings or veneers can still be made white and natural with all ceramic crowns.Some advantages of porcelain crowns are:
1.Porcelain crowns are extremely durable
2.Excellent choice for restoring severely fractured teeth, heavily worn teeth and for replacing old crowns
3.Highly resistant to stain or color change
4.No black line at the gum line