New Orleans, LA Cosmetic Dentistry | Riverbend Dental Center

For residents of New Orleans, dental implants are available to patients who want a permanent solution to gaining a beautiful smile. If you have lost or missing teeth, the experts at Riverbend Dental Center can fashion you with implants that appear as natural as your actual teeth. This option is a much more permanent alternative to dentures, and when you come in to our office for your appointment, we will revue all of your options with you to help you make the best decision to restore your beautiful smile.

The implant itself is actually a post that is planted into your jaw surgically. The artificial but natural-looking tooth is then placed into the post. In our office, a specialist completes the surgery, and the restorative phase is finished by the professionals in our office. These implants are used to replace a single tooth, or they can also be used as anchors to replace multiple teeth.

In our office, we are constantly staying on top of the most current technologies and the most up to date procedures. We do so to provide the best possible treatment and education for our patients.

If you live in New Orleans, dental implants may be the option that you have been looking for to restore your smile. Call us today to schedule your first appointment.

A smile can be the most eye-catching feature of your face. Even a subtle change can make a big difference in the way you look and feel. New techniques like whitening, bonding, enamel shaping, veneers, and white fillings allow us to create a beautiful smile with, at times, only minimal changes to existing teeth.

Teeth Whitening is a very popular procedure in cosmetic dentistry. It is a relatively easy and effective technique for obtaining a dazzling, whiter smile, at home, in a matter of days.

Bonding is a procedure where tooth-colored composite resin material is placed to "fill in the blanks." One of the most frequent uses of the bonding technique is to fill in a gap between front teeth.

Enamel Shaping (Contouring) is the process of shaping natural teeth to improve their appearance. Shaping can be used to correct minor cases of crowded or overlapping teeth, smooth rough edges, or make small adjustments to the shape of a tooth.

Veneers are laboratory fabricated, porcelain facings that are bonded to the front surfaces of teeth to whiten teeth, close spaces, straighten teeth, or repair chipped or worn teeth. The veneers are only about 1 mm thick (the thickness of a fingernail). That same thickness is "shaved" off the natural tooth surface so when the veneer is bonded to the tooth, the tooth doesn't feel or look "thicker".

Caps (Crowns) are rarely used for cosmetic correction any more, since the advent of veneers, but in some cases a crown may be necessary for a particular tooth. A tooth with a bad fracture or a large filling that is breaking down, or has decay around it, may be a candidate for a crown instead of a veneer. This patient has veneers on top, but one of the front teeth had a large filling and had to be crowned.

White fillings replace silver or gold fillings with a more natural looking tooth-colored material. Since teeth are translucent, dark fillings cause the whole tooth to appear darker when viewed from the side. Replacing older dark fillings with white fillings will keep your smile glowing!