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Imagine your mouth as a theatre. The lips
represent the curtains, the inside of the mouth the
stage, and the teeth are the actors. For an aesthetically
pleasing performance, all 3 areas need to work together.
A gorgeous stage setting with poor acting and a shabby
looking curtain will detract from the beauty of the
experience. The same is true of your smile. The mouth,
lips and teeth all have to work together to produce
a pleasant smile. If any of the three are out of sync,
the smile suffers. Today, a non-surgical smile lift
can be performed to give patients a younger appearance
by decreasing the appearance of wrinkles, making the
lips look fuller, and perfecting the smile to make our
guests look 10 years younger.
Our society today has become focused on full, beautiful
lips and wrinkle free skin. The fashion models and actresses
that we see today all seem to have porcelain smooth
skin and full lips. Many treatments have been developed
in plastic surgery, dermatology and permanent makeup
to smooth the skin and enhance the size and shape of
a persons lips. Unfortunately, procedures like these
can often take as long as 6-8 weeks, with multiple visits
to the surgeon. The non-surgical smile lift can often
be accomplished in just 1-2 visits. It is non-invasive;
no cutting of the skin is necessary. Patients are back
to their normal routine the very next day; there is
zero recovery time. How can this be accomplished?
Building a beautiful house starts with a strong foundation.
We have known for many years that the way the teeth
are aligned in the mouth affects the appearance of the
lower one third of the face, including the cheeks and
lips. The loss of teeth can result in a change in the
appearance of the lips or cheeks. This can include sinking
of the lips, a hollow look in the cheeks, or wrinkling
of the skin.
With the use of proper cosmetic dental procedures,
these problems can be corrected. Using porcelain
veneers to thicken the upper portion of a tooth
can decrease laugh lines. Your cosmetic dentist can
build out the upper third of the veneer which results
in the facial area above the tooth being pushed out,
resulting in a smoothing of the upper lip wrinkles.
This in turn, gives the upper lip a fuller, more pouty
look. By elongating the veneers, the mouth appears fuller,
and longer teeth help to push out the lower lip, reducing
wrinkles around it. When we widen the width of the back
teeth, we are able to broaden the smile, which gives
our guests a fuller, younger looking smile. Finally,
by placing lighter, natural looking veneers over yellow,
stained teeth, we brighten the face and create a more
youthful appearance.
If you are considering some form of aesthetic surgery
to make your lips fuller or get rid of wrinkles in the
lower third of your face, speak to your cosmetic dentist
first. It is very possible that enhancing your smile
can give you the smoother face and full, sexy lips that
you desire.
To learn more go to Dr. Patric Cohen's specialist
page, or directly to his website at www.90210smiles.com
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