A small hand mirror on a timber counter beside a dish of porcelain samples

Cosmetic

What Is Cosmetic Dentistry

Name: Eco Dental
Address: 136 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, NSW, 2037, AU
Telephone: (02) 9566 4400

A category rather than a treatment: anything done primarily to change how a smile looks. Our clinical rule is that appearance work must never weaken the tooth underneath.

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Whiten, align, reshape, porcelain: 4 steps
Trialled before committing: Mock-up
In writing, every option: Quoted

The order we work in
Clean and whiten first — colour is what most people actually notice.
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Then align, because moving your own teeth beats grinding them down to fake the position. Then reshape with composite. Porcelain only when the first three cannot get there.
What we will talk you out of
Veneers on healthy, well-positioned teeth that only need whitening.
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Eight units when four would do. And anything that requires removing sound enamel for an effect that a fortnight of aligners would achieve.
Where to go next
The full range — Invisalign, whitening, veneers, componeers, porcelain restorations and facial treatments — sits under Cosmetic Dentistry, with a page for each.

Our work

Cosmetic work that removed no tooth

A completed case at the practice. It is here because it is the least dramatic thing on this page and the most representative: the teeth were sound the whole way through, and the treatment moved them.