WHAT makes a face look young? A youthful face is super plumped with collagen giving the skin that smooth hydrated appearance.
However its not just the quality of the skin that matters, its what's underneath the skin, the supporting scaffolding that counts too.
One of the most common parts of your facial skeleton to undergo change in your life time are your jaw bones. If you lose many of your back teeth your jaw bone silently shrinks away until an aged, 'squashed' type look occurs.
The cheeks collapse inwards, the lips compress together and the chin becomes more prominent.
What's actually happened is that the distance from the bottom of the nose to the bottom of the chin has been reduced, knocking off your facial balance.
Teeth don't necessarily need to be completely missing to give an aged look. Teeth that have been worn down by grinding or severely dissolved away due to acid erosion cannot support the cheeks or lips properly either.
Some people don't notice these changes as they happen gradually while for others their self confidence can take a battering.
The Dental Face Lift is a non surgical procedure that focuses on replacing entire teeth or the missing enamel that has been lost over the years.
By rebuilding the teeth to their original dimensions, the lower face regains that youthful vertical height.
The cheeks and lips are then adequately braced and the chin returns to its balanced position that it was in when the patient was in their 20s.
Dental facelifts can take 10 years off your appearance without the need for a conventional surgical facelift.
Moreover the facial muscles, nerves and jaw joints function better when teeth are rebuilt into a more ideal shape and bite.
There are various ways to do a dental facelift and so determining the cause of the problem is the first step. Then an individual treatment plan is designed to replace missing teeth or rebuild existing teeth.
Generally speaking, it's a combination of treatments that can include white filling composite bonding, veneers, crowns, bridges or implants to rebuild the teeth.
When necessary, new dentures can be made that will provide better support and upright 'down turned' lips.
Dental facelifts can subtly give a fresh faced look and younger looking teeth giving you something to really smile about.
