Cosmetic dental check-up: what you should evaluate before bleaching your smile

Dental aesthetics has become ubiquitous. White teeth are talked about as if the smile was just a matter of tonality. However, reducing a smile to color is ignoring what really sustains it: gum health, enamel integrity, masticatory function and facial balance. It is precisely here that the dental aesthetic check-up takes on clinical relevance.

Before bleaching the smile or an aesthetic intervention, it is essential to understand if there is a stable biological basis for supporting this decision. Even because a smile is not a filter. It is a living, functional and integrated structure.

The beauty check is not a business consultation or a quick budget. It is a moment of structured diagnosis that allows us to evaluate the smile as a whole and define, with criteria, what is necessary, what is excessive and what should be avoided.

More than knowing the price of a beauty check, it is important to look at what you can really gain from it, and it’s a lot, as you will see.

Aesthetics always starts with health

One of the most frequent mistakes is to want to improve color and ignore oral health. Whitening of teeth with gingival inflammation, active cavities or significant biofilm accumulation compromises the outcome and may aggravate existing problems.

The correct clinical sequence is simple and should not be reversed:

Diagnose
Stabilize
Intervene aesthetically

In many cases, professional oral hygiene is the real starting point.

Now, let’s see, the removal of plaque and tartar allows you to reveal the real color of the teeth and understand if there is, in fact, indication for bleaching. Modern protocols such as GBT are now an effective and minimally invasive approach to biofilm control.

Without biofilm control, there is no aesthetic stability, as we talked about in the article on shame of smiling.

What is really important for us to evaluate in a dental aesthetic check-up

Color

When a patient seeks to improve their smile, the question is not just “want whiter teeth?” The evaluation of A Clínica is more comprehensive and based on objective clinical criteria.

Color is just one of the elements. It is necessary to distinguish external pigmentation caused by coffee, wine or tobacco from internal changes associated with aging or devitalizations, other of the many topics we have covered in the blog d’A Clínica. The quality of the enamel, its thickness and possible brittleness are also assessed.

The texture of enamel

The texture of the enamel is another determining factor.

Two teeth can have similar tonality and still reflect light completely differently due to microfractures, wear or erosion.

Dental check-ups allow to identify signs of bruxism, structural loss or chemical aggressions that require specific approach.

The proportion and dental shape

The proportion and tooth shape are also analyzed.

Often, the perception of misalignment results not from position but from wear or asymmetry between elements.

In these cases, small conservative corrections can restore harmony without resorting to artificial solutions.

Gum

At this point we will make a note because the gum deserves particular attention.

It represents a significant part of the aesthetics of the smile and decisively influences its perception.

Inflamed, retracted or irregularly contoured gums alter any aesthetic outcome. If there is bleeding (which is never normal), it is essential to understand the cause.
In specific situations, correction of the gum contour may be indicated through procedures such as gingivectomy, as we have seen.

Without periodontal health, any aesthetic improvement is unstable.

Function

Finally, we evaluate the function. Occlusal contacts, signs of tightening, excessive wear and overload must be identified.

An aesthetically enhanced but functionally compromised smile tends to fail in the medium term.

Preparing the smile for spring requires criteria

As spring and social events approach, the demand for quick and miraculous improvements increases.

However, preparing for a smile at any time should not be an impulse but an informed decision.

We risk saying that most people don’t need to transform their smile. You need to stabilize it, care for it and plan properly.

Omitting the evaluation phase, through a dental aesthetic check-up, it is impossible to reach this conclusion, and may even get upset and spoil!

What compromises aesthetic results

No aesthetic treatment resists inadequate habits and lack of maintenance. Uncontrolled plaque, frequent consumption of sugar, tobacco, absence of interdental hygiene and lack of professional monitoring undermine any improvement.

In fact, maintenance-free aesthetics are only temporary.

Improving the smile is to decide responsibly

The dental aesthetic check-up is the moment that separates impulsive decisions from dental medicine based on diagnosis.

Before tampering with color, it is essential to assess gum health, enamel integrity, tooth ratio, and functional stability. Only in this way can a natural, predictable and lasting outcome be guaranteed.

Remember the best smile is not the whitest.
It is the healthiest, most balanced and sustainable. N’A Clínica returns smiles and we work on dental aesthetics.

Schedule or request more information about the price of dental check-up at the clinic. Only after a careful and thorough evaluation of the smile, do we propose a personalized plan fully adapted to your needs for the much-desired harmonization of the smile.

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