Selecting Your Smile Solution

How do I choose a dental solution?

How to choose the best dental solution at your convenience: A step-by-step guide to learning about dentistry and becoming an educated dental patient.

There's a lot more to dental solutions than simply resolving discomfort. If your dentist focuses only on symptoms, you aren’t getting the care you need. So how do you choose the smile solution that will take care of your symptoms, solve the core problem and make your smile look as dazzlingly beautiful as possible? Research! You’d do it before buying stock, real estate, or an automobile for that matter.

A smile education doesn't cost you anything. But if you don't learn about dental solutions before you select one, it could cost you a bundle. Your goal should be to arrive at the dentist as an educated patient. That way, you can make an informed decision and know what is happening every step toward rejuvenating or maintaining your healthy smile.

Step one: Begin with the 4Ss – Shade, Shape, Style, Sensation

The 4Ss are the key characteristics of smiles: shade, shape, style and sensation. Taking a few minutes now to learn about these characteristics will make your dental experience smarter, easier and more enjoyable. Not only will you know the exact smile design you're considering, but you'll also be confident that you're taking the right steps to achieve your goals. The 4Ss give you the information you need to compare and choose exactly the smile characteristics that are important to you.

Smile characteristic number one: Shade - We make sure that your smile suits your Hair color, skin tone and the particular hues of your eyes.

Smile characteristic number two: Shape - Every smile we design is based on the principles of the Golden Proportions so your smile complements your bone structure and body type.

Smile characteristic number three: Style - We believe that if your smile doesn’t feel comfortable and natural, it can’t possibly look good…

Smile characteristic number four: Sensation - The way your smile functions, feels and smells is an indication of your overall oral health.

Step two: Get smart about qualifications & experience

As a rule, every dentist must get an education from a reputable institution, and has been examined by the practitioner’s state board and graded by peers. Examining a dentist’s qualifications can help you determine which dentist is best for you and give you confidence in comparing the quality of one dentist to another. Reviewing the combined value of qualification and experience can give you the power to determine which dentist has characteristics you want. But how do you know what these qualifications mean?

Dental qualifications are earned by many hours of continuous education. But even if your dentist has credentials from a reputable dental school, he or she may not have complete and up to date training in cosmetic dentistry. Only a dentist with extensive post-doctoral training should perform the complex and technically advanced procedures required by cosmetic dental solutions. And it is important to go beyond affiliations and memberships and check a doctor’s experience. Interview patients. Carefully review before and after pictures. And always make sure you are comfortable and relaxed with the doctor you choose.

Step three in learning about dental solutions: Develop a plan to achieve both beauty and health

The healthiest smile is usually the most beautiful. But there are all kinds of smiles. It is important to take into account your personality and facial features when considering the type of change you want.  Collect pictures of the smiles you find most attractive and be sure to review your dentist’s patient portfolio. But the most important thing to consider is how you feel.

If you have headaches, frequent neck or upper body pain, if you snore or experience tingling in your hands, you may be experiencing the symptoms of TMJ. That is just another reason to choose a dentist with advanced training in aesthetics. Your treatment plan should never be based solely on aesthetics, but should take into consideration your physical well-being as well.

Dr. Mark Weiser always regards your aesthetic desires and combines them with treatments to stop your discomfort. With Dr. Mark Weiser, you will experience harmony in both the appearance and function of your smile.

It is worth repeating: the sexiest and most appealing smile, the enticing smile that catches an eye from afar and truly reflects who you really are, is a gorgeously healthy smile. Health is the wow factor!

Dr. Mark T. Weiser DDS delivers impeccably healthy handcrafted smiles, patient after patient, smile after smile.

Step four in learning about dental solutions: find a top-quality cosmetic lab

What's the difference between cosmetic and general lab work?

While most labs are for general dentistry, cosmetic lab work is becoming increasingly available. It is important that your cosmetic veneers or crowns are created of the highest quality materials, artistically crafted to look natural and light reflective and that the lab has an established reputation for excellence. Finding the right lab is easy when you have your work done by a perfectionist like Dr. Mark Weiser. He uses only the finest labs, labs like DaVinci or MAC Veneers, assuring you of consistent quality and craftsmanship. These are master ceramicists who guarantee quality and consistency.  But these labs do not work with just any doctor. Doctors like Dr. Weiser have been invited by these acclaimed labs to work in conjunction with them because of meeting the labs' high standards of quality, service, and results

Locate your Santa Barbara Cosmetic Dentist Dr. Mark T. Weiser, DDS.