A smile makeover — what a Hollywood sounding term!

To me, though, a smile makeover is so important and anything but a shallow term. I know that a person's self-image often improves when they stop being ashamed of their teeth. Their confidence improves. Their life changes.

What holds a lot of people back is fear and anxiety.

But no worries — I can give you that Richmond smile makeover even if you haven’t been to the dentist in years. And there is nothing sissy or degrading about having a fear of the dental office. Many of our fears just develop without our conscious effort. You can’t will yourself not to be scared, right?

But one thing I have noticed. I get very successful executives and sports stars and entertainment people here and many of them are very afraid of the dentist. I get them going on a smile makeover and in a few visits they have this dazzling new smile and guess what? They are no longer afraid of the dentist. Not as much, anyway.

After those visits they don’t need sedation for routine cleanings or simple dental work. But I am always there to prescribe a sedative for use at home prior to the work. Or pill dentistry as we sometimes call it, pills to help you so you relax in the chair while my team and I do the work.

What I often find when people come to see me and want a lot of work done is that they are losing bone in their jaw. I think this is normal with aging but we have to do our best to stop it. Losing bone is really part of gum disease and fortunately there are terrific gum disease treatments that can stop you from losing bone.

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