The Lodge offers two different methods of teeth whitening both of which are supervised by experienced cosmetic dentists.

Home whitening is the least expensive route of whitening your teeth. Our dentists will carefully take impressions of your teeth and make custom whitening trays that fit your teeth perfectly. These are used in combination with the whitening gel at home. A small amount of gel is squeezed into the trays and then worn for 4 hours per day or even overnight. Fantastic results can be achieved in a week!

£350

For those looking for a much whiter smile in a very short period of time, the Britesmile whitening system is one of the fastest whitening systems available in the world. Here, a higher concentration of whitening gel is applied to the teeth and activated with a high intensity blue light. At the end of the appointment there is a noticeable change in the colour of the teeth. This is followed by a more rapid form of the home treatment to stabilize the colour change and enhance the final result.

£695 included home whitening kit

Dental veneers have long been used to create the ultimate smile makeover, with this treatment it is possible to transform crooked, stained, damaged and badly worn teeth into a brand new straight white smile as seen on many of the Hollywood greats.

Veneers are wafer thin laminates or shells of tooth coloured material (which can be either porcelain, ceramic or composite bonding material) that are "cemented" to the front surface of teeth to improve their cosmetic appearance. Dental veneers are for your teeth what false finger nails are for your hands. In a similar manner to how false finger nails are placed or glued to your existing fingernails, veneers are bonded to the front of your existing teeth.

What Treatments or problems are veneers used for?

There are a wide variety of reasons why patients opt for treatment with dental veneers:

Stained Teeth

Badly stained teeth that cannot be improved by teeth whitening or prophyflex treatments can greatly be improved by dental veneers, which function to cover and "hide" any existing stains on your natural teeth.

Damaged Teeth

Teeth that have either become badly worn with excessive grinding, by carbonated drinks, or have been chipped or broken in an accident can benefit from veneers. A small chip on a tooth can quickly be repaired with composite bonding or "composite veneers" which are one and the same thing. A single damaged tooth can easily be repaired with a single porcelain veneer that has the same characteristics and colour to match your surrounding teeth so that it looks natural.

Gaps

Spaces or gaps between your teeth can be easily closed using dental veneers giving you a more uniform looking smile.

Crooked Teeth

For teeth that are not severely crooked veneers placed over their front surface will give a straight and perfectly aligned looking smile.

Have you always wanted veneers but been put off by the drilling down of your own natural teeth? We have the perfect solution lumineers by cerinate. The innovate technology behind cerinate porcelain means that lumineers can be made as thin as a contact lens and are translucent enough to look like your real teeth. And even better, there is no painful fitting or need to use a drill.

The perfect solution to...

• Permanently whiten
• Fix uneven spacing
• Lengthen short teeth
• Reshape awkward teeth

For more information visit www.lumineers.com

Unlike veneers, porcelain crowns cover all surfaces of the tooth and are used only when the tooth is fractured or very broken down.

The porcelain used is the same as that used for veneers so they are strong and look just as natural.

Being made of porcelain they do not leave a black line at the gum level as seen in so many conventional crowns.