SMILE LIFTS

Smile Lifts

Are you looking for a way to rejuvenate your appearance without surgery? If so, then consider a smile lift from Riverlands Dental. With this advanced approach, we can not only restore your teeth, we can help your face to look younger by reducing the appearance of wrinkles.  

Think you might be a candidate for a smile lift in Hawkesbury, please call (02) 4501 7930 today for an appointment with a cosmetic dentist at Riverlands Dental in North Richmond.

Benefits of a Smile Lift

If you are unhappy with facial wrinkles, you might be considering a facelift. However, a smile lift can also help you look younger, but has many benefits, such as: 
  • No surgery 
  • No downtime 
  • No surgical risks or complications 
  • Improve your smile, which also rejuvenates your appearance 
  • Restore your natural facial proportions 
Of course, the biggest benefit of a smile lift is that it’s nonsurgical. This means that you can avoid many of the problems of surgery. One big problem with facelift surgery is that it can lead to a lot of downtime. After facelift surgery, you will have to take several days off, and you might experience severe swelling and bruising of the face for weeks after surgery. And it’s not just work you give up, you have to avoid strenuous exercise for four weeks or more.  

Plus, surgery comes with many serious risks. Facelift surgery can result in adverse scarring, nerve damage, dangerous infections, and more.  

While a facelift just works on wrinkles, a smile lift achieves more. It restores your teeth, helping them look more youthful, which can also help you look much younger.  

Facelifts have another problem: they can make you look different, not younger. That’s because they are just stretching your skin over your face. Even if you avoid the dreaded windswept appearance, if the proportions of your face have changed because of tooth wear, you won't look like you, you’ll look different. Smile lifts restore your face to its natural youthful proportions, so you’ll look like you.

How a Smile Lift Works

Our skin, fat pads, muscles, bones, and teeth all develop together. When we are young adults, these are all in proportion with each other.  

However, over time, our teeth can wear down, which shrinks the vertical dimension of our face. This means that the different components of our face are no longer in proportion. The skin and fat pads are now too large for the structures that used to support them. This causes them to sag and fold, which can result in many common symptoms of facial aging, such as:  
  • Jowls
  • Turkey neck 
  • Wrinkles around the mouth 
This is known as the “concertina effect.” 

A facelift assumes that the problem is too much skin and related tissues. So the strategy is to pull the skin tight over your contracted profile and cut away the “excess.” 

A smile lift, on the other hand, works to restore your youthful proportions by repairing damaged and worn teeth. By restoring your natural teeth proportions, your face proportions are also restored. Not only will you look younger, but your teeth can function better, and you might even see relief from temporomandibular joint disorders (TMJ or TMD).

Is a Smile Lift Right for You?

Facial aging is different for everyone, and a facelift might be the best way to rejuvenate your appearance. But before you get one, you should consider whether a smile lift might be a better choice. Let us evaluate your facial appearance and your teeth--we'll let you know if you're a candidate.  

Please call (02) 4501 7930 today for an appointment with a Hawkesbury cosmetic dentist at Riverlands Dental in North Richmond.
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