Cosmetic makeovers in Leander.

It is rarely a crisis. People come in because something finally registered. A daughter’s quinceañera or a son’s graduation is on the calendar, there will be a wall of photos, and the smile in the practice shots does not match the one they remember. Or it is a class reunion, or a milestone birthday, and they have decided they are done feeling like their teeth give away more years than their face does.

What actually changed is rarely one big thing. The color drifts first. Coffee and red wine darken the teeth a few shades over the years, so gradually that nobody clocks it until an old photo turns up. There is usually some wear underneath that. Front teeth flatten and lose a little height from clenching. For a lot of these parents that set in during the busiest years, when the job and the kids and the Crystal Falls mortgage were all going at once. On top of all that sits whatever they have always disliked. Maybe a gap. Maybe a chipped corner. Whatever it is, it has started bugging them more lately than it did for the last decade.

Here is the reassuring part. The fix is almost always lighter than people walk in fearing. A full set of veneers is overkill for most of them. We usually start by whitening the teeth back toward their natural shade. After that it might be nothing more than rebuilding a couple of worn edges in composite. Sometimes it is one thin veneer on the tooth that shows the most. Either way we sketch the end result first and match it to your face before touching anything. What people tend to notice afterward is that you look rested, though they cannot always say why.