Want to Be Beautiful? Get your teeth cleanings!

We have written about the importance of teeth cleanings to keep your teeth, and for avoiding expensive problems later on in life. But to motivate you to get your cleanings, we are going to talk about the relationship between teeth and something dear to us all…how we are perceived by others. Your mouth and your teeth are central factors to how beautiful or handsome you may be perceived to be.

A study focusing on tooth discoloration found that decayed or stained teeth lead to negative personality judgments, while whitened teeth receive more positive attributes, regardless of gender or viewer demographics. Eye-tracking research showed that problematic dental features—like crowding, diastema, gummy smile—drew viewer attention and reduced facial attractiveness scores, especially in faces already considered attractive. A large survey found that over half of adult patients were dissatisfied with their dental appearance—tooth color dissatisfaction alone tripled the odds of low self-satisfaction. Dissatisfaction was also significantly associated with perceived misalignment or protrusion.  Finally, studies confirm that dental appearance contributes to a halo effect: people associate attractive smiles and well‑kept teeth with traits like intelligence, warmth, and trustworthiness  

These things while seemingly small have a large effect on your life. And we are here not to just give you a normal life, but the best life possible, meaning we take cosmetics into consideration when doing crowns, fillings, and yes cosmetic dentistry (veneers, Invisalign). Dr. Alcantara is an artist herself, and knows what beauty looks like. For her and for modern dentistry, a beautiful smile is the ultimate goal. And it is down to a science. -ProDentalFx, LLC (Sources: Very Well, Nature, PMC, Biomed Central, Wikipedia)