Whitening procedures have effectively restored the smile of people with stained, dull, or discolored teeth.
The need for cosmetic dentistry is directly related to the patient’s sense of aesthetics which varies between individuals.
Preventative or preventive dentistry is not a dental speciality but a concept related to dental practice aiming at preventing dental and oral diseases.
Restorative dentistry is a science concerned with the prevention of dental caries and with operations for restoring teeth damaged by caries, trauma, impaired function, attrition, and erosion, so that they may provide an optimal service in terms of health, function and cosmetics.
Paediatric dentistry, or paedodontics, is a dental practice concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of dental caries, premature loss of the deciduous and permanent teeth, oral abnormalities, diseases, and injuries in children.
Elderly dentistry, or gerodontoloty, is a dental practice concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of specific dental and oral diseases of the elderly patient.