The face is the most recognizable feature of a person. The mouth, which consists of the lips, cheeks, jaws, teeth, and gums, makes up the lower part of the face. Cosmetic (or aesthetic) dentistry exists to provide strong changes to the quality of life for when people who require it.

Cosmetic dentistry can be defined as skeletal or dental. Skeletal manipulations are made through oral surgery, which will change the location of the jaws. Dental changes is made in either adding to, removing, or moving the teeth alone. The typical materials to add to teeth to change their appearance are bonding, a tooth-coloured plastic, or porcelain, a kind of ceramic. Detracting from tooth structure is achieved with a drill. If only a small part of the tooth is extracted, it is simply sculpting or reshaping, and nothing new is later added. If a more significant amount of tooth is removed, then porcelain will be added in a newly created location. Relocating teeth is accomplished by use of braces, which can be either fixed or removable.

Reconstructive dentistry
Reconstructive dentistry involves any severe reconstructing of the mouth, generally with using porcelain and metal. Reconstructive dentistry is usually desired by those individuals who have numerous and dangerous cavities, have generalized serious gum disease, or have been in an accident. Reconstructive dentistry generally involves a combination of every the dental specialties; the patients might need multiple crowns (caps), gum therapy, root canal therapy, braces, or oral surgery, and also dental implants.

Reconstructions are figured to first deter the continuing of existing disease and secondly to fix the damage. Emotional components of treatment, like fear, are very often involved, and the dentist needs to be considerate and bring an understanding of psychology. Serious likely causes of postoperative pain are usually eliminated early during the treatment by way of root canal therapy when required. The construction of final porcelain bridges frequently begins 6 to 12 weeks following the completion of any such surgery. It is necessary for patients to know that reconstructed teeth require scheduled cleanings and maintenance.

Implant dentistry
A dental implant is a replicated tooth root. It is inserted to hold artificial teeth to the existing jawbone. Dental implants should be analogized as screws, and the jawbone could be considered a piece of wood. In this parallel, a screw would be inserted at half its length into a piece of wood, and an artificial tooth would be stuck to the exposed area of the screw projecting over the wood. The tooth would be strongly secured to the screw, which in itself should be securely attached in the wood. A single dental implant may be created for a single removed tooth. Four to eight dental implants might be placed in a jaw that is missing most teeth.

Dental implants must be put in a satisfactory amount of bone that is free of disease. In other circumstances surgical procedures are necessary before either to treat existing disease or to manufacture supplementary bone for implantations, such as bone ridge augmentation or nasal sinus elevation. The surgery to set dental implants themselves is almost like that of tooth removal.

Dental implant reconstructions can take between 6 to 12 months to complete, simply because of the healing time required between each of the surgeries. Understanding bone is living tissue, it requires time to accede in kind to the biocompatible titanium implants. The biophysics of the early cellular response of the hard (bone) and soft (skin and ligament) tissues to dental implantation is an area of intense research and argument. The positives of this kind of research are used in orthopedics for example, with replacing spinal rods and healing of difficult broken bones, both of which demand screws for correct immobilization.

Implant dentistry has adapted into a extremely common treatment scheme for most patient.

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