Did You know Your Smile And Your Self Esteem Are Likely Linked?
The link between smiles and confidence explained
Having a big, beautiful white smile is typically an indication that the gums, teeth and surrounding tissues are healthy and working well.
That means you can chew and speak well, and your facial structure is maintained by your teeth and their roots.
As well as helping physical form, dental health also has a huge role to play when it comes to your self esteem and confidence. And it makes sense right?
We express ourselves with our smiles and our teeth are used in other processes too, not just eating. For example, our teeth also help to keep our faces free from premature hollowing due to ageing. If our teeth are not the way we want them to be, we won’t feel that great about how we interact with other people. Even something as simple as a bad breath problem can be enough to make a person self conscious and affect their social interactions with others. Your smile means so much more than a great selfie, or the ease of eating, and it is important to recognise its value in enhancing your confidence too.
Smiling Helps You Feel Good
Lots and lots of research shows that if you feel good about how you look, you feel good about who you are and who you are presenting to the world. When your teeth are clean and beautiful, you can smile and relax and laugh; you can be confident. Some studies even suggest that the simple physical act of smiling causes us to feel happy, and our smiles will then spread to others because smiling is actually contagious!
Smiling Helps You Look Good
Smiling is known to make you look more attractive to others and it is also known to help make you more employable. Having a big happy smile lets others around you know that you are feeling good, and that they should feel good around you. Smiling is also known to make people assume you are optimistic, outgoing and sociable. It can even suggest we are more intelligent and trustworthy! Many studies suggest that our smile really does have a huge part to play in our confidence and it really can hold the answer to making you look and feel good around other people.
How Poor Smile Confidence Could Affect You
If you are unhappy with your smile for whatever reason, whether it is because you have missing teeth, stained teeth or a combination of issues as a result of poor health or dental hygiene, your smile confidence could be low. You may suffer from a wide variety of consequences such as:
- Not smiling very often
- Covering your mouth when you speak
- Feeling ashamed of your smile
- Smiling only with your lips closed
- Avoiding dates and missing out on a special relationship
- Avoiding job interviews
- Avoiding social situations altogether
You may find that you avoid doing a lot of things because of your smile confidence, causing your life to be on hold because of dental issues.
You may also struggle with things like speaking because missing teeth affects how you sound. You could even struggle with your entire facial confidence as missing teeth have changed how you look.
A smile that is not how you want it to be can be absolutely detrimental to quality of life and often we don’t realise how integral it is to our confidence and how we feel about the way we look. After a long time, the way confidence is affected by the smile can seep into how we feel about ourselves in general. We may feel ashamed and lacking in confidence as a person; stemming from a smile that we feel we want to hide.
How Abbey Road Dental Can Help You Restore Your Smile And Your Confidence
Your local St John’s Wood clinic in NW8 is very experienced in transforming smiles. We have lots of experience in restoring smiles using the various techniques available to us in general, restorative and cosmetic dentistry. It might be one treatment, or a combination of treatments that you need. We can help you restore your smile health, and the associated confidence with a custom treatment plan based on your needs.
Restoring Your Smile Health First
Although we can help with the way your smile looks, the health of your smile is our first priority. It is important that our team takes care of any outstanding dental issues before working on how your smile looks. The health of your smile is the foundation on which we can base everything else, so it lasts and stays looking great for a long time.
There may be active gum disease, decay, broken teeth or other issues we have to look into first. We have the experience, skills and tools to ensure the health of your smile is fully restored, creating a great start to your complete smile makeover treatment.
Restorative & Cosmetic Dentistry
Once the health of your smile is restored, we can start to restore the way your smile looks. This could involve one treatment or several depending on your needs and your expectations. We can offer a wide range of treatments to restore your smile including:
- Professional teeth whitening
- Dental implants (including stabilising dental bridges and dentures)
- Crowns and bridges
- Cosmetic dentures
- Cosmetic bonding
- Adult teeth straightening
- White fillings
- Hygienist services
- Veneers
We have an experienced local team with a wide variety of skills able to provide you with professional restorative and cosmetic dentistry to complete your smile.
Take The First Step To Rebuilding Your Smile Confidence Today!
It may feel as though you can never be confident about your smile again. You might feel like you’re too embarrassed to do anything about it, or that it is so far beyond repair you just have to live with it as it is. But this need not be the case and the team here at Abbey Road Dental reassures you that you can still have the beautiful, complete smile you deserve.
There is no need to be embarrassed, we are here to help you not to judge you. Your consultation will be based around a physical examination to check the current condition of your teeth and gums, so we know exactly how to help you. We will then listen to your needs and expectations, restrictions and concerns and provide you with the treatment options we believe are the best way to restore your smile. We can work to your budget and we will ensure the cost of any treatment is transparent, as well as telling you what the treatments involved and how long they take to complete. We will give you all the information you need to make an informed decision about your smile treatment plan moving forward.
Ready to take that first step towards improved smile aesthetics and confidence?
Please give our friendly local clinic a call on 02076241603 and we will be pleased to book you in for a consultation at a time to suit you. Restoring your smile could completely transform your confidence and we are excited to help you get there with our wide range of exceptional treatments, skilled team members and modern tools and equipment.