How Does an Outstanding Smile Change Your Life?

If you have struggled with gum disease and the other negative impacts of periodontal disease know that great smiles can be created for you too. The days are over of you living with a smile you don’t love. While it may take some time and effort, it is important to enhance your smile if you can.  Here’s why:

1.     It improves your job prospects. Employers report that they look at a prospective employee’s smile in the first thirty seconds of an interview. If a person has missing, cracked or stained teeth, employers are less likely to offer the job. Periodontist Dr. Denine Rice says, "if you are applying for a front line position, or in which there is an opportunity on you being directly seen by customers." There are several judgments that are made, including that you do not care about your personal hygiene and will therefore, not care for the job or the customers or clients.

2.     It improves your social prospects if you are single. While your potential mate is out there, when they first see you and you smile at them, your smile can change what their response is. When you have a healthy, white smile it lets others know you care about your appearance, and that you are someone who takes care of their personal hygiene. It allows others to know how important your health is to you.

3.     "It improves your self-confidence. Individuals who smile more release a healthy dose of endorphins to help improve overall mood," says Dr. Rice. If you do not smile often, because you are embarrassed by your smile, your self-esteem may decrease as people around you see you as grumpy or mean instead of positive and outgoing.  

Don’t let a less than best smile keep you from enjoying all that life has to offer.