QUEST FOR THE perfect smile

Inside the hot new beauty trend - a hybrid offering of cosmetic procedures and dental care

-  ELISE WILSON

Would you like botox with that? That's the question becoming more and more frequent across skincare clinics - and now also at your local dentist! The pursuit of the perfect selfie smile is big business and now Australian dentists are making it even easier to achieve with add-ons to your general teeth check-ups, including muscle relaxing injections, fillers, fat dissolving and even thread lifts (a type of non-surgical face lift).

It seems patients are no longer fully satisfied with general whitening or teeth straightening - they're coming in for a whole-mouth overhaul to correct anything from a 'gummy' or crooked smile to correcting their double chins. 

We sat down with Dr Amrinder Oberoi, founder of Sydney's Paramount Dental and Skin & Teeth, to find out more.

So, is offering injectable treatments a new thing for dentists?