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Sunday, January 11, 2009

Cosmetic Dentistry and Porcelain Veneers Transforms Multiple Discolored Teeth Into Sensational Smile by Dr. Huefner

After breaking several of his front teeth, Jeff had them fixed with plastic bonding filling material back in the early 1980s. But over the next two decades the old fashioned materials of that era discolored significantly and Jeff was ready for a change. He wanted to know what newer and better techniques and materials we had today so that he could finally have a “nice smile without discolored, chipped teeth”? Jeff made it very clear to us that he wasn’t looking for a “perfect smile”, just wanting to fix the front teeth that looked so bad.

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Our advice was to first bleach all his teeth (teeth whitening) so that whatever he chose to do, the final result would be matching the other whiter teeth, not the other yellowed teeth. He did that and got a great result with the “home tray method” of teeth whitening.

Then we discussed doing porcelain veneers on his upper front teeth, either four porcelain veneers to match the other teeth, or eight porcelain veneers to create a uniform shaped new smile. Jeff chose to only do the four front teeth with porcelain veneers.

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The results we achieved for Jeff was great, but it could still be better. If you look closely, you’ll note that the canine (eye) tooth on his right (your left) is inset, and not straight. We discussed that if anytime in the future Jeff wanted to have us place a porcelain veneer on that tooth to make it match the other side, we could do that for him.
Dr. Norman Huefner, General and Cosmetic Dentistry, Laguna Niguel, CA

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