Crowns & Bridges Pictures

Details: One might look at the dark color of these teeth or the crooked alignment of them as being the main incentive to "correct" this situation. Actually, the main incentive was that he was slowly grinding away his front teeth and was concerned that they were so short, they couldn't be seen. Since this patient decided against a full mouth rehabilitation, we agreed to restore the function to the front teeth, protect them with ceramic crowns and enhance his smile all at the same time. What we see here is the front 6 teeth with artistically designed temporary crowns. We will crown the additional 2 teeth on the left and apply porcelain laminates to the existing bridge on the right to avoid the replacing of an otherwise functional bridge.

Details: A few features of this patient's condition were that the front teeth were set back behind the lower front edges. This in conjunction with the ground down front teeth(due to grinding) prevented the front teeth from showing when he smiled. So, we extended the teeth and overlapped them, over the lower front teeth and created a favorable style of occlusion(bite) which would protect the edges of the final restorations. The edge of the temporaries have slight irregularities that I added to later. The added length along with the corrected tooth position gave this gentleman a way to preserve his front teeth, make them whiter and last but not least, gave him a wonderful smile makeover that allowed him to smile the whole day of his daughter's Bat Mitzvah. I should know, I was there.

Details: A few more before photos to get an idea of what a destructive habit can do to natural teeth.