Blog - Cosmetic dentistry
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10 Ways to Ruin a Smile Makeover
Don’t Destroy Your Porcelain Veneers! With more than 12 years of doing cosmetic dentistry under my belt, including veneers, crowns, bridges, implants, and various combinations thereof, it is still surprising sometimes to hear a new way that a patient has chipped, cracked, or broken one of the beautiful restorations in their smile. Obviously, this is […]
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Our Convenient Dental Office
Have you ever gone to the dentist for a problem, only to learn that you were going to have to see 1 or even several specialists to get all your treatment done? It’s a bit irritating and inconvenient, isn’t it? Even having to make appointments at the dentist and the orthodontist to get a cleaning […]
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Teeth Whitening for Brown or White Spots
Have you tried teeth whitening many times without success? Do you have brownish or whitish patches on your teeth that just don’t change, no matter what you’ve tried? Have you tried the In-Office “Laser” Whitening, the super-high concentration gels, the Crest White Strips……EVERYTHING…..only to see your teeth the same after 2 weeks? If you’re looking for […]
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Six Month Adult Braces + 2 CEREC Porcelain Veneers = a happy patient!
Since we started doing Six Month Braces in 2004, the number of smile makeovers that we’ve done with porcelain veneers has dropped dramatically. This is because we can create beautiful smiles much more conservatively with Six Month Adult Braces than we can with veneers, simply because there is no drilling on the teeth. There are […]
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Complete Smile Makeover with Porcelain Crowns
A Full-Mouth Smile Reconstruction Quite some time ago, I showed this case as an example of how badly teeth can be damaged by grinding them, whether at night, in the daytime, or both, and why something as simple and inexpensive as a nightguard (my recommendation is a NTI-tss). It is especially inexpensive in comparison to […]
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Tetracycline-stained teeth: a Complete Smile Makeover
How to Fix Teeth Stained by Tetracycline When it comes to teeth that were stained a VERY dark brown or grey when you were young and took the antibiotic tetracycline, there are unfortunately not a lot of options for making a dramatic change. While Deep BleachingTM is the most conservative option, it isn’t necessarily for […]
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