These two patients today had badly broken down teeth. One option would have been to extract the teeth and place implants. I wanted to try to save the teeth by building them up and placing crowns. Here are the before and after photos.
This patient wanted me to give her a pretty smile in time for her sister’s wedding. Here’s the before and after pictures. Her smile looks beautiful.
This patient was hit in the mouth with a tennis racquet and broke his front tooth. The tooth also required a root canal, and periodontal crown lengthening surgery. I placed a temporary crown on the tooth for 2 months while the gums healed and did a computerized custom shade match to obtain a perfect color match.
For this patient today, I removed 2 porcelain fused to metal crowns that she recently had done in El Salvador, cleaned up the decay underneath, polished her other teeth, and placed 2 beautiful new zirconia crowns. She was so happy and has a beautiful smile for Christmas :-)))
This patient today broke off his upper lateral incisor. We discussed the different restorative options. I told him I would try to save the root and build a tooth back up for him and place a crown. The tooth had a root canal many years ago. I drilled out the canal and cemented a titanium post inside the canal and build the tooth up. I prepared the tooth and made and cemented a zirconium crown over the build-up.
This patient was concerned with her decayed upper right lateral incisor. I was able to remove the decay on that tooth and the adjacent one without a root canal, build-up the tooth, and restore the tooth with a beautiful zirconia crown. Here’s the before and after pictures.
This first patient came to see me for this broken lower molar. He said he had 4 silver amalgam fillings placed in his lower molar over the last 10 years by various dentists and the tooth or filling and kept breaking. I told him he needs a crown. Here’s the pre-treatment x-ray, and photo of the broken tooth before and after removal of the old filling and decay, composite build-up and placement of the porcelain crown.
This next patient broke her molar biting into an almond. I removed the broken part and old amalgam filling and restored this tooth with a crown. Here’s the before and after photos.
This next patient broke her last molar and old amalgam filling biting on hard seed. Here’s this before and after.
This patient bit down on a fork and fractured his upper left lateral incisor in half. We cleaned and polished his teeth, and I restored the tooth with a porcelain crown. He was very happy.
This patient came to me wanting me to fix his smile. I did this with 6 porcelain crowns on his upper front teeth. He was very happy with his new smile and now we are working to get his gums in better shape.
This patient chipped her front tooth and I restored her smile with a porcelain crown
