Before & Afters

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Before: This patient presents with failing composite fillings on her right lateral and two front teeth. An old porcelain fused to metal crown is on her left lateral tooth. The metal margins on her old crown are peeking through her gums causing a dark line to show.

After: We replaced the fillings on her front teeth carefully matching her natural tooth color and also replaced her old crown with a more esthetic porcelain fused to zirconia crown.

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Before: This patient presented with extrinsic and intrinsic staining along with tartar (or calculus) build up between his lower teeth. 

After: After a thorough cleaning to remove extrinsic staining and tartar, we used the KöR MAX system to whiten the patient’s smile. KöR MAX is a super-effective whitening system that combines at-home whitening with a single in-office whitening visit.

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Before: This patient presented with eight failing broken veneers with significant decay underneath them.  He also had a lateral incisor with bone loss and mobility indicating a poor prognosis. The patient was not only concerned about the decay and missing tooth (after the extraction), but also concerned about how he could see the “edges” of the veneers and how bulky, fake and one-dimensional the veneers looked.  

After: We extracted the lateral incisor with a poor prognosis, cleaned up all the decay and restored the patient’s smile with two new veneers, a bridge and three new crowns.  After a deep cleaning and polish to remove the patient’s stains, we carefully color matched the restorations so that a natural look could be achieved.

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Before: This patient presented with a single broken veneer on his front tooth.
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After: A single veneer was carefully made to blend harmoniously with the patients smile. A careful custom shade and shape match was used to make sure the single veneer is undetectable.

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Before: This patient came in with two old crowns with failing margins that were showing when she smiled. Originally these crowns were placed by her previous dentist to enlarge the naturally smaller lateral incisors that naturally grew in when she was a kid (also called “peg laterals”).
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After: With the new crowns, we hid the margins just under her gums and also lengthened her laterals to make her smile feel younger and less “gummy”. The color match was ever so slightly lighter than the rest of her teeth ensuring that the color would blend nicely whether she decided to whiten her teething the future or leave them the way they are.

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Before: This patient came in with a gap (also called a "diastema") between his two front teeth that a previous dentist had attempted to fix with a composite filling on tooth #8 (right). The filling on the back of #8 had failed and caused a cavity to form on the back side. Tooth #9 (left) was previously chipped and repaired with a large failing filling that now had a cavity underneath and a large crack line down the middle.
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After: The patient was worried that fixing his two front teeth with crowns would take away from his characteristic smile and wanted us to make sure that his two front teeth were not too “perfect” and would therefore stick out from the rest of his smile. We carefully selected color, shape and size so that his two front teeth would be stabilized from the cavities and crack, while also blend in harmoniously with the rest of his smile, keeping things super natural looking. It was “imperfect” perfection.

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Before: Unfortunately, nothing lasts forever, and that includes composite fillings. This is a failed composite filling on a molar that clearly has decay underneath it (also known as “recurrent decay”).
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After: We carefully removed the old filling and all of the decay that was underneath and restored it with a new composite filling mimicking the tooth’s natural shape and color.

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Before: Over time fillings start to fail and one of the first signs of failing are stained detectable margins where the filling meets the tooth. Not all stained composite fillings need to be refilled, but when the staining is severe enough, leakage can happen and cavity causing bacteria can sneak underneath and cause bigger problems!
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After: We carefully removed the old filling and nothing more ensuring that we preserve as much tooth structure as possible. A brand new composite was used to restore this tooth.