This patient came into Dr. Eshom’s San Diego cosmetic dental office with prior dental porcelain veneers that made her teeth look bulky and unfeminine. Some cosmetic dentists use Lumineer-type porcelain dental veneers, which are prep-less dental porcelain veneers that require no removal of tooth structure. Prepless porcelain veneers are an ideal dental solution in some cases, but for the vast majority of patients, natural looking porcelain veneers require some preparation of the tooth. With an experienced cosmetic dentist, the minimal amount of preparation needed to create natural looking porcelain dental veneers is worth it.
Placement of Lumineer-type dental porcelain veneers without an experienced cosmetic dentist can lead to unnatural, bulky dental porcelain veneers. Unless your smile has lots of gaps, or teeth that slant inward and need to built outward—you usually end up with bulky, fake-looking teeth. The small amount of tooth structure removal for minimally prepped veneers can go a long way to giving you that natural looking smile. Cosmetic dentist Dr. Eshom’s experience with minimally prepared porcelain veneers corrected the bulkiness of this patient’s previous dental work. By preparing this patient’s teeth for the placement of dental porcelain veneers, it provided the patient with slender and more natural looking teeth.
Living in Southern California, we are fully aware of how teeth can affect your entire look. Teeth whitening has become a huge trend and it is hard to keep up with the brilliant white standard for teeth whitening set by celebrities.
It’s not hard to see how appealing white teeth can be... Teeth whitening instantly brightens your entire face, and having a perfectly straight smile is an added bonus. This patient came to cosmetic dentist, Dr. Eshom wanting a picture perfect smile. Dr. Eshom and his dental team developed a plan to improve her smile through teeth whiting, porcelain veneers, and dental crowns.
The first step to improving our patient’s smile with cosmetic dentistry was teeth whitening to remove unwanted stains which had accumulated over the years. Whitening the teeth before any other dentistry procedures allows the cosmetic dentist to match the dental material to your natural tooth color (rather than matching the natural tooth color to the porcelain veneers, a much more difficult goal to reach.
After teeth whitening, cosmetic dentist Dr. Eshom worked on making her teeth look more symmetrical by placing porcelain veneers, crowns, and some dental bonding of a tooth colored material to the edges of her teeth. When deciding on dental treatment to correct you asymmetrical teeth, as cosmetic dentist, Dr. Eshom about money saving techniques that still result in that perfect smile.
San Diego Dental Porcelain Veneers Restoration Before and After
This patient came into Dr. Eshom’s San Diego cosmetic dental office with prior dental porcelain veneers that made her teeth look bulky and unfeminine. Some cosmetic dentists use Lumineer-type porcelain dental veneers, which are prep-less dental porcelain veneers that require no removal of tooth structure. Prepless porcelain veneers are an ideal dental solution in some cases, but for the vast majority of patients, natural looking porcelain veneers require some preparation of the tooth. With an experienced cosmetic dentist, the minimal amount of preparation needed to create natural looking porcelain dental veneers is worth it.
Placement of Lumineer-type dental porcelain veneers without an experienced cosmetic dentist can lead to unnatural, bulky dental porcelain veneers. Unless your smile has lots of gaps, or teeth that slant inward and need to built outward—you usually end up with bulky, fake-looking teeth. The small amount of tooth structure removal for minimally prepped veneers can go a long way to giving you that natural looking smile. Cosmetic dentist Dr. Eshom’s experience with minimally prepared porcelain veneers corrected the bulkiness of this patient’s previous dental work. By preparing this patient’s teeth for the placement of dental porcelain veneers, it provided the patient with slender and more natural looking teeth.
Kevin was a manager for a well known company. Co-workers had commented that his teeth looked older than he did, which didn’t match the image Kevin saw of himself. A patient of Dr. Eshom’s dental practice, Kevin scheduled an appointment for a cosmetic dentistry consultation. Dr. Eshom recommended that Kevin do one-hour laser teeth whitening followed by at home tooth whitening trays, and six porcelain veneers to correct his front teeth gaps and spaces. An advantage of porcelain veneers over orthodontic procedures for correcting gaps and spaces is the reduced treatment time and absence of awkward, metal braces.
Cosmetic Dentist Tip: Sometimes your smile can get a much needed face-lift by simply addressing the dark stains and chipped edges. In the case of Kevin, his general dentistry reflected an older version of himself that didn’t match the youthfulness of how he felt. An advantage of porcelain dental veneers is a strong, permanent youth that radiates every time you smile.
Since the smile makeover, Kevin has been promoted and his smile let’s everyone know just how young he feels!
Using an artist’s eye is important in cosmetic dentistry and especially for natural looking porcelain dental veneers. Knowing proportions of each tooth in the smile is vital to creating dental porcelain veneers that look like they are your own teeth. Also, seeing angles of teeth to the face, nose, eyes and the horizon is important so that the smile fits the face properly and doesn’t point in an unpleasant direction. In this case a beautiful young woman wanted a more pleasing smile that would match the rest of her already beautiful face, skin, hair and eyes. Her front teeth were disproportional to nature (her teeth were too long for their width) and pointed sideways from her eyes and the horizon (her teeth were angled or canted to her left). In order to create the pleasing smile you see, we not only had to change the proportion of her front teeth but the angle too. Only 4 porcelain dental veneers were placed to make the perfect smile for this patient. If a cosmetic dentist does not have the experience and artist’s eye he/she may have tried to do only 2 veneers that would look fake, leaving the teeth angled.
Dr. Eshom’s Dental Porcelain Veneer Smile Tip For Patients: For natural looking dental porcelain veneers make sure you have a cosmetic dentist that uses artistry and experience to veneer only the teeth that need treatment while making sure that proportions are correct in the final smile. Dr. Eshom makes his temporaries look just like the finals so that these proportions and angle are corrected before the final porcelain dental veneers are permanently bonded.
Using an artist’s eye is important in cosmetic dentistry and especially for natural looking porcelain dental veneers. Knowing proportions of each tooth in the smile is vital to creating dental porcelain veneers that look like they are your own teeth. Also, seeing angles of teeth to the face, nose, eyes and the horizon is important so that the smile fits the face properly and doesn’t point in an unpleasant direction. In this case a beautiful young woman wanted a more pleasing smile that would match the rest of her already beautiful face, skin, hair and eyes. Her front teeth were disproportional to nature (her teeth were too long for their width) and pointed sideways from her eyes and the horizon (her teeth were angled or canted to her left). In order to create the pleasing smile you see, we not only had to change the proportion of her front teeth but the angle too. Only 4 porcelain dental veneers were placed to make the perfect smile for this patient. If a cosmetic dentist does not have the experience and artist’s eye he/she may have tried to do only 2 veneers that would look fake, leaving the teeth angled.
Dr. Eshom’s Dental Porcelain Veneer Smile Tip For Patients: For natural looking dental porcelain veneers make sure you have a cosmetic dentist that uses artistry and experience to veneer only the teeth that need treatment while making sure that proportions are correct in the final smile. Dr. Eshom makes his temporaries look just like the finals so that these proportions and angle are corrected before the final porcelain dental veneers are permanently bonded.
Taking good care of your teeth is an important way to stay healthy. Recent studies have suggested that the health of your smile can be a good indication of the health of your heart. Remembering to visit your dentist regularly, brushing, flossing, or watching what you eat or drink can help your dental health significantly. In this case, signs of neglect include the yellow staining, the exposure of the dentin in the lower jaw, and the uneven shape of his teeth.
Dr. Eshom, an experienced cosmetic dentist, focuses on dental health as the most important concern of his La Jolla dental office. Dental health issues can be addressed while still maintaining an aesthetic approach with cosmetic dentistry. Laser dentistry can treat built up bacteria and plaque that harbors dental disease and destruction to the gums and with the placement of porcelain dental crowns, this patient’s worn, gapped smile will look brand new.
A full mouth restoration using porcelain dental crowns to close the gaps and whiten this patient’s teeth. Cosmetic dentist, Dr. Eshom with the specific needs of his patient in mind, created a treatment plan that put this patient’s cosmetic and general dentistry needs on the road to a healthier lifestyle.
Using an artist’s eye is important in cosmetic dentistry and especially for natural looking porcelain dental veneers. Knowing proportions of each tooth in the smile is vital to creating dental porcelain veneers that look like they are your own teeth. Also, seeing angles of teeth to the face, nose, eyes and the horizon is important so that the smile fits the face properly and doesn’t point in an unpleasant direction. In this case a beautiful young woman wanted a more pleasing smile that would match the rest of her already beautiful face, skin, hair and eyes. Her front teeth were disproportional to nature (her teeth were too long for their width) and pointed sideways from her eyes and the horizon (her teeth were angled or canted to her left). In order to create the pleasing smile you see, we not only had to change the proportion of her front teeth but the angle too. Only 4 porcelain dental veneers were placed to make the perfect smile for this patient. If a cosmetic dentist does not have the experience and artist’s eye he/she may have tried to do only 2 veneers that would look fake, leaving the teeth angled.
Dr. Eshom’s Dental Porcelain Veneer Smile Tip For Patients: For natural looking dental porcelain veneers make sure you have a cosmetic dentist that uses artistry and experience to veneer only the teeth that need treatment while making sure that proportions are correct in the final smile. Dr. Eshom makes his temporaries look just like the finals so that these proportions and angle are corrected before the final porcelain dental veneers are permanently bonded.
Misaligned teeth can have a larger affect on your teeth than you may think. In this case, because this patient’s teeth were misaligned, it caused extreme wearing down of the teeth, even into the dentin (the interior tooth tissue). With teeth this worn down, everyday activities can become extremely hard to do. Exposed dentin can cause teeth to become sensitive, vulnerable to cavities, and can cause difficulty in eating.
Porcelain veneers can be used for aesthetic and health reasons.
In cosmetic dentist Dr. Eshom’s San Diego dental office, oral health is considered to be a top priority. To fix the exposed dentin and the worn down teeth, cosmetic dentist Dr. Eshom placed a combination of porcelain crowns and porcelain veneers on the most exposed worn teeth of his smile. In this case, careful placement of the porcelain veneers and crowns were necessary to prevent eventual grinding. To put a stop to the grinding, the shape of the porcelain veneers and crowns were carefully chosen and properly aligned. In addition, this patient was given a night guard to use while sleeping when grinding is most prevalent. Take a look at his before and after photos—the end result is indescribable!
Using an artist’s eye is important in cosmetic dentistry and especially for natural looking porcelain dental veneers. Knowing proportions of each tooth in the smile is vital to creating dental porcelain veneers that look like they are your own teeth. Also, seeing angles of teeth to the face, nose, eyes and the horizon is important so that the smile fits the face properly and doesn’t point in an unpleasant direction. In this case a beautiful young woman wanted a more pleasing smile that would match the rest of her already beautiful face, skin, hair and eyes. Her front teeth were disproportional to nature (her teeth were too long for their width) and pointed sideways from her eyes and the horizon (her teeth were angled or canted to her left). In order to create the pleasing smile you see, we not only had to change the proportion of her front teeth but the angle too. Only 4 porcelain dental veneers were placed to make the perfect smile for this patient. If a cosmetic dentist does not have the experience and artist’s eye he/she may have tried to do only 2 veneers that would look fake, leaving the teeth angled.
Dr. Eshom’s Dental Porcelain Veneer Smile Tip For Patients: For natural looking dental porcelain veneers make sure you have a cosmetic dentist that uses artistry and experience to veneer only the teeth that need treatment while making sure that proportions are correct in the final smile. Dr. Eshom makes his temporaries look just like the finals so that these proportions and angle are corrected before the final porcelain dental veneers are permanently bonded.
Small details can have a large impact on your smile. For example, this patient’s two front teeth had edges that looked dinged, tipped and unnatural. Although it may have been a small detail, the two front teeth didn’t match the shape of her side front teeth.
Cosmetic dentist Dr. Eshom in San Diego used dental porcelain veneers to fix the unnatural edges of the two front teeth veneers to correct the old bonding on her side teeth to create a tooth shape that flowed into the rest of our patient’s smile. The feminine rounded edges of her cosmetic dentistry treatment gave this patient a youthful, softer look to her already beautiful face.
Dr. Eshom's cosmetic dentistry tip: the shape of the veneer makes it look natural; not just the shade.
Just like Tom Cruise, you may notice that this patent’s teeth are leaning on an angle (canted) and are not perpendicular to the rest of this patient’s face. Canted teeth are not known to affect your oral health and people who choose to fix their canted teeth purely do so for aesthetic reasons. Canted teeth can develop over time and will not straighten eventually. Consulting an experienced cosmetic dentist is necessary to fix angled or canted teeth.
To corrected this patient’s canted teeth, cosmetic dentist Dr. Eshom placed one dental crown on the left central incisor (the left front tooth), three dental porcelain veneers on the other central incisor and on the two lateral incisors, and four other dental porcelain veneers were also placed on her lower four front teeth. Placing a dental veneer and a dental crown next to each other can be tricky—an artistic eye is necessary to create a realistic and natural looking smile. With cosmetic dentist Dr. Eshom’s experience, he can help you attain that straight smile that you are looking for.
Frequent illnesses at a young age and certain medications can cause the color of your teeth to look blotchy and discolored. Because the discoloration is not a surface stain, correcting it can be difficult without dental porcelain veneers. This young patient came to cosmetic dentist Dr. Eshom in San Diego with hopes of eventually having a beautiful smile. Besides having blotchy colored teeth, her teeth were unevenly shaped and did not have a uniform look that is commonly wanted in a smile. To create her new smile, ten porcelain dental veneers were placed to remove the blotchiness and to create that uniform look.
