Notice, no ugly metal lines.   As of 2012, cosmetic dentistry has come a long way.  These four (two-two unit splints) were cemented on two implants and two natural teeth in December 2012.  Most of my Dentist Palm Harbor patients want the most cosmetic result possible.  This type of crown is quickly displacing the standard porcelain fused to metal crowns that have been the most commonly placed crown in the United States (world?) until recently.  For back teeth, the full milled zirconia crown is or shortly will be king of crowns.

BEFORE

AFTER

Bonding is done in dental offices not only throughout Tampa but across the United States and the world.  These pictures show chairside dental bonidng done in my Dentist office in Palm Harbor, FL on August 15, 2012.

This woman presented to my Tampa Bay, FL dental office this morning requesting that I improve the look of this upper left front tooth.  This is tooth #11 in the tooth #10′s position.  The secondary tooth #10 was congenitally missing and the orthodontist had move tooth #11 into its position.  Then a cuspid/canine tooth was cosmetically altered to look like a lateral incisor.  the existing bonding had broken down and was removed and replaced in my dentist office in the Tampa Florida area.

Both before and after pictures are seen.

A beautiful Smile

Natural Smile

What is beauty?  As the saying goes, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”

Even though I am a dentist in the Tampa area of Florida, a tooth expert one might say, my idea of beauty may not be the same as the readers.  To technically describe a beautiful female smile removes the emotions attached to beauty, but this is what I do every day in my dentist office in Palm Harbor.

My description of a beautiful, natural female smile applies to this picture.  The central incisors (two front teeth) should be large and round.  Very importantly, they should be centered with the midline of the nose (Tom Cruise’s is WAY off)  and the lips can slightly cover the tooth or slight amount of gums can show.  If gums do show, the space between the centrals needs pink healthy tissue with no dark holes.  On tho the lateral incisors (the teeth next to the two front teeth.  The lateral incisors should be rounded, 1/2 – 1 mm shorter than the centrals and 2/3 the width of the central incisors.  The tip of the cuspids (canines, eye teeth) should be pointy and the same length as the central incisors.  The bicuspids and even the  first and possibly second molars can and do show in some very full female smiles.  Farrah Faucet’s smile was so full that she showed 14 teeth!  Imagine that even as a kid I was looking at smiles!