Madam Giang and Mr Collier have been regular patients of ours. However, they will be relocating to the United States and therefore Madam Giang requested for a smile makeover before they leave Malaysia. She wanted whiter teeth and to have her “little tooth” (known as…
Gaps in between front teeth. Do I need to correct it and close or fill the gaps? or can I just leave it as it is? These are the questions that patients keep asking themselves. Well, the choice is yours. Some might like the gap…
Miss Roz came to see me regarding her shaky front tooth. It’s been shaky for a very very long time, and she’s been putting off getting treatment for it because she was afraid of the answer I might give her. And true enough, I did recommend her to remove the tooth. But I also told her, she wouldn’t need to wait for a replacement of her tooth. She could have it right now!
I offered to replace her very loose tooth with a fibre reinforced bridge, using the same tooth itself after extracting and cleaning it of course.
So once the extraction was done, I quickly managed the bleeding, kept the area clean and isolated it properly. Once the tooth was cleaned and reshaped, I placed the fibre threads around her other teeth and bonded the extracted tooth at the exact same place. The beauty of a fibre reinforced bridge is that it helps in multiple areas of treatment:
Replaces a missing tooth
Strengthens and stabilises the other shaky teeth
Has minimum preparation of other teeth to hold and support the bridge
Quick, easy and can be done in one treatment session.
Some finer adjustments were made so that the spaces and gaps were filled to allow proper bonding of the bridge to the adjacent teeth. And after giving Miss Roz all the necessary post-operative care instructions, she was good to go!
What do you see from the above photo? If you say crooked lower teeth , you are right. If you say, the height of the lower teeth are uneven , you’re also right. If you say, the left lower incisor (front tooth) is slightly whiter…
Miss Wirda came to see me requesting to redo her composite veneers that she did with another dentist. She wasn’t happy with the color of the veneers. She told me that it had a patchy white and brown spot even after second redo with the…