Hiding My Smile
Case Studies
Meet some of our lovely patients and hear their stories first-hand.
Learn more about how our cutting-edge approach, tailored to each patient’s needs, can help you achieve a smile you’ll be proud of.
Wear, Tooth Loss, Implant Solutions to Rebuild Confidence and Health.
Missing teeth, years of fear and anxiety and loss of confidence led our patient to seek care to ensure the longevity of her remaining teeth in the later years of life. While tooth wear was present, it had largely affected back teeth, with many lost over the years and others worn and decayed. Eating was impacted, resulting in compromised health. Swipe to see the life-changing results for our patient.
Digital Planning For Implants to Replace Back Teeth
Removal of failing and broken back teeth, and placement of implants to restore a bite. The final design (bottom image) shows a complete set of top teeth reflecting implant supported bridges. Our patient still had great bone for implants. In the absence of adequate bone we look at other solutions, such as bone grafting with implants, or partial dentures.
Tooth Loss Creates Bite Collapse & Extra Load on Front Teeth
Tooth wear often leads to a bite collapse. Teeth become structurally compromised due to bite forces. Teeth grow down into gaps, changing their normal position in the bite. Acid erosion plays a part, particularly if reflux and stomach acid affect back teeth, and they can break in time or develop sensitivity. In frustration, teeth are removed leaving more gaps and a collapsing bite. Chewing efficiency is affected markedly. Teeth become more yellow and front teeth chip and break as all the chewing transfers to these teeth.
Digital Planning & Design to Place Implant Crowns & Bridges
Careful planning and design allowed us to open the bite and provide support with implant crowns and bridges. Chipped front teeth were repaired with cost effective composite bonding and a new healthy bite was re-established. Our patient can now chew anything and has regained the confidence to smile.
Severe Wear: Acid Erosion, Grinding, Sensitive Teeth
A transformed smile! After years of sensitivity, and seeing teeth become shorter, getting help was needed. This case was a full mouth complex reconstruction done in stages to rebuild teeth affected by acid erosion and grinding. Swipe to see the steps to achieve a confident smile.
The Impact of Acid Erosion
Acids from diet or reflux, in combination with tooth grinding can accelerate loss of tooth structure resulting in an overclosed flat bite. Acids dissolve tooth structure. The more frequent exposure we have to soft drinkk, soads, enegery drinks, juices - the faster the effect. Add stress and grinding to the mix, and tooth damage occurs much faster. In this case, the entire bite had collapsed, needing to be opened as we added height and length to each tooth.
The Impact of Acid Erosion
Acids from diet or reflux, in combination with tooth grinding can accelerate loss of tooth structure resulting in an overclosed flat bite. Acids dissolve tooth structure. The more frequent exposure we have to soft drinkk, soads, enegery drinks, juices - the faster the effect. Add stress and grinding to the mix, and tooth damage occurs much faster. In this case, the entire bite had collapsed, needing to be opened as we added height and length to each tooth.