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Smile Reconstruction Dentistry - Milwaukee
Case Studies in Smile Makeovers - Section 2
Welcome to our Visual Index - Directory. All of the material on this website is organized on visual representations of either Smiles (full face photos) or Procedures (close up photography) used by our doctors to address a particular need.
Face Lift Dentistry:
- Severe Uneven Wear and Tear
- Multiple Crown and Restoration Failures
- Tooth Rotations
- Occlusal Malalignment
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- Overclosed Bite
- Vertical Dimension Collapse
- Abnormal Jaw Positioning at rest position
- Loss of eating ability - certain foods
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| Treatment Choice: Restorative Replacements Outcome: Worn out restorations fabricated from outdated materials and methods were replaced with a primary focus on the overall smile shape the patient wanted. Teeth with natural size, colorations that felt natural were handcrafted. Click here to learn more about replacement treatments. |
Fixing Bad Veneers:
- First Veneer Treatment lasted only 2 years
- Color changed from white to yellowish
- Started to Chip at biting edges
- Suspected technical mistakes in original treatment
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- Probable preparation error
- Highly probable bonding error
- Suspected wrong choice of bonding cements - cementation process
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| Treatment Choice: Replacement: A variety of technical errors and mismatched bonding techniques caused multiple failures. Extra care taken during the preparation process assured precision color matching and bonding processes with premium feldspathic porcelain laminates that can endure for 10 - 20 years or more. Click here to read more details about fixing bad veneer dentistry. |
New Teeth Enamel:
- Childhood Antibiotic Medication History
- Common Developmental Staining Process
- Popular Teeth Whitening Not Effective
- Tetracycline Stains require no-fail treatment
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- Thin Shell Veneers not appropriate
- Stain depth eliminates ceramic laminates
- Best Stain blocking restorations required
- Permanent treatment requires crowns
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| Predictable Cosmetic Reconstruction: Tetracycline stains (and others caused by medications) are the most common and well known stubborn stains that don't respond well to popular veneering procedures. Veneer laminates have insuffient porcelain thickness and stain blocking characteristics. Click here to read how a patient redesigned her bite and smile line with reconstructive crowns. |
Genetic Defect - Missing Teeth:
- Common Childhood Developmental Anomoly
- Popular Missing Incisors
- Spaces not closed by Orthodontics
- Abnormal Bite and Occlusion Problems
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- Pre-treated with orthodontic alignment
- Incorrect treatment may cause future bone loss
- Young patient desires preservation of jawbone
- Dental Implants superior to Partials
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| Missing Teeth - Lateral Incisors: A common genetic defect that many patients choose to treat during adulthood. Although treated via orthodontics during early age, dental implants assure the Gold Standard of tooth replacement providing the normal occlusion and biting surfaces Mother Nature meant to provide. Click here to see how implant surgery is used to create new teeth that look and feel great. |
Denture Converting:
- Pain from partials
- Lopsided poor fitting partials
- Active Gum Disease
- Tooth Movement - Shifting Teeth
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- Mini implants for denture anchors
- No more chiclets
- Desire to eat normal foods again
- Sing and play instruments normally
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| Replacing painful loose fitting denture teeth: Loose teeth and poorly fitting partials that prevented eating normally motivated the patient to convert denture products into implant retained prosthetics that eliminated common problems with dentures. Free of pain and able to eat anything. Click here learn about Imtec mini implants that promote great bone health. |
Replace Patchwork Dentistry:
- Accumulation of Incidental Dentistry
- Different treatments create uneven wear
- Wanted to avoid future need for dentures
- Multiple crown failures
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- Too many metal - silver fillings
- Uneven Posterior Occlusion
- Severe decay
- Teeth beginning to tilt inward
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| Replacing worn out patch work dental treatments: Many people discover that dental treatments done here and there can create problems of mismatched teeth, uneven bites, strange color differences, to mention a few. Replacements of porcelain restorations, veneers and fillings can rebuild an entire smile with natural looking teeth that feel as good as they look. Click here to read how this patient created the appearance and dental function he always wanted. |
Jaw Trauma Damage Broken Teeth - Auto Accident:
- MD's predicted Jaw would never be normal
- Radical Bite - Occlusal Plane Relationship
- Lower Teeth biting into roof of mouth
- Malaligned Mandible and Maxilla
- Severe collapsed bite
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- Severe loss of Vertical Dimension
- Normal eating was painful
- Unable to eat normal foods - soft foods only
- Wanted to regain ability to eat
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| Jawbone damage caused by trauma: Jawbone damage treated with corrective surgery doesn't always correct things back to normal. For numerous technical reasons our patient lost his ability to eat normally, have naturally aligned teeth and jaws that functioned correctly. Reconstructive dental treatments recreated the normal appearance, bite and occlusal plane characteristics that were gone. Click here to read the details of how and what this patient chose to correct jaw problems caused in part by unsuccessful surgeries. |
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