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One new tooth was coming either way. Patricia had never liked her older crowns, so the real question was what else to change while we were in there.
Patricia came in after one of her upper front teeth broke off. Her oral surgeon removed what was left and placed an implant. Then the implant needed time to heal.The broken tooth wasn't her only frustration. Several of her front teeth already had older porcelain-over-metal crowns, and they'd always looked blocky and square to her. You can see it in her photos from that first visit.
Think of it like a renovation. Once the wall is already open for one repair, that's the easiest time to fix anything else behind it. So while the implant healed, Dr. Lawnin asked Patricia whether anything about her smile bothered her.
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Patricia saw her new smile, and made changes to it, before we touched a single tooth.
We built a digital model of her upper teeth and planned the smile from her face first: where the edges should sit, how wide each tooth should be, and how the whole arc should follow her lips.
We made a mockup of the design she could try on, so she saw it on her own face before committing to anything. She liked it, asked for a few small changes, and we made them.
Her natural teeth got veneers. Teeth that already had crowns got new ones. The implant got a custom connector, called an abutment, and its own crown. Guides made from the design showed us exactly how much space each restoration needed, so we removed only that much. That matters because tooth structure doesn't grow back.
Patricia wanted teeth that looked like teeth. We opened up the small spaces between the edges, called embrasures, and added the ridges and texture real teeth have. Her new restorations read softer and less uniform than the square crowns they replaced.
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