Originally Posted by swnymor1963:
“I`am a Dentist....Liz has beautiful teeth.
I hate the straighter than straight....and whiter than white Hollywood look......I see countless patients who have what I would consider perfect teeth but for some unknown reason would be happy to have them unnecessarily filed down and Porcelain veneers cemented to the front of their otherwise healthy teeth......I just log on to the net and show them a few images of Katie Price or Jodie Marshe`s porcelain nashers, in the vain hope it might put them off.
Veneers and crowns have their place in Dentistry but as a profession we are trying to dissuade patients from destroying perfectly sound, tooth tissue.
I`d be seriously rich if I agreed to give every patient the cosmetic treatment they want....but don`t need.....I know someone else will do it.....but at least I`v taken the time to warn them about all the potential long term problems....which many make-over programs fail to mention.”
“I`am a Dentist....Liz has beautiful teeth.
I hate the straighter than straight....and whiter than white Hollywood look......I see countless patients who have what I would consider perfect teeth but for some unknown reason would be happy to have them unnecessarily filed down and Porcelain veneers cemented to the front of their otherwise healthy teeth......I just log on to the net and show them a few images of Katie Price or Jodie Marshe`s porcelain nashers, in the vain hope it might put them off.
Veneers and crowns have their place in Dentistry but as a profession we are trying to dissuade patients from destroying perfectly sound, tooth tissue.
I`d be seriously rich if I agreed to give every patient the cosmetic treatment they want....but don`t need.....I know someone else will do it.....but at least I`v taken the time to warn them about all the potential long term problems....which many make-over programs fail to mention.”
As someone who had to have several crowns fitted to repair broken teeth after a facial injury in my teens, I couldn't agree more.
I get so annoyed when I see yet one more person who has had their perfectly healthy and perfectly normal looking teeth tampered with.
I would give anything to have my natural teeth back (albeit that I was lucky enough to have very straight and almost white teeth).
I have endured several problems that I'm sure are among those you may explain - the latest being an uncomfortable gap that has developed between my two front teeth and displacement of my pre-incisor to an extent that at a distance, it looks like it's missing.
Throughout the years, they have even affected my being able to eat certain things.
That's just the tip of the iceberg. If more people knew the potential long-term problems, most of them would leave well alone.
