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Glenn van AsSpectatorHi folks: Here is a case I did today for a nice patient of mine who wanted to improve on his smile. Wanted to remove the stained restorations and in addition wanted to uncrowd the teeth and even out the gingival heights (he is in the dental field).
I used the Argon laser at 0.9 watts Continuous to sculpt the anterior four maxillary incisors and then prepped the teeth and then took an impression and temporized.
Two canines are veneers to match the premolars which have crowns and the four incisors are full coverage crowns.
I rounded out the tissue and got a nice result with the temps I thought.
TIme will tell. PS you can do this with an Nd yag, diode or an Argon………the diode and Nd yag the tissue might stay a little better and not recede on the facial.
Glenn
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Robert GreggParticipantGlenn,
Nice job!
You even covered yourself from criticism from the periodontists by showing that you “sounded the bone” and established your safe removal of soft tissue while preserving the biologic width.
Par excellance!!
Bob
Glenn van AsSpectatorBob you are too kind. I have seen enough cases doing this to know what to show for those who might care to criticize. You know what I noticed. THose that are the most vocal critics rarely if ever post any pics themselves.
I have learned that from other forums. In fact many will find minor things about a case and I think that is fine because that is how I learn how to improve my cases and lord knows we all can improve.
To be honest, I was pretty happy with how this worked out and he came in the other day and the temps looked far better than his old teeth.
He was happy as well with the smile……….
here it is on day one.
Glenn
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