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Missing lateral incisors. Two treatment options help me out. high school.?
Question : Missing lateral incisors. Two treatment options help me out. high school.?
ok first of all im a sophomore in hgih school who just turned 16… So looks DO matter to me.
i am very self concious of my smile and it stings me that i used to be really outgoing before i got braces and my teeth fixed.
i have braces and my teeth were moved for two 1/2 years to get spaces for bridge/implants in future, but is not finished and was being done by a gneral dentist and im going to the most profesional orthodontist in my state now.
my choices are to move the teeth back together or continue my post treatment.
I want to move my teeth together and make my canines replace the insicors. then i want to get cosmetic solutions to make my canine look like incisors. what do they do to make it look like incisors? Do they slap on a porclain veneer? do they use composite bonding?
Or i can continue and get a invasglin tray with fake teeth until implants. But come on now who wants that? im a sophomroe and i cant imagine going through high school like this. i also feel that it will never ever match(colors) because in smiles they will mismatch in color. I feel like i ****ed my life over by making my teeth spread out with empty spaces on my smile.
I want some pros and cons. i want to know what i should do. People say implants but most likely dont really understand my situation. Its a later and LONG and TIMELY/COSTLY solution and in the end they sometimes dont look great. But ion the otherhand if i mvoe my teeth together i stil have natural teeth and i can just get porclain veneers/reshaping/compostie resin to make my smile look great. What to do? Will moving it back together affect my face structure/jaw? Do moving the teeth together look great too? Any pics will be welcome.
thanks ten poitns
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Best answer:
Answer by grandpa walleye
It will take time and cost more money to move your canines with their big roots back to place. To get the eye teeth to be smaller looking like a lateral incisor, will require a large amount of tooth to be removed so that a porcelain crown will be placed on it. Also your first bicuspids would have to be ground down to have crowns or veneers placed on them to make them look like canines. 4 teeth ground down. Unless you are in your twenties, the pulp chambers of the cuspids will be too large to safely remove the tooth structure needed to make them look like laterals. After all of this is done, it would still not look as nice as the implant solution. You will end up spending more money, take more time, have more risk to your other teeth, and still end up with not a nice end result. So if you decide to go this way, don’t say you were not warned.
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#2 written by Extractor 1 year ago
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#3 written by Painless 1 year ago
Your canines are the most important teeth in your mouth. They are where the rocking action of your lower mandible occurs. The first plan is the best make space for the laterals and replace them with implants. You are too young to be grinding away at four perfectly good teeth to replace two. Implants can be expensive but well worth the money for your age. There is something called a valplast partial which is thin lite and flexible and no metal hooks, till you are about you can use these19 or 20 years of age. Having the implants placed is a 6 month process for top teeth.
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Moving your canines forward to take the place of incisors will take some time because you would be moving all teeth forward, not just two. If you go with this method, will you need any teeth removed on the bottom? On the patients I witnessed go through this process, they and their parents liked the results. When it was time to shape the cuspids into laterals, it wasn’t done all at once, depending on how sensitive their teeth were. A small amount can be done over time to eliminate sensitivity and MOST people don’t even know what a lateral is supposed to look like! As far as your bicuspids looking like cuspids, they usually have a little point to them anyway so you probably won’t need anything done to them, unless they are flat shaped and it bothers you.
I would stay away from veneers…you will need to replace them someday because as you get older, the aging process causes the gums to pull away from the edge of the veneer and it’s unsightly. They shave away so much enamel for something that isn’t permanent. I would stick to re-shaping if possible. It’s a big decision and if you need to, get a 2nd professional opinion, they are usually free.