I like to look at the whole smile to decide if polishing down the long tooth would improve esthetics or make both teeth look too short. A veneer is the longest lasting, most esthetic way to make a tooth longer if significant tooth is missing.
Procedure to correct longer tooth?
What is the best procedure when one of your top front tooth is longer than the other? My two top front teeth are in pretty good shape but my left one is slightly longer than the other.
2 answers to “Procedure to correct longer tooth?”
A: Sometimes the solution is fairly simple
There are two ways to make teeth the same length, shorten the longer one or lengthen the shorter one. The easiest is to shorten, simply contour and polish the longer one. This could be 5 minutes. To lengthen would likely require a veneer. The expense and time would be much more, but it... more
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