The dentistry you have received in the photos surely does not appear to be natural. If you want your smile to look truly natural, you will need to go to a dentist of higher quality. Seek out a dentist trained in cosmetic dentistry. Since so many general dentists claim to have cosmetic expertise, you will need to do some homework to find the dentist with the proper training.The best way to find the best dentist is to ask other dentist specialists. Call several periodontists, orthodontists, or oral surgeons to give you 3 recommendations. There will be multiple doctors that are mentioned twice. Have consultations with them. Not just one of them, all of them. You will be spending perhaps twice as much for the best dentists so choose wisely.
Call the dentist office immediately and ask them to stop the process at the lab. Hopefully the laboratory has not done too much. You should give your dentist a chance to address your concerns of how the temporaries appear. If the dentist gives the impression that he/she is relying on the laboratory to design something better, get a second opinion with a dentist who does cosmetics or prosthodontics more often. When a cosmetic dentist is designing your new smile, the temporaries are used as a first draft of the final product. Typically the locations, lengths, and outlines of each tooth are meticulously planned.Normal general dentists are not trained to do smile makeovers. Services this complex require significant advanced education. Once you approve the look of your temporaries, then the dentist will document the contours with impressions and photographs of them. The lab is then instructed to match what your doctor and you have co-created in the temps. A distant lab is NOT who should be designing your smile.
It can be very disappointing when you go through the treatment time and expense and not be happy with the final result. To be fair to the dentist, many times the anatomy of the dental arch limits what can be done with right side-left side symmetry issues. Sometimes the only way to achieve perfect symmetry is with the help of orthodontics and gum surgery. Hopefully all of the treatment options were discussed prior to treatment and all of the outcome limitations were noted then.Whether the veneers are old or new, it usually takes the same amount of work to replace them. It is important to realize that included within the dentist's cost is the substantial laboratory cost of the veneers. The dentist very rarely makes the porcelain veneer him/herself but rather commissions a ceramist to create it. The ceramist's fee is usually 30-50 percent of the total cost of the professional service.
It is common to have some limited sensitivity after a new crown is placed. Often this is just due to irritation from the cement used to hold the crown on. Usually the sensitivity is gone in a couple of days. If the new crowns are sensitive to sweet, there is definitely something wrong. My guess is that there is an incomplete seal. Have your dentist take an xray to check the seal on the margins.
Feldspathic porcelain veneers can be the most beautiful veneers. This porcelain type is free-hand stacked in many separate layers and then fired/fused in an oven. The resultant veneer can be customized with far greater detail than other dental porcelains. Veneers made from this porcelain are more costly to have fabricated and require much more expertise by the laboratory. This porcelain is very fragile on its own and requires a strong supporting structure to bond to for strength. When bonded to enamel, this porcelain is just as strong as the more commonly used porcelains such as E Max or Empress. The key is that the dentist cannot drill too much enamel away. When done properly, feldspathic veneers can represent the very finest in strength and esthetics possible. If too much tooth structure is missing, feldspathic veneers can break easily and are not a good choice.
