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Is it a shine-through of the underlying tooth and/or cement that you see through the veneers and crowns? If so, cosmetic dentists often call this "headlights" and is a result of the technician making the porcelain too thin at those spots and/or the dentist not adequately preparing the tooth enough to hide the color of the root shining through.If this is the situation, and your veneers and crowns have already been bonded into place, you have two options. One, you can live with them. Or two, you can have them redone.Go back to your dentist, tell him you are unsatisfied with the results and if there is a solution to this you want to know what it is so that you can choose what you want him to do.
There are two types of ceramic tooth-colored restorations other than the porcelain fused to metal that you previously had. One is a zirconia crown, tooth colored, very strong. The other is EMax, which is my favorite. Emax can be bonded onto the tooth, which is better than cementing like you...
Never know until i can see area first hand. but, more importantly, today is the generation of implant dentistry. i would question the potential success/failure rate of the procedure vs an implant. implants placed correctly will last a lifetime, whereas crown lengthening and other tooth saving...
It's probably not that your tooth is too small, but there isn't enough strong tooth structure left for a tooth to retain a crown. However, there are a couple of ways around this that you and your dentist consider. One is doing a crown lengthening procedure, whereby your dentist or periodontist...
