Exciting to Think I'm Going to finally have a confident smile & family Portraits Made :) - Marietta, GA

Hi again!! If you want, they may be able to give you some pontic material that you can place in the tray to make it look like a full tooth. But looking at your photos, the chip really isn't that large and I think most people won't notice it unless you actually point it out! I've seen a lot of people that have had tooth extractions in the front and don't use a pontic and it looks fine. I have a bunch of additional dental work I need to have completed and I have to wait until after I am done also (bonding, shaping, 2 crowns and 2 separate bridges on the lowers in the back from missing molars.) When I was about 8 I hit my mouth and chipped my right front tooth. I didn't get it repaired with bonding until I was about 16. I eventually got a crown on that tooth and was happy with it. Fast forward to about 5 years ago and the tooth next to the damaged front tooth started to turn grey. The tooth was apparently damaged as well and has been slowly dying all of this time. This tooth is what started my entire journey. I went in to see if I could get a Veneer on the tooth so it wouldn't be discolored and he asked if I had ever considered straightening my teeth (I was never really bother by my crooked teeth - but now that they have straightened out some, wow they were really crooked! LOL) Right before I started my Invisalign treatment the dentist did a root canal on it and it was completely dry and dead inside. He wanted to wait until after the Invisalign treatment to put the new crown on it. I am going to replace the old crown as well when my treatment is over. The grey tooth was also one of my problem teeth as far as Invisalign... it was a crossbite tooth. :) The crossbite has now been corrected but the little grey tooth still sticks out. Oh well. I also noticed jagged little edges on a lot of my teeth from grinding etc over the years the more my teeth straightened out. I just keep reminding myself that after it's all said and done I will have a prettier smile. :)

Congrats on starting your treatment! I'm so happy you are getting to do something for you (like the rest of us, huh!! :)). I am looking forward to seeing you progress and see your smile change over the next many months! You should be on tray 6 now? How is it going? Looks like you got the hang of adding photos! :) I take pictures with every tray so I can have a view of the progress. Trying to figure out how to make those pics into a slide show video.