Re: What to ask during consultation? How do you if a dentist is good beforehand?

From: Roy Brown (roybrown_at_sympatico.caNADA)
Date: 01/19/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 01:17:47 -0500

Martin,

I've worked on cases similar to yours with a prosthodontist. Some of them had
some ortho to improve things for the prosthetics. If you only do the front 6 it
may look like you have no back teeth with your narrow arch and wide smile. You
might have to include the bicuspids. One way you can get a good idea what can be
achieved before dropping a lot of money is to have a diagnostic waxup. That will
give you and the practitioner a good idea of what might be achieved, and how. A
little work on the lowers might be required to optimize the uppers. Throw in a
touch of reshaping some of the gums and things could be looking good.

If I was waxing up the case, I would be making all the teeth a little wider
keeping them in proportion. Check your email for my first attempt at using a
photo software on your teeth. It is very rough sketch to give you some idea of
what I am talking about.

If you want to come to Toronto, I can highly recommend someone. If you want to
email me the names of the 3 prostho's out your way, I will ask the one here if
one of them has a better reputation. Stove Pipe that posts on this group is from
the Quebec area and he might know the local names a little better. 

-- 
Roy
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"Martin" <quixotle@yahooNOSPAM.com> wrote in message 
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|I have consultations lined up with three prosthodontists. I spoke to two
| orthodondists and they said they would need to split my pallet open and
| widen it, wire my jaw shut, I'd have to eat through a straw for six months
| and THEN I'd have to wear braces for three years. They didn't reccomend it,
| I agreed. But my friend got his front teeth capped, I don't know if it was
| caps or veneers (whats the difference?) and his teeth just look fake, also
| for about six months when he smiled you could clearly see the top edge of
| his teeth, they stuck out like a millimeter from his gum line, it took a
| long time for his gums to grow over and cover that up. is that normal?
| these are my teeth:
|
| http://www.geocities.com/quixotle/teeth.jpg
|
| My bottom teeth are very crowded and crooked but i don't care about them
| because no one ever sees them and i doubt if anything could really be done
| with them anyways. I want to get my top front teeth fixed, cosmetically.
| one of my front teeth is broken as you can see, the other has had three
| cracks in it for over ten years. I'd like to have those redone, reshaped,
| made smaller, and the two teeth on either side enlarged, I'd like my my
| front teeth to all be even, have proper shapes/sizes, and all have the
| same color. basically i want them to look normal.
|
| Generally speaking, would this require caps? veneers? I'd like to have
| an idea of what I probably need before I speak to the dentists, are there
| any questions I should ask? How can you find out if a dentist is great?
| (i don't want good, i want great, or preferably amazing), sure they can
| show you before and afters but that doesn't mean there aren't less
| successful before and afters that they're not showing me. Whats the best
| way to judge a dentist? I want the best of the best, these are my only
| teeth and its going to cost a fortune, might as well do it right.
|
| let me know, thanks
|
| ps. I'm in montreal, quebec if anyone has any reccomendations
|

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