Get the Smile You’ve Always Wanted
The most important thing about somebody’s smile is to ask them, “What do you like about it? What do you not like about it?” And then, when you find that out, you address that. You address those concerns, whatever they might be. Sometimes it’s just a matter of, frankly, patients don’t… They like how their teeth look, other than the color, and whitening is the easiest form of cosmetic dentistry there is. We have, you know, all methods here in the office, and we enjoy them. Zoom is a great thing, it is a great product, it helps patients do that. We have multiple patients that, basically, it’s like clockwork. Every six months or every year, they’re in for their Zoom. That’s great, and that’s an awesome thing.
Now, as far as the more complicated things. They’re not that complicated, and that’s the thing that we try to let our patients know is that improving and enhancing your smile is not something that is overcomplicated and overly difficult. A lot of it is just, again, finding out what they would like their teeth to look like, what they don’t like, what they do like, and emphasizing the positives and minimizing any negatives. The thing that, when it comes to our more veneer type cases, you know, the Lumineers type cases, whatever you want to call them. Just the porcelain facing is basically, we take a lot of pictures so that we can communicate with the laboratory. We have something we call a Smile Catalog where patients, in essence, can say, “Oh, I like this about the teeth. I don’t like this about the teeth.” And they can kind of pick and choose how they go about it. I know that one day, I had a patient who loved a certain celebrity’s smile and brought a picture and said, “I want my teeth to look like that.” And so, that’s something we can communicate to the laboratory.
If you do these cases right, you know how to do them, which we do and I’ve been trained to do that it’s very… They’re quite boring, frankly, because they turn out great and there aren’t any problems and that’s what we like, consistency and boring. Cosmetics is an amazing thing and it could go… It’s an amazing thing and, frankly, what we do just in fillings. Taking out the old mercury, silver, nasty things and putting in the things that look like teeth. That’s cosmetic dentistry. Taking out old crowns that don’t look natural and putting in nice porcelain crowns that look like teeth. That’s cosmetic dentistry. I mean, we do that every day. I love that. I mean, I don’t understand why some patients or some doctors, they don’t want their teeth to look like teeth. Isn’t that the whole point? Something that looks good, that functions well. That’s all it’s about, and we do that every day with all of our cosmetic things because anything we do in the office is, in essence, cosmetic if you look at it the right way and we do. We focus on that, trying to make it look right and function right is always the most important things.