Angela was concerned about the missing tooth in the upper right of her mouth. She was also unhappy about the colours of her top front teeth generally and came to our Glasgow practice requesting some cosmetic dentistry to improve their appearance. Patients who want a smile makeover often request a variety of cosmetic treatments.
An old unsightly NHS porcelain crown, which you can see in these photographs, exacerbated her concerns.
After a half hour consultation with Dr Murphy in our Glasgow practice during which they discussed options such as a dental implant to replace her missing tooth, Angela decided to have a porcelain bridge fitted to eliminate the space. As you can find elsewhere on our website, there are several different kinds of dental bridges, some which attach to existing adjacent teeth, some which attache to titanium implants.
She also opted for some porcelain veneers and zirconium porcelain crowns on five other front teeth.
Matching veneers to the patient’s teeth
Our ceramist Alex attended Angela’s appointment, as he does for all such cosmetic dentistry cases to match his lab work to the shade of her teeth, selecting the appropriate colours and translucency of porcelain.
The space was eliminated, the missing tooth issue was resolved and the treatment took just two weeks.
Treatment costs were £2610 for two teeth on a porcelain bridge, two zirconium porcelain crowns and three minimum preparation porcelain veneers.
Angela has returned to her regular dentist and has been encouraged to have six monthly treatments with a dental hygienist to avoid future gum shrinkage around the porcelain margins.