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Dr. Goodman discusses a smile's effect on confidence. His customized approach to dentistry makes his smile makeovers so effective. A smile makeover can combine any number of procedures including porcelain veneers and teeth whitening.
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The importance of a smile...It's the first thing that people notice from
each other. Studies have shown that when people meet each other one of the
very first things that they notice is someone's smile. So it says a lot
about that person, about their confidence and self-esteem. And usually
people that smile are viewed as friendlier. So it's an important part of
our personality. So then we have to discuss what are the exact needs to
make that work. Is it going to take veneers? Does it take crowns? Is it
a combination of both things? Veneers and crowns are both made of
porcelain so the material is the same. A veneer is a very conservative
procedure, where we do remove some of the enamel. It's done in a very
conservative way to try to preserve as much tooth structure as possible.
Crowns are used where we have decay, cracks; teeth that are broken that
require something more substantial to hold out long term. A lot of times
when we have to change someone's bite, in particular the vertical height of
their bite, we have to do a full mouth, because there's no way to achieve
that by doing one section. You have to completely change and open up a
bite. So we take it from a situation where they've ground off so much of
their teeth that all their teeth are really, really short little stumps.
We have to open that back up so that we can lengthen and make the teeth
longer and more natural looking.
