Full-Mouth Reconstruction

I've had patients who've come in and said, hey, I'm moving or I'm changing dentists and I just want you to check to make sure that everything they've done in the past is good. And dentistry has changed a lot over time. So a lot of the dentistry might've been done 20 or 30 years ago.

And then when you look, you can say, well, that tooth, that could be better. And that tooth could be better, or it's worn out or it's just, or it's starting to fail now, you know. But I've had a number of patients that they came to me and said, could you just check this out? I'm having difficulty with caught food or my gum's always swollen around this particular tooth.

And when you look, it's been done by the same dentist over and over year after year, 20, 30 years, or maybe even 40 years. And so as you start to do that, just tooth by tooth dentistry, you're just dealing with the single solution for that single spot. And you're not looking holistically and coming back out and saying, if I do something here, what does that do to this tooth? So that's when we start looking full mouth.

They call it a full mouth reconstruction or restoration. And we've had to do that before. Like, I can't just do something here because it's gonna affect something over here.

And that's when we have to zoom out and say, okay, this is where we're treating the entire thing. Maybe it's the bite, maybe it's shifted teeth, or maybe it's something orthodontically that they don't wanna do. They don't wanna do two years of orthodontics in order to get a better bite.

And this is something that we're now starting to touch every tooth. I love them, they're a challenge and they're a big life changer. So people can walk in with a lot of problems.

It could be aesthetics, it could be function, it could be longevity or comfort. Those are the big four. And I just ask them, which one are you looking for? Because if we're gonna touch every tooth, I wanna make sure that we nail your expectations.

So if you want comfort, longevity, aesthetics or function, I wanna make sure that your number one priority is my number one priority. I've had people say, it's just gotta be comfortable. It's gotta be comfortable while we work.

It's gotta be comfortable when we're done. I said, great, we can do that. Or one person, she said, it's whole aesthetics.

I said, great, I can do that. Yeah, it makes a huge difference on people's lifestyles when they can eat whatever they want, not get food stuck there. Their gums feel better.

They don't have nagging sensation that something's not quite right. We found some crowns that have nickel in them. And if you've ever had jewelry that kind of discolored you or got you swollen or irritated there, that's the same material, nickel, in that jewelry.

And it's in our crown sometimes. So we've been able to swap them over to a fully porcelain crown and it's better. And for someone, that was all of her teeth.

And we did that and her gums responded beautifully and she's more comfortable. And by the way, it looks great. So yeah, it's a great solution.