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Here’s one that came in on Weds. She was seen by a local dentist who is a CE junky, so he should know better. The labial surfaces, she says, have been reworked because they are so thick. The only thing he got right were the premolars because the buccal corridor needed widening.

So, I’m getting closer to funding the sign with flashing lights for my front lawn:
WE REPAIR $500 VENEERS Call our office – 856 546 0665
Fortunately for her, I only have to do the six anteriors to make her smile better. Unfortunately for her, those 6 are gonna cost her a bit more than she paid for 10. The wax-up is in Juan Olivier’s hands now.

She looks like Bogart when she tries to smile, her obicularis oris (muscle that controls the lips) is being stretched like a rubber band. The smile line and mid lines are both canted (he missed the fact that her interpupillary line is not parallel to the horizon, she’s got one eye about 1/2 inch lower than the other.

The lower antherior plane isn’t parallel either. He was given ample opportunity to make things right, so now, for the cost of 10 veneers, perhaps he’ll take some training. Yes, that’s a nice little glob of cement distal to 12, that in all the time he spent trying to make her happy, he obviously never saw. And how about the natural appearance of 3/8″ thick porcleain! Look at the edge detail! The incisal bevel is in the wrong direction, so as to make those suckers look even thicker.

So when Cindy McKane asked what we thought about Lumineers on Sunday, on the CC board, this is what I see on a weekly basis for second opinions, and this, is what I read: “We got our first case back (free offer for an office member for 6 lumineers) and we totally rejected it. The shade and contours were very nice, but the gingival margins sucked so bad that is was a precursor to periodontal disease. They were jagged, fractured, uneven, overhung and short of the gingiva.

When we called, they refused to give me the name of the tech, stating that is not allowed. We were not even permitted to personally speak to the tech. We are to send them back and they will hopefully redo them but there is no guarantee which tech we will get.

I am very disappointed, especially since there is so much hype. The examples you see at the courses show nice smooth margins. These were a disaster. No way a patient, even a dental professional, could keep these hygienic.

Suzanne ”

I can’t be positive that these pictures are Lumineers, since I didn’t write the check to the lab, however, the patient told me that Lumineers are what she was told she was getting, by a dentist who touted his cosmetic expertise.

What makes this case even simpler is the anterior open bite.- I have launched a new website that talks about these and other issues at: www.theedgesmiles.com . Let me know what you think about what I’ve posted there.