Veneer Correction. This time, she tested the result first.

Diagnosis

The existing veneers did not harmonise aesthetically with her face, lips, type and build. At the same time, her bite was not right: some teeth met too early or too hard, while other contacts were missing. This forced her lower jaw backwards into a constrained bite. On top of this came inflamed gums, marked sensitivity to hot and cold, and problems in the jaw joints and chewing muscles. It was clear that this was not just an aesthetic correction. Aesthetics and function had to be replanned together.

The Decision

For the patient, one thing was fundamentally different this time: the result was not decided over her head, but with her. First, we defined what needed to change. The existing tooth shapes looked too wide, too flat and too angular, altogether too masculine for her face, lips, type and build. The back teeth looked artificial, and the shapes did not sit naturally with one another. The shade was also too white and too opaque. It lacked translucency, subtle colour gradients, surface texture and the way natural teeth play with light. At the same time, the bite had to be replanned.

The new tooth shapes were not only meant to look different. They had to guide the lower jaw out of its constrained position, allow stable contacts and relieve the jaw joints and muscles. All of this was first designed, then made visible and finally transferred into her mouth as a prototype. The patient could see, speak, laugh and bite with it, and develop every step further with us while everything could still be changed. Only when aesthetics and function were right for her and for us did they become the definitive veneers.

Goal

A smile that looks finer, more feminine and more natural, with tooth shapes that suit her face, lips, type and build. Less width and hardness, more lightness, translucency, depth and natural surfaces. At the same time, the bite was to be reorganised: no constrained position of the lower jaw, stable contacts and relief for the jaw joints and chewing muscles. Aesthetics that look natural. Function that feels just as natural.

Our Approach

• Planning with The Facial Aesthetic Concept^©: tooth shape, length, proportions, shade and the play of light were redeveloped based on her face, lips, expression, type and build. The functional situation was considered at the same time.
• Real Face Preview: the new design became visible in her face before the existing veneers were removed or any definitive ceramics were made.
• Replanning function: the faulty contacts and the constrained position of the lower jaw were resolved. The aim was a bite in which the teeth work together evenly and the jaw joints and muscles are relieved.
• Test Drive: the planned result was transferred into her mouth as a prototype. The patient could speak, laugh and eat with it, and experience the new bite in everyday life.
• Follow-ups: tooth shapes, proportions, bite contacts and aesthetic details were refined further together, while everything could still be changed.
• Digital Transfer: only the aesthetically and functionally optimised situation was captured digitally and became the binding template for the dental technician.
• Definitive Veneers: the tested shape was transferred into individually layered ceramics, with natural translucency, colour gradients and surface texture instead of a uniformly white, opaque effect.

Result

The new veneers look finer, lighter and far more natural. Tooth shape, length and proportions suit her face, lips and build; translucency, colour gradients and surfaces give the teeth back the depth they lacked before.

At the same time, the bite was readjusted. The teeth now meet in a controlled way, and the lower jaw is no longer forced into its previous constrained position. And perhaps the most important difference from the first treatment: when the definitive veneers were placed, the patient already knew her new smile. She had seen it, worn it, tested it and helped shape it.

Treatment Time

Four weeks, including The Facial Aesthetic Concept^©, Test Drive and definitive restoration with veneers.

Please note

The treatment shown represents an individual case. Treatment plans and results vary depending on the initial findings.

What are Zaritzki Restorations?

Perfect is the goal. But it must not look perfect. That is the hardest brief in dentistry, and it is decided in three places.

No one should see it. A restoration must not be more regular than the rest of your teeth. Light, surface and translucency are modelled on what is already there, not on an ideal. A tooth has texture, tiny irregularities, its own way of refracting light. That is exactly what is recreated. This is why the ceramics are handmade in a master laboratory, and the shade is matched during a try-in before anything is permanently placed.

It should feel exactly as it did before. Your tongue knows every millimetre of your mouth and finds every edge. Contact points, bite guidance and transitions are therefore crafted so that nothing new feels new. The spaces between your teeth also stay the way you know them. Floss should glide through just as it always has.

Nothing should be taken away. We fight for every millimetre of your own tooth. Every tooth begins with the same question: how much is necessary, and how little is enough? An inlay, as long as an inlay will hold. A partial crown when the biting surface is lost. A crown only when the tooth needs protection all the way round. We work under magnifying loupes at five times magnification and special LED light, with instruments made for this scale, and with the time it takes. Preserving tooth structure takes longer than removing it. That is why it takes longer here.

And because a restoration must suit not only the tooth but the face, everything begins with The Facial Aesthetic Concept^©: the aesthetic goal is defined first, and bite guidance and load are built around it. What remains is the impression that nothing was done. Only that everything is right.

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