Full Mouth Rehabilitation

    At Dental Care on Golf Links, we strive to offer the best dentistry in a calm and comfortable environment. For optimal results that not only look and feel fantastic, but are durable and long-lasting, we often use the process described here. Whether we are altering the appearance of your front teeth with veneers, or rehabilitating your smile after years of tooth wear and/or tooth loss, this process doesn’t vary much:

    1. Diagnostic models/photos: We take impressions of your upper and lower teeth, models are poured and mounted on an articulator. These models are then evaluated by both the dentist and a lab technician. A series of photographs are also taken during this appointment and are evaluated to help position the teeth ideally for optimal aesthetic effect.
    2. Diagnostic wax-up: A lab tech does a wax up or “mock-up” to create the desired outcome. This work helps us to:
      • Determine if preliminary treatment like orthodontics is necessary before we work on restoring your teeth.
      • Test-drive the appearance of the proposed treatment in your mouth before moving forward with your treatment.
      • Create a model from which we can fabricate temporary crowns/veneers
    3. Preparation and temporization: Your new teeth are prepared and you will wear temporary crowns/veneers for a period before we bond in the final restorations. This allows us not only to test-drive and ensure you are happy with the appearance of your smile, but also to know that the teeth are well-designed to fit and function in your mouth. In this way, we avoid future complications such as chipping and fracturing of the final restorations.
    4. We try your final restorations in your mouth, and evaluate them for proper fit and desired esthetic outcome. Finally we bond them into place, and finish your treatment.