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Crown/Veneer or Braces or both??

  • 22-02-2011 1:03pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 132 ✭✭


    Just looking for some general opinions -

    At a child/teenager, I wore braces for years. My orthodontist said that he had great trouble moving my teeth and when I was about 19 he decided that they were straight enough at the front and took the braces off. I wore my retainer for a while and the gradually stopped wearing it. My teeth stayed almost perfectly in place until three years ago when I had to have my gums slit and my wisdom teeth removed as they were growing sideways. Now my teeth are back crooked again. I keep putting it on the long finger but I'm getting married at the end of this year and really want them sorted.

    My top jaw is the one that bothers me the most - there are two teeth rotated at the front (one either side of my two front teeth). However, one of those teeth had a root canal plus internal bleaching etc. It is very slightly discoloured and I don't want to pay a fortune for braces to straighten it and then find out I have to pay another fortune for a crown or veneer so it matches my other teeth when they've been whitened. Could I just go for a crown/veneer on both these two teeth which would kill two birds with one stone, i.e. match the colour to my other teeth when whitened and give them the appearance of being in line? I'd rather pay to have it sorted properly but, at the same time, I don't want to waste money if there is a simply way to fix it as I've a wedding to pay for!

    Depending on money and if it still bothered me after getting the top jaw sorted, I was thinking about lingual braces for the front bottom teeth.

    Any opinions/experiences???


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 132 ✭✭duracell_bunny


    Attached are some photos which might help. They were taken on an iphone so the quality isn't the best.

    Edited to add - the left tooth is the one that had root canal and is discoloured.


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