A New Smile

Before

I think most of you who read this blog know my teeth story. I was about 8, riding a bike, popped a wheely. Came down off that bike and my mouth hit a brick sticking up out of the ground. Blood and pain like you cannot imagine. One tooth had fallen out. After several years of dentist treatment and abcesses..........it was one of those things I didn't really think about. But it has always bothered me that I didn't have a very pretty smile. Those two front teeth are not very attractive as you can tell from the above picture.

Fast forward to the past couple of years and they had started to bother me. I thought I wanted to have them pulled and implants put in.........very expensive to say the least. But after one consult with a dentist who could do that, he wouldn't. He said I should save the teeth. And that he could never make my two front teeth look right because of the way my gums were designed. I appreciated his honesty.

I found a dentist here in M'ville who could do the root canal on my right tooth. It was the right one that had a cyst/infection in it. So I had the root canal about a month ago and they packed it with medicine to get rid of the infection. The infection had also started to eat away at the bone up there. Thankfully I could see that starting to be reversed on the x-ray today. Today, they finished the root canal and then I headed to the other dentist who does veneers. The ones in the picture below are only temporary. But I am so happy to have a better smile!!!! And can I just say that I think my mouth was stuck about 10 different times for all the shots..............ya'll this was huge for me. I mean, who really likes to go to the dentist??? But when it comes down to work like this.....it takes alot of courage. Thank you God!!!!

After
So, what do you think??? Can you tell the difference?????