Two days at the dentist is enough to make you never want to see one again, except now I have a million dollar smile – or rather a $20,000 smile – and so I’m happy I went. I didn’t have my teeth done because I wanted whiter teeth – I had chronic tonsillitis as a child and a doctor for a father so I had more than the usual dosages of Tetracycline and as a results my teeth were permanently discolored and weakened.
The weird thing about the initial studies they did on teeth damage from Tetracycline was that they couldn’t get what was happening to children to reproduce itself in lab studies because they were testing on rats. And rats’ teeth continuously grow, unlike humans (one of the reasons rats are always gnawing is to keep their teeth filed almost like fingernails). It took researchers a while to figure that one out.
In the meantime, as I said I was part of the first tests with bonding because I was used as a model by an expert witness in the case defending American Cynamid 25 years ago – the dentist actually painted porcelain onto the tops of my teeth. Eventually they started wearing around the edges and cracking on my front top teeth – so I had my tops replaced with veneers at San Francisco State Dental school 15 years ago. But after cracks, wearing, partial bonding on three teeth, among other issues from the old bonding and older veneers, I finally bit the bullet and had my entire mouth redone, which included two partial crowns, cutting of gums on one tooth and lots of other maneuvering not to mention 19 veneers and WALA – a Hollywood smile.
When I visited Croatia last summer a man told me he was glad to see that I didn’t have white, perfect, American teeth. So make that a $20,000, Hollywood, American smile I got going now.
Before:
After:
wow. what a difference two days makes! fabulous.
yeah – not bad huh?