Case Study: Tooth Veneers

One Monday morning, a 50 year old bloke walked into our practice saying his wife thought his smile looked chipped and that he was looking older...

Case Study: Pit & Fissure Tooth Decay

Preventive Care detects early decay in the natural pits & grooves of all teeth. These early decay lesions will grow into larger cavities...

Case Study: Deep Fissures Cause Extensive Tooth Decay in Young Mouths

All chewing teeth ( molars ), develop a fissures pattern that gets packed with sticky food. These fissures are a very high risk and must be...

Case Study: Extensive Tooth Decay In A Young Child

Kids teeth are precious and can get decayed very quickly. Is dental decay preventable? Yes. Preventive Dental Care detects tiny cavities before it...

Case Study: Rapidly spreading decay in Teenage molars

No one likes to go to the dentist, specially when they are in pain. Therefore, Preventive Dental Treatment is the best solution, and it must start...

Case Study: Root Canal treatment in a 9 year old

Is Root Canal treatment really preventable? Yes, Preventive Care detects tiny cavities before they push through the outer enamel and seals off the...

Case Study: Fill the large and small cavities promptly

Eli did not notice the advanced decay in the last molar. This would have become an abscessed tooth in a few months causing significant pain and...

Case Study: Multiple cavities in adjacent teeth

Dental decay is a bacterial infection and this spreads from tooth to tooth. The one with the largest cavity, becomes painful and patients usually...

Case Study: Leaking amalgam fillings – Why fix what’s not busted?

At Caring 4 Smiles, every new patient is put through a risk evaluation to detect growing issues that are not urgent now. This comprehensive...

Case Study: Replacing old amalgam fillings and catch early decay

For over 100 years, dentists have been placing dental amalgam in patient’s teeth, because there was nothing better available to the...

Case Study: Don’t ignore a food trap. It can be very expensive

Inspect old amalgams regularly. Old amalgams break down and result in food entrapment. In this case, Thomas had constant food traps on either side...

Case Study: Upper wisdom tooth traps food causing extensive decay

An upper wisdom tooth caused a food trap. End result, the adjacent tooth was heavily decayed. Preventive Care would have picked this up decades ago....

Case Study: White Fillings before & after

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Case Study: Toothbrush abrasion – significant damage

Often we see patients with excellent teeth become over-zealous with their toothbrush. Their intention to keep their teeth sparkling leads them to...

Case Study: Enhanced Vision Root Canal Treatment

In the past era of Dentistry, every general dentist was able to perform Root Canal treatment. This is very much like Rugby at the school level. All...

Case Study: What is Gum disease?

Gum disease is an inflamed and infected condition of the gums and tissues around your teeth. It creeps up on most people and if not recognized and...

Case Study: A child knocks out a front tooth at age 3

Sometimes the very worst happens. A new mum sees her child trip, fall and knock out a front tooth. A hug is hardly enough to console the...

Case Study: Space Maintainers for children

What is a Space Maintainer? Every tooth has a designated space and size in the mouth and baby teeth preserve this space. If however, the baby tooth...

Case Study: Space Maintainers & stainless steel crowns

Unfortunately, Aleisha developed extensive decay and lost a few teeth. Mum was visibly concerned about the new teeth coming through. Is this what...

Case Study: Closing the gap with a labial frenectomy

Often young children develop a wide gap between their upper front teeth. Anecdotally, the gap has closed with development of the adult teeth....

Case Study: Mouth breathing causes jaw deformity

Young children who suffer from periodic coughs and colds often turn into mouth breathers. They are easily identified by visiting their room at night...

Case Study: Lower jaw growth disproportionate to upper

During the growth and development of a child, it is most essential that professional monitoring and record keeping is strict. Various growth spurts...

Case Study: Thumb sucking causes jaw deformity

Young children carry over ‘thumb sucking’ and ‘tongue thrusting’ into their 6th – 8 year age. Whilst this may be a security issue, the resultant...

Case Study: Closing the Gap – Composite Veneers

Sometimes, an opportunity in childhood is missed, and the gap (called a diastema) remains into adult life. With Time, the gap increases in size and...

Case Study: Porcelain Veneers – E.Max porcelain

Aimee came in with severe sensitivity on her 4 front teeth. In addition, these teeth were irregular and uneven. Considerable enamel loss had...

Case Study: Metal Free (all ceramic) Dental Crown

A metal free crown is a beautiful way to rebuild a broken down tooth. Ceramics available today restore the dazzle in your Smile. Crowns are...

Case Study: Gold crowns or overlays are the most durable of all restorations

Often (molar) teeth fracture or have large fillings. An ideal material is gold and this protects the underlying tooth from fracture. Gold...

Case Study: Re-bonding a loose front tooth back into the mouth for the long term

Colin came in with a front tooth dropping from its socket. It caused him alarm as it was now precariously close to falling out. He could not afford...

Case Study: Missing Front tooth

What did Caring 4 Smiles do for Bronwyn? We presented a plan to reduce the large space with veneers and place an implant in the front aesthetic...

Case Study: A missing tooth in the ‘Smile’ zone

What did Caring 4 Smiles do for Gemma? Gemma had several old amalgam fillings and crumbling teeth. She was also concerned about the tooth she had...

Case Study: Clenching & Grinding – the first tooth breakdown

Often the first signs of breakdown are a chipped tooth. Sometimes catastrophe strikes and the entire tooth fractures off as the proverbial last...

Case Study: The consequences of Clenching & Grinding teeth

Many individuals don’t notice that they clench or grind their teeth during the day and / or night. This can be a result of work or other stress....

Case Study: A Crumbling Dentition – the last few standing

The mouth can take a significant amount of insult resulting in chipping and fracture of teeth. Some patients who don’t realize the ongoing disease,...

Case Study: Full mouth rejuvenation plan

Melanie’s front teeth made her self conscious so she just would not smile. We undertook a full mouth rejuvenation plan. What did Caring 4 Smiles do...

Case Study: Removable Partial Dentures

Acrylic Partial Denture replacing a few Upper Teeth Cast Partial Denture Cast Framework Partial Denture Losing teeth is definitely a setback, but in...

Case Study: Partial Denture With Mini Dental Implants

Mini Implants are made from titanium, invented several years ago to stabilize dentures. Caring 4 Smiles has completed a considerable body of work to...

Case Study: A lower partial denture with mini implants

Marian – Age 48 Dental condition: Lower 8 molars abscessed and extremely complex to restore. A decision was made to extract them and retain the...

Case Study: Loose & Floppy Dentures – Mini Dental Implants

Robert, a victim of total tooth loss was fitted with complete upper and lower dentures. These dentures flopped around and caused him considerable...

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