- Welcome to another Smile of the Week.
This smile has something for everyone.
Look at the before here.
We're gonna use Invisalign,
we're gonna use implants,
and finish this all off with
a full mouth cosmetic makeover
including veneers and crowns.
I'm gonna show ya how we got it done.
It's gonna be pretty cool.
Make sure ya stick around.
You're gonna see some
really neat technology,
maybe stuff that you didn't know.
It might help you make a better decision
when you go to a dentist.
So stick around, enjoy!
What's up guys, this is Doctor
O from Innovative Dental.
Thank you so much for watchin'
this Smile of the Week video.
I'm gonna showcase this gentleman's smile.
He came all the way from Chicago
to Springfield, Missouri,
and trusted us to help
him out with his smile.
So if you'll look at the before photo,
you know, not terrible.
Just had a bite that
was, had a nice underbite
and I know that there might be some people
on the channel there that might go,
"I can relate, I have an
underbite or overbite."
If you wouldn't mind, put in
the comments section below
kinda what kind of bite
issues you might have
and I'll try to answer those questions
and give you some feedback.
But this gentleman had an underbite
and so because of that it
was gonna be a real challenge
to snap a finger and quickly
give him a nice lookin' smile
and give him veneers and crowns
and things that could lighten things up
and make him really happy with
the way that he could smile
after we were done.
So he also had the problem
of an infected tooth
and he broke off a premolar
and it was infected.
Here's a good x-ray of that
so you can see what that
infection looked like in the bone.
And I'm gonna show you
how we took that out
and replaced it with a nice implant
and we're able to use that
as part of our smile makeover
when we restore the teeth
with all the crowns and the veneers.
So that'll be something you get to see.
While I'm thinkin' of it,
if you ever see somethin' that
you're pretty excited about
and you're learning
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subscribe if you haven't already?
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It helps more and more
people see and learn
what the latest in dentistry is.
That's what this channel
wants to be about.
That's what this smile makeover is about.
So I want to dive right back into that.
So let's go ahead and
start with the first step.
So he comes to our office from Chicago,
flies on in, and we do a first evaluation
where we take a 3D x-ray.
This is where we assess the bone quality
and the size of the
infection of that premolar.
We take a look at the roots
and where they're angled
and make sure there's not
anything that we're missing
from the photos that we did
in our virtual consultation.
So by the way, that's
how everything starts
for our traveling patients.
They do a virtual consultation with us,
we use technology to talk to each other
and look at their photos and x-rays
and then give an initial layout
of what we might be able to do for you.
So go to this, the link below.
It will have yoursmiledestination.com.
That's how you can get in
touch with us to do a smile.
So I now I've kind of
interjected a few things.
Sorry, I just didn't want to forget them.
Let's get back to the smile.
So we take a 3D x-ray.
Then we also take a intra-oral
image here with our 3D,
this is called a prime
scan, a Seric prime scan.
It's capable of giving us a full model
of the patient's current
position of their teeth
and allows us to create what's called a,
basically a digital guide from this.
I'm gonna show you how we do that.
But this digital
impression is then imported
into our 3D software and
now you can see that here.
It's pretty phenomenal
what we're able to do
with that 3D impression.
That allows us to
visualize the missing tooth
and plan the patient's future tooth.
So that's really powerful
'cause we're not just placing an implant.
We're really trying to
provide a patient a tooth.
And so by merging these
two pieces of information,
the 3D x-ray and an intra-oral scan,
we're now able to give
a very detailed plan
for the exact placement of that implant.
That's what's so exciting
about guided implants
and it played a big role in this process.
So we took the tooth
out, placed the implant.
It's gotta heal so while it's healing
we were smart with our time.
So that's one thing that
good treatment planning
will do for you as a patient.
It'll help utilize your time really well
and make sure that you get
to the smile you want quickly
and not meander along the way
and have some things that added
time that you didn't expect.
So while he was letting that implant heal,
we did Invisalign.
And what's really cool
is that a lot of people,
a lot of dentists even,
that aren't super-experienced
with Invisalign
might say this was not a
treatment that you could do
with Invisalign, and you actually can.
So Invisalign with Propel
which is a technology that
I'll link to a video of
me doing Propel on myself
when I did Invisalign,
but it kind of explains that process
and how it benefits tooth movement.
But we're able to take an adult
and move their teeth much
like you would expect a child.
And so now we get this
really cool result in adults
and it's kinda mind blowing.
We're able to take his lower teeth,
and I'm gonna show you his Invisalign,
what's called a clincheck here.
This clincheck is the
design of how these teeth
are supposed to move with the trays
and you can see how we
pull those lower teeth back
into the right position.
So now when he chews
he's got the correct overbite and overjet.
That's super-critical
because if we didn't have
that correct overbite and overjet
there's no way that we
could get those teeth
to be the right length.
So therein lies a lot of the problems.
We have people coming in that
want a smile transformation
but we can't just quickly
give them what they want
without either being really
aggressive to their teeth,
which I feel like in my opinion is wrong.
It's not the best treatment for people,
especially if we can do
something that is more healthy
and that's move the teeth first.
So in this scenario we
move the teeth first,
works out really well
'cause that only took us
about seven months.
So six, seven month, we
get the bite healthy.
Then finally, is the fun day
that we get to transform the smile.
So now that we moved the teeth back
we're able in one final visit
when he comes back to our office
to do the full-mouth restoration
with crowns, veneers,
and an implant.
And believe it or not, this
is all restored, one day,
in under about seven hours.
We work on the patient
for about an hour and 1/2
at the beginning.
We took special 3D images
with this prime scan
and you can see these images here.
And then we used this software,
very powerful software,
to design his smile.
Here you can see the upper and lower teeth
on top of each other.
You can see how we can design the midline
to work out really well together.
And so this is just really cool.
We're able to do all of this predictably.
Then we have five milling machines,
mill all these restorations,
bond them in before the
patient even leaves.
So he gets to fly back to
Chicago with a brand new smile.
Here you can even see,
and I'll show that here, this implant.
Let me remove the model
so you can appreciate
kinda what that implant
looks like, implant crown.
So after that implant's healed
this implant crown, what's
really neat about these
is this is what's called a
screw-retained implant crown.
And a screw-retained implant crown
allows us to not have multiple pieces.
Just one piece.
It also gives a little bit
better health to the gums
because we don't have to
have what's called a margin
between an abutment and a crown.
Basically the abutment
and crown are put together
into one solid piece
and so that's why you see
this here as one solid piece.
It has a screw access.
We fill that with a little bit
of Teflon tape and then we,
which is just something to keep you from
filling over to the screw,
and then put in some composite
or tooth-colored filling
to make that all disappear.
So that hole, you couldn't
even tell it's there.
So hopefully you enjoyed that.
I wanted ya to kind of take ya through
how we used a Invisalign
to correct a bite,
an implant to restore a
missing damaged tooth,
and then finally the icing on the cake
is the full smile transformation.
Here's the before and here's the after.
You can kinda see how dramatic that is.
There's a lot that went on there
but obviously in a seven month time period
that's pretty amazing that we can do that.
Technology is awesome.
If there's some questions you have
about how technology
could better dentistry
and you have some questions
about maybe this treatment,
put those questions in
the comment section below.
I do try to read each and every one
and provide good feedback
that way this channel
keeps providing great value
to those who watch.
So if you've watched to
now I really appreciate it.
It's been awesome sharing
this Smile of the Week.
I'll come back soon with another one
and maybe some other good
stuff that's going on
at our property.
So our dental office,
if you want to check some of those videos
I'm gonna link to the
playlist up here somewhere.
That will be the playlist
that you can watch how we're,
our vision for how we
want to transform the way
people view going to the dentist.
We're building a really
exciting practice here
at Springfield that is just unique
and it's designed to really make an impact
and change patients' and the team's view
of either being in a dental office,
what is should look and
feel like and smell like
and feel like.
So that's really important to us.
And then it's also gonna
change the way I think a team
feels about being inside of
dental office environment.
So pretty exciting stuff.
Can't wait to see that
finally come to life
and share it all with you.
So definitely subscribe to the channel.
Click on that playlist
so you can kinda keep
up with that progress.
But hopefully this was great.
Thanks for stickin' around.
You guys have an awesome week ahead
and it's been real good, you know?
I've had a good time.
So keep smilin', it
looks good you, cha-cha!
