Two missing teeth, filled in by reshaping her own

This patient works as an air hostess. She was missing both upper lateral incisors, the teeth on either side of the front two, and her other teeth were crowded. She wanted something quick, and surgery-free.

We reshaped the teeth she had. Each canine was shaped to look like a lateral incisor, and each first premolar to look like a canine. Dentists call this re-contouring, or camouflage. Six composite laminates on the front teeth finished the shapes, and the row now reads as a full set.