in addition to my cleaning, i planned to have a porcelain front on one of my teeth replaced. its been there since i was eight, no one in my family can remember why its even there at all, but after fifteen years, it needs some love. plus i've been trying to whiten my teeth recently and guess what? crest whitestrips do no good for dental prosthetics. so then i ended up looking like this.
note the subtle discoloration? let me tell you, it is a total DON'T for bold lip looks, which just so happen to be my current obsession.
turns out i can't just get a new "front" - i need a whole new tooth (ok, a veneer, but to me, that means fake teeth). AND thanks to some sweet wave surfing in hawaii at age 8, my two front teeth are chipped to the point they're nearly transparent so turns out i need new teeth for those too. and to top it all off, can't just replace those three, gotta get the fourth - and if i had listened to the dentist, just go for the whole top row.
i'm currently pleased with my four temporary fake teeth and think that only the greatest streak of vanity would lead me to correct the rest of my otherwise mildly-imperfect mouth, especially at $1,800 per tooth. here's hoping insurance covers some of that exorbitant price!
although it turns out that stila creator jeanine lobell and i share the same dentist. how's that for a six-degrees-of-great-women-in-beauty?
but my four hours at the dentist leads me to the great existential question - cosmetic dentistry: do or don't?
Definitely a do....why not? fake teeth are the new black!
ReplyDeleteI also have a yellowish teeth for a lot of years now. Sometimes, I get so shy smiling and talking in front of other people because they might laugh at me with my yellow teeth. Then, my friend introduced me to the dentists office at Charleston, SC. Dentist (Charleston, SC-based) did a very good job in making my teeth whiter than ever. And I can now smile confidently because of my pearly white teeth!
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