Dental Care With Your Best Interest in Mind

Too often and for too many dentists, the pursuit of making money is the guiding light when patient's are treated.  The first goal of medicine and dentistry is 'Do No Harm' which translates into, "Be careful how much tooth structure is removed during treatment.  The case that I am showing you could have been treated by severely cutting teeth down and the placement of crowns and while the patient's smile would have looked great, the long term likelihood of keeping the four front teeth was in great jeopardy.

So what was THE BEST way to treat this patient with severely misaligned teeth?  I sent this almost 40 year old man to Dr. Brendan Cooney for Invisilign Therapy (Clear braces or retainers) and at the end of 15 months, I simply bonded resin to make the patient's worn teeth look perfect.

Other than the pursuit of dollars, I can think of no good reason to destroy this patient's teeth by reducing the teeth to nothing. We moved the teeth and then we bonded resin onto the teeth and removed no tooth  structure in the process.

What do you think?