Putting Your Best Patient's Care First

This is the chart of a patient that has been under my care for FORTY YEARS. In all of that time, I repaired 6 teeth and not one of them is a crown despite the fact that in most dental offices , four of the teeth would have been suggested for crowns and yet my patient has none.
You might be thinking that  this long term patient is a one of a kind patient with fabulous teeth...And you would not be wrong. But I can show you many treatment charts where I have fixed 20 teeth for a patient and the patients have ALL OF THE TEETH that they started with me with only 1 or 2 crowns in 30 years.

How is this possible? Because I don't place many crowns on live teeth (no root canals) for patients who are 20,30 or 40 years old. Crowns must be delayed for as long as possible if a patient wants to keep all of their teeth for a lifetime. Sometime less is more.