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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou know, this is really picky,
But as usual I cant help myself.
I was watching the Creepy Trump ad and noticed that Ivankas crowns or veneers are so grossly overbulked that they are incredibly unappealing and if I had inserted anterior restorations in a young ladys mouth which look like that, I would expect at the very least some very nasty letters from her, family, or perhaps even an attorney. What probably happened here is that she wanted her teeth done and refused to have any reduction of her natural teeth to make room for a proper or natural emergence profile from her gum AND CONCOMITANTLY she wanted the lightest shade possible, what we call a bleaching shade, and the combination of those two parameters caused a fairly grotesque look to the teeth.
If proper reduction were permitted, and I certainly understand why someone would not want to lose significant tooth structure, the veneers or crowns would appear to be more natural. Or if the shade had been less brilliant, the apparent distinction between those six front teeth and her posterior or back teeth would not be as great, and would not be so obvious. The effect is not so apparent on direct frontal view, but when she turns 3/4, it really is from my perspective a horrifying look. In the beginning in the 1980s when veneers came into being, occasionally a case would look like this if the laboratory technician did not fabricate thin enough veneers because he or she were not trained properly at that time. But there is no excuse now for that appearance Unless the patient has restricted the dentist from performing his or her task appropriately, or the dentist has no idea what here she is doing which is also quite possible.
Her fathers reconstruction, while horrifyingly white with terribly chosen hue and value for a man his age, is at least conforming to the surrounding tissue and properly proportioned, unlike the rest of him.
Parenthetically, you have no idea what its like to do dentistry on a terrible asshole. Im not talking about your average difficult person Im talking about people who are impossible. They say being a dentist is like trying to fix a Watch with somebody spitting on your fingers. Doing it on a horrible person is like being a Watchmaker with someone spitting on your fingers and hitting you in the head with a ballpeen hammer at the same time.
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,895 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)Now I understand why. Thank you.
-Laelth
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)I know nothing about dentistry, so this is fascinating. Thanks for posting.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)I think she's had a nose-job and a chin-implant too.
PCIntern
(25,347 posts)In the photo which you posted the teeth looked acceptable and I am certain that when she received them the dentist handed her a mirror and she looked straight ahead at them and in fact they look within bounds. But what people dont realize is that very often youre seen from off-center and in her case her upper jaw resembles that from the Alien movies where the ancillary jaws come out from between the mandibles and bites. Think Sigourney Weaver in the robot loader machine at the end of Aliens.
Yeah, thats terrible. Even for me.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)More natural and less waxen. Over the years I've seen some of my favorite actresses and musicians mutilate themselves. It's really sad.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Not the trump 'way'
livetohike
(22,084 posts)without the veneers. Just a really unfortunate genetic trait.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Like some of the other posters, I know zero about dentistry, so this is extremely interesting!