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PCIntern

(25,347 posts)
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 07:54 AM Jul 2020

You know, this is really picky,

But as usual I can’t help myself.

I was watching the Creepy Trump ad and noticed that Ivanka’s crowns or veneers are so grossly overbulked that they are incredibly unappealing and if I had inserted anterior restorations in a young lady‘s 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 it’s like to do dentistry on a terrible asshole. I’m not talking about your average difficult person I’m 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.

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You know, this is really picky, (Original Post) PCIntern Jul 2020 OP
You said a mouthful. NT mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 #1
Ha! NurseJackie Jul 2020 #2
Ivanka, despite her alleged "beauty," has always looked creepy to me. Laelth Jul 2020 #3
This is really interesting StarfishSaver Jul 2020 #4
Before/After Photos... NurseJackie Jul 2020 #5
Yes and the thing is, PCIntern Jul 2020 #8
As is so often the case, she looks better in the before IMO. Mike 03 Jul 2020 #10
' . . . or if the shade had been less brilliant . . . ' empedocles Jul 2020 #6
All of the Trumps' mouths look creepy to me with or livetohike Jul 2020 #7
Eric's "smile" looks like Beavis (or is it Butthead?) one of them. NurseJackie Jul 2020 #11
What a fascinating and entertaining post. Mike 03 Jul 2020 #9
I agree fascinating. dewsgirl Jul 2020 #12
Thanks for providing a totally new perspective for me! abqtommy Jul 2020 #13

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
3. Ivanka, despite her alleged "beauty," has always looked creepy to me.
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 08:10 AM
Jul 2020

Now I understand why. Thank you.



-Laelth

PCIntern

(25,347 posts)
8. Yes and the thing is,
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 08:21 AM
Jul 2020

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 don’t realize is that very often you’re 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, that’s terrible. Even for me.

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
10. As is so often the case, she looks better in the before IMO.
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 08:26 AM
Jul 2020

More natural and less waxen. Over the years I've seen some of my favorite actresses and musicians mutilate themselves. It's really sad.

livetohike

(22,084 posts)
7. All of the Trumps' mouths look creepy to me with or
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 08:14 AM
Jul 2020

without the veneers. Just a really unfortunate genetic trait.

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
9. What a fascinating and entertaining post.
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 08:23 AM
Jul 2020
it really is from my perspective a horrifying look




Like some of the other posters, I know zero about dentistry, so this is extremely interesting!
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