Aesthetic Dentistry

00:00:06.206 --> 00:00:12.579 Cosmetic dentistry is often misunderstood by the general public. 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:15.682 I think a lot of people think of cosmetic dentistry has just been years. 00:00:15.749 --> 00:00:18.018 I graduated in 1991 from dental school, 00:00:18.252 --> 00:00:20.254 and at that time, we learned silver fillings, 00:00:20.554 --> 00:00:24.525 we learned gold crowns, we learned porcelain fused to gold crowns 00:00:24.591 --> 00:00:28.529 that were these old crowns that had black edges around it 00:00:28.595 --> 00:00:31.565 so that you see it when patients smile, some of these older crowns. 00:00:31.632 --> 00:00:35.202 Dentistry was really ugly back then. 00:00:35.469 --> 00:00:37.671 It really didn't take any consideration of aesthetics. 00:00:37.871 --> 00:00:38.972 When I got out 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:44.344 and I saw this whole revolution of cosmetic dentistry coming out, 00:00:44.416 --> 00:00:45.646 and it basically was... 00:00:45.712 --> 00:00:47.814 The backbone of it was this adhesive bonding. 00:00:47.881 --> 00:00:50.484 These new techniques that allowed us to… 00:00:51.385 --> 00:00:53.787 instead of drilling a big hole and packing a silver filling in, 00:00:53.854 --> 00:00:58.025 we were able to drill smaller holes and use bonded technology 00:00:58.358 --> 00:01:01.995 to use plastic filling to save more the tooth. 00:01:02.896 --> 00:01:06.033 All of a sudden, we were able to make the tooth look like a tooth. 00:01:06.099 --> 00:01:08.502 We could use tooth-colored filling materials. 00:01:10.170 --> 00:01:11.905 Cosmetic dentistry, to me, 00:01:12.039 --> 00:01:16.543 was this change from old-school dentistry to new school dentistry. 00:01:17.211 --> 00:01:19.046 Under the umbrella of cosmetic dentistry, 00:01:19.112 --> 00:01:22.583 I look at even back tooth fillings as cosmetic dentistry. 00:01:22.649 --> 00:01:23.784 I look at Invisalign, 00:01:23.851 --> 00:01:26.820 like winding and bringing the arch back to its original shape 00:01:26.887 --> 00:01:28.121 as cosmetic dentistry. 00:01:28.422 --> 00:01:31.592 Then, of course, veneers are a big part of cosmetic dentistry. 00:01:32.025 --> 00:01:33.627 But cosmetic dentistry... 00:01:34.960 --> 00:01:37.164 Now, when I go to the dental school, 00:01:37.231 --> 00:01:40.467 the kids mostly learn all the new adhesive materials. 00:01:40.667 --> 00:01:42.369 They learn a little bit about the old materials, 00:01:42.436 --> 00:01:44.771 but they basically have learned all the new stuff. 00:01:44.872 --> 00:01:46.640 For them, that's just dentistry. 00:01:47.875 --> 00:01:51.812 Now, cosmetic dentistry to them might be more like veneer-type dentistry. 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:53.547 But from my perspective, 00:01:54.014 --> 00:01:57.117 it was part of our revolution 00:01:57.184 --> 00:01:59.520 of looking at the teeth and trying to create… 00:02:00.020 --> 00:02:04.124 bringing the teeth back to where they were, what they look like, 00:02:04.191 --> 00:02:05.225 and doing two-colour fillings, 00:02:05.292 --> 00:02:08.161 and giving that patient a more aesthetic result. 00:02:08.480 --> 00:02:11.265 I do foresee in the future 00:02:11.465 --> 00:02:14.334 and we're heading there with artificial intelligence, 00:02:14.668 --> 00:02:17.404 is most of our crowns are handmade, 00:02:17.471 --> 00:02:19.373 and some of them are machine-made, 00:02:19.973 --> 00:02:24.845 but we're still able to identify a lot of these restorations in the mouth. 00:02:24.912 --> 00:02:26.010 We can see them. 00:02:26.079 --> 00:02:28.715 I do think that we're headed in a direction where… 00:02:29.783 --> 00:02:35.222 there will be an ability to create an exact replica of your tooth 00:02:35.656 --> 00:02:37.357 in whatever material we're going to do 00:02:37.424 --> 00:02:41.395 just through the sophistication of AI 00:02:41.461 --> 00:02:45.499 entering into digital fabrication and design. 00:02:47.367 --> 00:02:51.171 Cosmetic dentistry, that's how I look at cosmetic dentistry.