When I started coming about two and a half years ago, I had a lot of different dental issues going on. Some of it was because of grinding, some of it was because of long-term acid reflux, but really what was going on with my teeth, they were ground down quite a bit. They were also starting to chip.
I was starting to develop kind of fractures in teeth. Thankfully roots and everything were good, but I needed a lot of work done to actually be able to rebuild kind of my mouth from the ground up. So things weren't aligning anymore, and again, things were starting to crack and just get brutal.
Really what I ended up needing was somewhat of a full mouth kind of restoration, which involved crowning every tooth that I've got. So I've got 28 crowns. One of the things I remember specifically from Dr. Zandstra as we started is she's like, I look at these as 28 art projects, and it really was that special from tooth to tooth to tooth, how she kind of adjusted and went along the way and made everything look really perfect, but they still look like my teeth.
They still look like what would have naturally been me, and that really took a long time from coloring to shape to really tailor making kind of everything for me. And that not only made for a great looking end result, my bite's perfect now. I've never experienced anything like this.
So eating is different and a lot easier, and maybe especially I noticed more from my wife. She's like, you love to smile again, and that, I think that was the thing that capped it all off and made it really great, having her just notice the fact that I smile a lot more now because I had stopped smiling for quite a long time, and she's like, you just enjoy smiling again, and it's great.
