Great transformation of old cleft palate bridge to a new beautiful smile.

This kind woman has a cleft palate and a bridge that was done decades ago. Despite having been done well, the bridge no longer looks great. There is gum recession and asymmetry as well as lackluster porcelain. It needed to be redone. Dr Estafan made the new bridge with more esthetic porcelain and also with pink porcelain at the gumline. This was a great way to keep the teeth from looking too long. Without pink porcelain to mimic the gums, the teeth would have looked very long (to compensate for the gum receding). Although this treatment of a cleft palate (combined with a cleft palate obturator) falls under the category of Maxillofacial Prosthodontics, there is no reason it can't also be beautiful, like more conventional Cosmetic Dentistry and Esthetic Dentistry treatments using porcelain veneers and porcelain crowns. A bridge like this needs a metal substructure in order to give it the proper strength and durability. An all ceramic bridge may have looked just as good, but would not last as long. Can you tell there is metal under that gorgeous porcelain? Dr. Estafan managed to create a beautiful cosmetic result giving her a new reason to smile bigger and more often.