You ready?
I was always content with my teeth,
until I got to dental school and started seeing the little imperfections.
My name's Anora and we are doing 10 veneers for my upper teeth.
And I'm very very excited.
A lot of people have gotten veneers.
Today, that's the thing to do.
I want my smile to be just more natural and not so strained.
They would change my smile, improve my confidence.
Veneers would definitely change my life.
When I was younger, I had gone through braces for two years.
Once I started to educate myself more in dental school I started noticing things
like my upper lip, for example, didn't have enough lip support.
My profile.
I would want just a smile that stands out.
Dr. Apa is world renowned.
He's the veneer master.
So the most important thing about doing this procedure is 100% understanding what the patient
wants to achieve, and then understanding how and if that's possible to achieve.
Porcelain veneers are a dental restoration.
Veneers are a wafer thin piece of porcelain that are bonded or glued
directly on top of the tooth.
Beauty is - and every aesthetic doctor should be working towards the same thing,
we are trying to create harmony in someone's face.
So Anora is a great case, her upper jaw is pushed back.
It's micrognathic, it's too small for her face.
So, for her, what we're trying to do is bring her top teeth out
to simulate her upper jaw being more forward.
We're going to redesign a smile for her and it's going to be very impactful for her.
Because it's not only going to change her smile, it's going to change her facial profile.
I think the big thing is whenever I take a picture
all my friends are always telling me that I need to smile more.
I'm hoping after today that's all that I'm going to be doing.
When you're designing something you're trying to design it for the person, so specifically
in all these little details.
And that's what's going to make teeth for her look like they're hers.
So there has to be nuances or else it will end up looking like a denture plate.
So I will shape the teeth very little on her.
And then we will take molds of that which will go to the lab and we'll be able to build the
porcelain veneers on top of.
After we take molds we'll make her final trial smile which she'll go home with.
She'll live with that for the next 2 weeks and it'll be a chance for her to say anything
she wants to to make sure that she likes the final result.
So these 3 weeks have been completely different from what I'm used to.
Today is a very very exciting day because we get to place the final veneers in,
which I'm so excited about.
Stop that.
Stop.
Are you shocked and awed?
No teeth.
That's insane.
Better right?
Looks great.
So the final veneers are in and I literally cannot stop staring at them they are so amazing.
I feel like a brand new person.
It's so nice.
It's as if nothing's in there
but looks like
a brand new smile.
I got my veneers in right now and I'm just going to eat an apple like nothing happened.