I Got Porcelain Restoration Veneers For The First Time | Macro Beauty | Refinery29 - video Dailymotion

Refinery29

This week on Macro Beauty, we follow our Refinery29 Senior Editorial Director Carli Whitwell who will be getting porcelain restoration veneers -- for the first time. Carli will go see dentist Dr. Andi-Jean Miro at Apa Aesthetic in Beverly Hills. Watch this episode to learn how this process works.  ABOUT SERIES We're getting up close and personal into all things beauty. Have you ever wondered whether or not waterproof mascara really works? Or been intrigued with tattooing your eyebrows? We'll show you this process like you have never seen it before!     ABOUT REFINERY29  Refinery29 is a modern woman's destination for how to live a stylish, well-rounded life. http://refinery29.com/  SUBSCRIBE TO REFINERY29 Subscribe to the Refinery29 channel: http://bit.ly/subscribe-to-r29 Follow Carli Whitwell on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carliwhitwell/ Follow Dr. Andi-Jean Miro on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aestheticsbyandi/ Follow Stribe Dental on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stribe.dental/ Follow Apa Aesthetic on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apa.aesthetic/ Follow Refinery29 on Instagram: https://instagram.com/refinery29/ Follow Somos on Instagram: https://instagram.com/r29somos/ Follow Unbothered on Instagram: https://instagram.com/r29unbothered/

Transcript

00:00My smile and my teeth mean everything to me.

00:03I think they're the first thing people see when you're out there in the world.

00:06We want to make sure that these teeth look like her teeth when she first came in

00:11and have that character.

00:19Hi, I'm Carly Whitwell.

00:21I'm the Senior Director of Editorial at Refinery29

00:23and I'm here to get porcelain restoration veneers

00:26by the Dr. Andy at Eppa Aesthetic in Beverly Hills.

00:30Will it be worth the time?

00:32Will it be worth the money?

00:33And will I recommend it to my friends?

00:35Let's head in.

00:41A little bit about my teeth journey.

00:43I love to smile.

00:44I'm always being told that I have such a friendly face

00:47but one of the things about my teeth is that they're quite small.

00:50When this opportunity came up, I said, I'd love to try.

00:53It's a big life change.

00:54My family and friends were all talking about it nonstop this week

00:57saying that it could totally change my face.

00:59The good news is I found out they're actually not going to be shaving down my teeth today

01:03because I have smaller teeth so that makes me feel quite excited.

01:06I hope that the result will be my smile just better

01:09so maybe a little bit bigger, a little bit brighter

01:12but still my best self at heart.

01:15My name is Dr. Andy Jean Miro and I am a dentist at Eppa Aesthetic L.A.

01:20I've been a dentist for about 10 years now.

01:23I graduated from NYU Dental School in 2014

01:26and I joined Eppa Aesthetic in New York City

01:30and now I'm out here in L.A.

01:33and I work in our L.A. office.

01:35Porcelain veneers can be made out of two different materials.

01:38The first material is feldspathic porcelain.

01:42This is the process that we hand layer ceramic.

01:47Another way that we can make veneers is using a resin or a bonding material.

01:53That will tend to chip or pick up stain a little bit more than your typical porcelain veneer.

01:59So we tend to prefer porcelain over bonding.

02:02Typically this can range from $800 to $5,000 per tooth.

02:08So it definitely can get expensive

02:10but I always tell patients good dentistry is expensive

02:14but bad dentistry will be more expensive

02:17because you'll have to pay to redo it over and over.

02:22Hi Dr. Andy.

02:23Hi love. How are you?

02:24I'm good. I had a great day.

02:25Love.

02:26We took some records.

02:27We took x-rays.

02:29We took some digital scans which I know you thought was really cool.

02:31That was my favorite part of the morning.

02:33Talk to me about veneers with Gen Z.

02:36They really had a resurgence.

02:37What are you seeing out there?

02:38I think I attribute a lot of that to COVID.

02:41So because during COVID we were on Zooms

02:44and we're really looking at ourselves for the first time in a really macro sense.

02:49So Zoom was the thing that really made this explode.

02:53On TikTok people are taking a burr and drilling the whole tooth down

02:58and then they're putting crowns on people's mouths.

03:00The problem with that is once you've removed tooth, that's it.

03:04You don't regrow tooth.

03:05Our job is to make sure that we're doing it the least invasive

03:09and you're going to see that today with your procedure.

03:11You're the perfect candidate for this.

03:13We are putting these temporary ones on for three weeks.

03:16What happens in the interim?

03:17I'm going on vacation in the interim.

03:19Oh, you're going to be smiling your life away on vacation.

03:22You're not even going to realize you have temporaries.

03:24They're going to look at you.

03:25They're going to say something looks a little different.

03:27Did you bleach your teeth?

03:28Yes.

03:29Something looks different by you but they won't be able to put your finger on it.

03:32But the purpose of the temporaries, it's like test driving the car before you get it.

03:37So we have a whole appointment tomorrow where you're going to come in.

03:40You're not numb.

03:41We're going to take some photos and we're going to look at it.

03:43We're going to look at the design and we're going to say,

03:45do we like this?

03:46Do we want to make any changes?

03:48After we've made all those decisions, that's when our lab will get started.

03:52Let's go see the lab.

03:53I want you to see where the magic is.

03:55Let's do it.

03:57The first day of prep, I'm typically designing what I see for Carly.

04:02The gaps are closed.

04:04The teeth are a little longer.

04:06They still look like her teeth, just a little bit better.

04:11Carly and I started this journey with a FaceTime consultation.

04:15We were able to treatment plan four restorations.

04:19We are going to use porcelain veneers to truly transform the way that her smile

04:26is.

04:26The goal of this is to make sure that we close the gaps and we align the teeth so that

04:34it makes her whole smile look better.

04:37During the process, we don't really have to drill her tooth.

04:42We're really getting the teeth ready to be able to receive the veneers.

04:47A big part of this is making temporaries that she will go home and wear for the next two-ish

04:54weeks while our final restorations are being made.

05:00Now we have taken a final impression.

05:03That final impression goes to our in-house team and that is what they will make the final

05:09teeth on.

05:09So you'll notice towards the end of the procedure that we put those teeth in and we really carve

05:15them to look like teeth.

05:17That is our goal.

05:18We want to make sure that these teeth are individual even though the temporaries are attached.

05:24We want to make sure that they look like her teeth when she first came in and have that

05:30character of her teeth.

05:33Take a peek.

05:34Ah!

05:35Oh my god.

05:36Oh my god.

05:38Oh my god.

05:39We did it.

05:40You did it.

05:40I'm so excited.

05:41You did it.

05:41No, I did nothing.

05:43You did great.

05:43Now that you have this amazing new smile, we are going to be a little restricted in what

05:49we're eating.

05:49We cannot bite into anything with your front teeth.

05:52My rule of thumb is anything that will stain your white shirt will stain your temporary.

05:57As much as you can, use a straw.

05:59You're going to cut everything and put it all the way in the back of your mouth.

06:02And don't bite into anything.

06:04Okay.

06:05Tomorrow we're going to check the way you function.

06:07We're going to check the aesthetics.

06:08We're going to make sure we like it all.

06:09And we'll dial it all in.

06:11That's it.

06:12You'll do great.

06:13Alright, have a good night.

06:14Thank you so much.

06:14Rest up and we'll make it all perfect.

06:16Wait, I can work out as normal and everything?

06:18Yeah, live your best life.

06:20Typically, we'll have the patient come back the next day after we've done our prep.

06:25The goal of this appointment is to truly understand what does it look like?

06:30What does it feel like?

06:32And are there any changes that the patient wants to make?

06:37Hey, Dr. Andy.

06:38Hey!

06:38It's been like 25 days.

06:40I was counting down 25 days with these.

06:43You did pretty good in the temporaries.

06:45I found it a little funky at first.

06:47That first night was sore.

06:48I ordered some soup for dinner.

06:49And then, yeah, I think just finding the last three weeks just trying to go out for dinner

06:53and chew, like, mm, asking me to drink my red wine with a straw on vacation was, I got

06:58some funny looks, but it was worth it.

07:01It mostly just felt uncomfortable the few days and I would say, like, now I kind of just

07:04forgot about it.

07:05I always say temporaries are hard, so this part can be very easy.

07:09Today is going to be really easy because we have your final teeth.

07:16There are about 20 hours that went into hand layering these beautiful teeth.

07:23Today, we are going to take your temporaries off, try everything in, bond them all in, and

07:30that's it.

07:36So right now you can see I'm removing the temporaries.

07:41We are going to try in each restoration.

07:45We try these restorations in with water.

07:47That allows us to see the true color of the ceramic.

07:51So if at this point I felt like we needed to make the color a little brighter, if we had

07:58to make any changes, I can take our case and go to the laboratory and make those adjustments.

08:03One of the biggest checkpoints, and this is part of putting the teeth in, typically we

08:09will try in half of our temporaries versus our finals.

08:14And we want to make sure that these things line up.

08:17We are adding etch to the teeth.

08:20What this is doing is opening up the porosities in the teeth to be able to allow the next step

08:28which is the bonding agent to infiltrate into all those little pores and then sit there.

08:35That bonding agent will create an adhesive structure for our cement, which is inside of our veneer,

08:42to then adhere to the tooth.

08:44So as soon as we hit it with that curing light, the material becomes hard and it's fixed to the

08:50tooth.

08:51That allows us to then go in with our little in-between piece of metal.

08:55And that will allow us to clean the in-betweens.

08:59And then we will use our curing lights to fully cure and set the material into place.

09:04So these last steps, I want to make sure that where the tooth meets the gum is flat and that

09:11there's no areas

09:12for plaque to be picking up or any stain or tartar.

09:17It's time for the reveal!

09:19Okay, ready?

09:20Okay.

09:22I'm dying!

09:24Oh my god!

09:25They look so...

09:26Oh my god!

09:27They look real!

09:28They look real!

09:30I feel so excited because I think the teeth look just like my teeth.

09:34I would 1000% recommend getting porcelain veneers to anyone who wants to change their smile

09:39or make it a little better.

09:41It feels like myself.

09:43It feels like my own teeth.

09:45And I just can't wait to smile even more.

09:47When you have veneers, it's even more important for you to be seeing your dentist every three

09:52to four months for a checkup and a cleaning, wearing that retainer or night guard, and then

09:58most importantly, having an electric toothbrush.

10:01That is key to making sure her gums stay healthy for a really long time.

10:07And that is the goal for Carly to make sure that not only does this look good, but it lasts

10:15a really long time.

10:17Hi everyone, it's Carly.

10:19It's officially been two weeks since I got my porcelain veneers and I feel like I've had

10:24them forever.

10:25I literally cannot stop smiling.

10:27I feel like I have lipstick on my teeth.

10:29No, let's ignore that.

10:31I had been worried when I was going into it because a lot of my family and friends, they

10:35said, you don't need veneers.

10:37You have beautiful teeth.

10:38Why would you change your smile?

10:39And what I loved about this experience with Dr. Andy is that she didn't change my smile

10:43at all.

10:43She just brought out my smile and made it a little bit better.

10:47My teeth here are not so big.

10:49They match the rest of my teeth.

10:51People have actually been like, look different.

10:53Did you do your hair or did you get your teeth whitened?

10:56And then I just have to tell them, well, I actually got four veneers here.

10:59I think they say it takes three weeks to start a habit and maybe three weeks to get used

11:03to something.

11:03So they absolutely just feel like my own teeth.

11:06I will say when I first looked at myself, I just, I couldn't stop smiling.

11:09I was so excited.

11:11I just was beaming and I think it even affected my confidence a little bit as well because

11:16it just feels like me, but just like sort of a little, a bit shinier version of me.

11:21Emotionally, it was a bit of a roller coaster because you are changing your smile and people

11:26say, you know, you can get bad veneers and you absolutely can.

11:29We've all seen that on the internet.

11:31But for me, the fact that Dr. Andy walked me through every single step of the process

11:35and said, we can stop at any time or pull back or fix what you like was just so, so

11:40helpful

11:40because we could make it my own smile.

11:42To watch more videos, subscribe here.

I Got Porcelain Restoration Veneers For The First Time | Macro Beauty | Refinery29

Category

Transcript

Comments

Recommended