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Dark Single Central Incisor

Thomas Monahan Daniel Wilson
8 years ago

One of the docs in my practice referred this younger woman to me to match her darker endo treated Central to the rest of her dentition

So the tooth wasn't that dark and she had previous attempts at some internal bleaching but obviously the previous dentist wasn't able to get it dark enough.  I was pretty conservative with my prep and didn't reduce the facial more than I typically prep.  My plan was to use an MT or Impulse block.

I ended up using a V3 Impulse block and used eMax stains for this case.  I actually added a little bit of composite on the mesial of #8 & 9 in order to close her gingival embrasure a little more and then biocopied what I had done.  I was pleased with this case and really happy that I didn't need to go with a lower translucency block.  With the pics blown up I may have put a little too much translucency on #8 but the patient was thrilled and didn't want me to change anything.   A few of these pics have some try in paste residue on the tissue.  I ended up needing to tone down the value a touch so I cemented with Variolink Esthetic Warm.

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