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Fig 4: Full Mouth Rehabilitation using
veneers and crowns: Post-treatment
intraoral photographs
Fig 4d Fig 4e

Fig 5: Full Mouth Rehabilitation using
veneers and crowns: Post-treatment
extraoral photographs
Fig 5a Fig 5b
CASE 2 overjet and overbite, which would have compromised the restorative
A 39-year-old male patient presented with the chief complaint of outcome. The obvious Bolton’s tooth material excess in the mandibular
unsightly teeth, featuring gaps and discoloration. The patient had a arch needed to be balanced prior to any restorative work.
concave profile with a skeletal Class III tendency (Figure 6). Lower interproximal reduction (IPR) and retraction were planned and
On intraoral examination, the patient had generalized severe executed using clear aligner therapy to correct the negative overjet
discoloration, a missing lateral incisor in the upper left quadrant, (Figure 8), followed by full mouth rehabilitation (Figure 9). Veneers
and a peg-shaped lateral incisor in the upper right quadrant. The left were cemented on teeth 14 to 24, except on 12, where an all-ceramic
maxillary canine had moved mesially and was in cross-bite. An open crown was placed. Root canal-treated mandibular first molars received
bite with a negative overjet was also observed (Figure 7). A restorative monolithic crowns. A pleasing profile with an aesthetic and functional
alternative for the upper teeth alone was ruled out due to the negative smile was achieved, resulting in a satisfied patient.
cAse 2

Fig 6: Pre-treatment extraoral photograph Fig 7a Fig 7b
Fig 7: Pre-
treatment
Intraoral
photographs

Fig 7c Fig 7d Fig 7e
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