Coronado Family Dental

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08/24/2024

So excited about this year’s CHS football season! Go islanders!

08/30/2023

What a great opportunity to sponsor these dedicated young men and young women on the Coronado HS Football team!

Thank you for stopping by the office!

Go Islanders!

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11/13/2022

So thankful to have a chance to learn from the best and also to learn with my best friend! Thank you Dr. Sascha Jovanovic and Dr. Dennis Hunt for your passion in helping me and Dr. Oung grow professionally.

We’ll see you all in a couple of months!

09/17/2022

Last night was such an amazing experience!

Thank you Coronado Islanders Football for allowing my family the chance to walk on the field before the game and do the coin toss!

My girls especially had a blast!

Good luck the rest of the season!

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09/01/2022

Wow, Brazil 🇧🇷. You have been incredible to me for the second year in a row. So thankful for the generous spirit and kindness of the professors and the camaraderie that was forged with friends, old and new, over the past 8 days. Forever grateful for the experience that you have given me as a clinician and as a person.

Until next year!

07/23/2022

All art is but imitation of nature.“ - Seneca the Younger.

This patient had a childhood accident where half of one of her front tooth was broken and was repaired years ago with a filling. The discoloration and roughness is easy to see in the second photo and the esthetics were limited with the technologies of the time it was repaired.

Of course there are many treatment options.

A common treatment option is to place a crown using porcelain on tooth with the childhood accident.

This would involve shaving the tooth down and placing a porcelain crown or porcelain veneer in it.

Even though this is what most dentists would do, I don’t think that this is something that we should do in this situation.

With only the one tooth crowned or veneered with porcelain, it will be nearly impossible to match the neighboring natural teeth due to the light scattering properties of porcelain, the translucency of porcelain versus real tooth structure, and the inability for most dentists to communicate in that detail with their lab artist on how to create the three-dimensional coloration that is uniquely present in every natural tooth.

This is the reason why a many dentists commonly recommend 6, 8, or even 10 veneers on the teeth surrounding the single porcelain crown to camouflage the effect of porcelain in the smile.

We were able to repair it another way.
Without shaving any of her natural tooth. AND WITHOUT shots. In first photo, composite was layered with 4-5 different shades of composite and the single tooth was stained with 2-3 other special color modifiers to achieve this identical result. The patient was so happy with the result and that to a cosmetic dentist, is everything!

The smile truly is the prettiest thing you can wear.

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07/23/2022

All art is but imitation of nature.“ - Seneca the Younger.

This patient had a childhood accident where half of one of her front tooth was broken and was repaired years ago with a filling. The discoloration and roughness is easy to see in the second photo and the esthetics were limited with the technologies of the time it was repaired.

Of course there are many treatment options, including shaving that traumatized single tooth down and placing a porcelain crown or porcelain veneer in it. The issue with this option is that porcelain on only one front tooth, especially in the front, will be very noticeable. This is the reason why a common treatment option is recommending additional veneers on the teeth surrounding the single porcelain crown, which means shaving unaffected teeth because of one accident.

We were able to repair it another way.
Without shaving any of her natural tooth. AND Without shots. In first photo, composite was layered with 4-5 different shades of composite and the single tooth was stained with 2-3 other special color modifiers to achieve this identical result and I am so happy that the patient was thrilled.

The smile truly is the prettiest thing you can wear.

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01/09/2022

I was blown away by this past weekend on my journey of becoming a better dentist. As the good ones always say, learning never stops!

I am so grateful to learn from from the best () in the minimally invasive way to make teeth beautiful. His master class is exactly what dentistry should be all about.

It was good to make new friends and connect with old ones in Houston this past weekend! Until next time!
virgiliogutierrez

12/24/2021

From our family to yours, Happy Holidays! 🎄

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