Million Dollar Smile

truth? The truth is, it is more expensive
not to have a wonderful smile than to go
to the expense to gel one. I don't know
how to put an exact financial value on
but. I bet it is 1,000 times more than it
costs. In business, looks de count. You
don't have to have a face of a movie star
or the body of a bikini model... but... if
you don't smile because you are ashamed
of your teeth, 1 believe the overall financial cost to you will be (during the life-

As far as the personal side is concerned, a beautiful smile is such a "tur

know who does not charge for x-rays.
Because it takes a few days to get the x-
rays back from the lab and the retouched
photo showing how you will look with
appointment with you. During that sec-
work you need, show you how it is poine
to look. tell you how much it will cost...
and... he will explain all the easy ways
you can handle the expense. Then, if you
decide to go ahead, he'll get started
immediately. He'll do the slight modification of your teeth needed and take an
impression of the prepared teeth. These
models of your prepared teeth will be
used to sculpt the Veneers to the shape of
each tooth... so they will be 100% unde-
At the same time, he will specify the
proper color shading of your Veneers.
didn't give him a choice. I insisted on the

In only about a week, your Veneers will
be ready for bonding. This can be done in
one visit! An etching solution will be
applied, each tooth carefully rinsed and
dried and the adhesive applied
Gleghom will bond it by curing it with a
special light for about 60 seconds. Then.
You Will Look In The Mirror

little pain (probably one
whatsoever) because he knows the almost
described earlier... no long wait...
the change this can make in your life just
By the way, Dr. Gleghom limits his
practice to only cosmetic dentistry, his
office is located in Colleyville and you
can set up an appointment with him by
(817) 514-8899
If you are interested, you should proba-

pies most common concom doout uncl
teeth... which is... how white they are...
or... more accurately, how white they are
not Do you know how a jeweler grades a
diamond? They do it on cut, clanty and
color. The way a jeweler grades the color
(the whiter, the better)... is... he holds a
real diamond up close to a set of color-
coded fake diamonds and sees which colored fake most closely matches the real
diamond
A dentist does it the same way. Almost
every dentist has a set of fake teeth (there
aro usually 16 in the set) and he car
match the color of your teeth to sec what
"shade grade" it gets by holding one of
the teeth in his "color test kir" against one
of your teeth. Here are the 16 "shade
grades" a dentist can assign to your
teeth... and... a description of what a tooth
with that parlicular "shade grade" looks
like to me. Now listen: You need to
remember i am not a dentist so, what you
are about to read is my own opinion of
how these different "shade grades" of