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Fear in dentistry, nervous, anxiety, scared, afraid of dentist - see Phobia dental
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	Before and After treatment Cosmetic Dental pictures of a patient who suffered from Dental Fear Anxiety who was scared of the dentist. This patient denied drug abuse but did admit to drinking a lot of soda. This initial treatment took only two hours. More dentistry is still needed.
	Dental Oral Mouth Reconstruction - Smile Makeover - of a phobic Wall Street executive. Total treatment time was about nine hours in two visits during one business week: Monday (4 hours) and Friday (5 hours). This patient hid his dental condition for over ten years by never smiling. In the first row of photos, note that the bite was over-closed due to a prior history of an eating disorder, now controlled, and a current tooth grinding habit. An Oral Surgery consultation with panoramic x-ray (second row) was performed prior to treatment to evaluate opening the bite. The third row shows x-rays taken after the Endodontist completed eight root canals on the first day on tooth #'s: 6 - 11 and 14, 15. The fourth row shows the lab-processed 11 unit (11 tooth) temporary bridge and the cast gold post/cores (with Kaitlyn loops) for the root canal treated teeth. The fifth row shows the cast gold post/cores cemented. The sixth row shows the lab-processed temporary bridge in place after the surgeon extracted tooth #'s: 3 - 5 and 12, crown lengthening gum surgery was performed on tooth #'s: 6 - 11, and a distal wedge was performed on #15. The patient will have a final porcelain-metal bridge made after the gums heal. Implants may also be placed in the upper right posterior. A bite plate is also necessary to try to mitigate the force of tooth grinding. Referral for pharmacological management of anxiety is also worthwhile.
	Fix Mouth Reconstruction - Extreme Smile Makeover - performed by a Columbia University dental student in our office. The student, Jared Bowyer, is part of a unique honors program at Columbia and NYU dental schools available to patients for reduced fees.
	Selective tooth extraction during an upper reconstruction on a patient who suffered from Dental Fear Phobia Anxiety. The initial treatment plan considered saving teeth #'s 6, 7 and 9 while extracting teeth #'s 5 and 8. During the oral surgery, tooth #5 was considered more stable than tooth #6 so #5 was retained and #6 was extracted. The retained teeth will be used to support a fixed temporary dental bridge until subsequent dental implant dentistry is completed. This reconstruction is being performed in our office by Jared Bowyer, a Columbia University dental student, who is part of a unique honors program. The surgery was performed by oral surgeon, Reza Miremadi, D.D.S, M.D.
Information about these dental photos In medicine and dentistry "left" and "right" are based upon the orientation of the patient's body and not how they appear in a photograph of a smile. For example, a reference to the upper left teeth will actually appear to be on the right side when viewing a picture of the face and similarly an upper right tooth will appear to be on the left side. Many words in dentistry like oral and mouth have a similar meaning and are frequently used together to help our readers find specific words they best understand. This is particularly important because a majority of our visitors are from countries where English is not their primary language. Maxilla or maxillary refer to the upper jaw. Mandible or mandibular refer to the lower jaw. There are many other similar word combinations used throughout this website because our pages are read by patients and dentists. A few of the most common are discussed here. Tooth decay, tooth cavity and dental caries all mean the same thing. Tooth, teeth and dental are also frequently interchanged as in teeth veneers or dental veneer laminate. Oral rehabilitation and dental reconstruction mean smile makeover. The word for x-ray may be used with or without a hyphen (this is true for other words too) and can also be called a radiograph.

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