aka Anterior Guidance
I look like a vampire
This is very often the immediate feedback from patients when I do a full mouth rehabilitation and establish or re-establish Canine Disclusion
Overview
Prominent anterior teeth are desirable. It protect your back teeth from breaking each other when BRUXING– Its the concept of Canine Disclusion
Anterior Guidance or Canine Guidance
The form or shape of your front teeth are necessary to protect your back teeth when you grind or gnash your teeth (ie Brux). Front teeth are long skinny teeth usually with a single root are designed to tear food. Their length serve to transmit through the bone of your skull or your jaw that the food is perhaps too hard to tear so you stop. However if you really need to crack open that crab claw or pistachio nut you would use your back teeth.
Back teeth are short…
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