Can the canine be reshaped to look as lateral incisor?

Q. I am missing my upper right lateral incisor. After my orthodontic treatment with braces, the right canine will be next to my right central incisor. How can I make this look esthetically better? The canine can be bleached so it doesn’t look yellowish but can I also use porcelain veneer to make the right canine and left lateral incisor look similar? how is this done? can the canine be reshaped to look as a lateral incisor?

A. This is a difficult problem as the canines are very wide in comparison to lateral incisors.  reshaping with veneers can help to improve the proportions of these teeth compared to your 2 front teeth.  Sometimes multiple veneers are required to get the best result

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January 16th, 2012 at 08:47 PM
safa Says :

i am missing my upper left lateral incisor After my orthodontic treatment with braces, the left canine will be next to my central incisor. and the doctore get the canine down in the same level of lateral incisre but i get depression on my face . my face not similar how to solve this problem . now the problem with my face not with the tooth

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