Book review

This is a beautiful looking book produced by Quintessence with brief descriptions in English and German.

Page 16 opens with some over prescription for some very minor chipping of upper front teeth with the tooth surface loss being most notable on the upper central incisors. The patient had 10 veneers placed without any description of how this was done or how long they had been in position. A vast amount of red lipstick was added to the visual effect.

The book then starts to degenerate into obscene over prescription. The second case shows a virtually intact smile being over-treated with 14 ‘no prep veneers’. Again, no description is given of what was done, nor indeed any clinical information offered as justification for this amount of treatment.

Page 26 shows a case of probable ‘Sipper's Gob’, where just the upper central incisors were eroded with no obvious erosion on the lower teeth. Apparently, the patient had her bite opened by 6.5 mm for 14 ‘no prep veneers’. Some directly applied composite, probably to the upper front teeth, could have been justified to treat the incisal erosion, but there can be no clinical justification for the treatment prescribed in which the upper lateral incisors end up being nearly twice the height of the two central incisors.