Smiling from the Inside Out: Restoring a Smile After an Eating Disorder by Susan McMahon, DMD chairside@glidewelldental.com
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reating patients with teeth ravaged by the effects of eating disorders requires a level of care and consultation beyond what is necessary for almost any other presenting dental scenario. It would clearly be counterproductive to restore the smile of someone still struggling with bulimia because the continued purging would destroy new restorations as completely as it did the patient’s natural teeth. But how can dentists be certain their patient’s struggles with purging are no longer present? How
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