I am a dentist and have been practicing for 15 years. I always send my gummy smile patients to Dr. Farnoosh for lip lowering treatment. Because Dr. Farnoosh developed the procedure most dentists, myself included, do not know how to do the lip lowering procedure. Many of them recommend veneers or crown lengthening to patients when it may not be the best soltion. The problem with using veneers for correcting a gummy smile is that they are very expensive and may not resolve the problem of the excess gum tissue. Crown lengthening which involves resection or surgical removal of the gum tissue in some cases may cause other aesthetic problems or destabilize the teeth. Some patients with very gummy smiles that receive crown lengthening then appear to have "horse teeth" or teeth that look very long. In some of these cases the problem involves a hypermobile lip and therefore crown lengthening (which affects the gum tissue ) does not even address the problem which is a hypermobile lip.

If you have a gummy smile please do your research and examine the various treatment options before you decide to pursue crown lengthening and veneers to resolve your gummy smile. In my experience, lip lowering is often a far better solution for patients.