A Better You Starts with a Beautiful Smile
CARE IN AN ENVIRONMENT OF EXCELLENCE
Meet Garrett Brink, DMD, FICOI
Hockessin, DE Family and Cosmetic Dentist, and Implantologist, Dr Brink, is committed to high standards, integrity, and providing compassionate patient care.
"It is our mission to treat patients exactly how we’d want to be treated. Keeping this in mind, with our caring staff and state of the art facilities we strive to offer patients the look they want at the price they can afford."
Why Choose Us?
Dentistry is always changing. We stay on top of the latest advances in techniques and technology to ensure that you have access to state-of-the-art treatment. Our team recognizes the importance of continuing education and we are constantly striving to improve your experience. From our office staff, to our hygienist and doctors, everyone at our practice is a dedicated professional with a deep understanding of their specialty within our practice. We make your oral health our first priority.
WHAT OUR PATIENTS ARE SAYING
Meeting a new dentist can be unnerving. On my first visit for a broken tooth, I received a warm welcome from Dr. Brink and his friendly staff. He explained what needed to be done, was honest and straightforward and provided the best care - all with a gentle touch. I ...
I’ve been to a lot of dentist across the country due to career relocations. Dr. Garrett Brink is an amazing and gifted dentist. I highly recommend that you use him for any dental services. He is professional, compassionate and for those who have some dental fears…he is very ...
What a wonderful dental office! The staff is over the top friendly. I especially enjoy Jillian at the front desk. The office is clean and inviting and for someone who doesn't especially love the dentist(who does) they are exceptionally accommodating. Highly recommend to anyone!
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Our staff has expanded by one. Everyone please welcome our newest office manager, Tatum, who joined the party Nov 12th.
Which set of teeth would you prefer? We fabricated a new maxillary complete denture and mandibular implant overdenture for this very kind patient.
The original set would not stay in without globs of adhesive, even the original implant denture. The original set also had teeth improperly positioned causing a significant lisp and had minimal tooth display when smiling.
The new dentures may be a little bit too retentive 😁. No more adhesive needed for the upper denture!
Beautiful smile transformation where we accomplished so much, and likely hit every bump in the road in order to get to where we’re at. This case was by far the most challenging cosmetic rehab that I’ve completed.
Key things we corrected:
-Smile Arc: This patient started with a reverse smile line which canted to the left (front 4-6 teeth that don’t follow the lip line). By utilizing extra oral photographs, I knew I needed to add length to make the teeth match the patient’s face.
-Proportions and Contours: All 6 anterior teeth had different lengths, widths, and contours. This patient had poorly shaped composite veneers that contributed to food impaction, making hygiene difficult.
-Midline Asymmetry: dental midline’s and facial-dental midline’s were completely mismatched
-Implant therapy: Tooth #10 required removal and replacement with an immediate implant with immediate temporization. Tooth #12 was an implant placed by another provider and was a brand that I find difficult to restore.
What went wrong:
-Immediate implant #10 failed within a month of placement and took all of the buccal bone with it. This patient already had a soft tissue discrepancy and we couldn’t afford to lose any more tissue. Removal of the failed implant with hard and soft tissue grafting and replacement with an immediate temporary bridge was needed to rebuild the foundation for another implant while allowing the patient to not go without a front tooth.
-Patient hated her temporary restorations.
-My cosmetic lab doesn’t work with encode (scannable) healing abutments (tooth #12), which I didnt know until after scanning for final restorations. This forced me to use a second lab, who couldnt make tooth #12 until every other restoration was delivered.
-Tooth #10s screw retained final restoration partially debonded from the abutment after delivery. It’s never a good feeling when a patient calls saying “my implant is loose”
-My implant lab made the wrong type of crown for tooth #12 which required remaking and another appointment.
Despite perceived short-term “failures,” we were able to achieve a dramatically improved and highly functioning smile that will last for many years to come.
Honored to be awarded as a Top 40 under 40 dentist in America for 2024. Check out the excerpt from @incisaledgemagazine from our June photo shoot in NYC
With the right photographs and high-end cosmetic lab, single unit shade matches are starting to become a breeze.
This patient’s front tooth had an old, discolored bonding that was replaced with a single e.max crown. We chose a crown instead of a veneer due to the patients occlusion which would have left a lot of unsupported porcelain after removal of the old bonding (never place a margin on the point of occlusal contact).
When initially trying this crown in, the shade had way too much color value (too bright). Thankfully this crown material is very translucent and the cement shade can influence the overall tooth shade. I chose Variolink Esthetic Warm dual cure resin cement to seamlessly blend this restoration into the overall smile.
Final crown insertion after extraction and Immediate Implant of a central incisor with grafting and Fibro-Gide® placement. We followed this up with a custom shaded layered zirconia screw retained prosthesis. Given how blanched the tissue looks today, we should get an amazing soft tissue response/papilla fill in over the next few months.
What makes our office stand out is that all of these services can be completed under one roof.
Quick smile upgrade by replacing an old PFM crown with exposed metal margins and a single minimal prep veneer.
Comprehensive smile makeover involving immediate dental implant treatment and cingulum sparing crowns to re-establish form and function. We completed this case just in time for this patient’s sons wedding.
This case was completed using a fully digital workflow utilizing @evidentdigital for smile design, our Trios 5 for preparation scan, and @aaron_labguy_hoffman @sunflower_dental_studio for ceramics.
