Read Our Great Basking Ridge Patient Testimonials & Reviews

At first, I didn't realize how big of a game-changer your gums can be on a smile, and I never understood that. As Dr. T brought that to my attention, I can even look in the mirror and see that. My gums would come further down on my one front tooth and … they were big. I had a very gummy smile.

Dr. Trichas offered to do gum contouring. They went in and they increased my tooth structure, so more of my teeth were showing, rather than a more gummy smile. When I do smile big now, which is always, you're seeing all my teeth rather than just gums.

Dr. T ... he is so great. He's so gentle. He's kind. He's caring. He knows that I had severe anxiety, and he was able to help me cope with that and just make it so comfortable being there. I was here once a week for two years. He made it just so easy and enjoyable, if that even is possible at a dentist. He's great.

I was going to Portugal on a trip with my wife, a bicycle trip. Literally, the night before we were leaving, we were leaving at 3:00 the next afternoon, the night before, I broke a tooth. I called Konstantine. Called over here. Talked to Pam or Susan, I can't remember which one, in a panic: "What am I going to do? I can't go to Europe like this." She said, "Come in at 8:00 tomorrow morning to Konstantine's office, and we'll fix it for you," and they did. It's just like, no questions asked. You need to come in, great. Consequently, at 3:00 that afternoon, I was on the flight to go to Portugal.

Well, you know, there's a lot of dentists out there that are really good technicians, and Konstantine is that too, but the thing that really sets him apart is his heart. He brings his heart to work, and it's really, really a wonderful experience when you come in and you feel that. That exudes all the way through the staff, from the dental hygienists to the office staff to the desk staff. Everybody there is kind of coming from that same place, and I think it all comes from the leadership. It all comes from the guy in charge. That's what he brings that a lot of dentists don't bring.

Well, he's delightful. He has a genuine, caring type of personality. He is so enthusiastic about what he does. He's an artist, and he really takes his job very seriously. There's a passion that's there, which I find makes me feel very comfortable in knowing that whatever work that he's doing on my mouth, that he looks at it as if it's ... he wants to do the very best that he possibly can, because his name is attached to whatever it is that he's done in your mouth to create the best smile that you possibly can have.

So I'd rather be in the hand of someone who has a great passion over what they do, because they're not going to stop until they have created the epitome of the best. That's how I feel when I sit in his chair. He has a great personality. He's funny, he's good looking, and he has a way about making you feel comfortable. Actually, he makes me feel like I'm part of his family.

I've been coming to this office for about two years. In between those two years, I've had some difficult times in my life. I would share it with him, and I tell you, he would make sure that I was comfortable, I was at ease. Not many people can make you feel that comfortable to be able to share what's going on in your life, and for him to be responsive to it. Not only him, but also his assistant and the receptionist. Everybody in this office, it's like a family.

I went to a dentist prior, and I wasn't happy with my smile. I had a little gap, and I wanted to get it fixed. Unfortunately, I had two teeth pulled out, I had four teeth ground down, and I had an ill-fitted bridge put in that completely changed the structure of my mouth, so literally for 10 years I was covering my smile, putting my head down when I laughed, and decided to see what I can do to improve it. I saw Dr. Trichas on the internet, called, made an appointment, had a consultation. The minute I came in here, I saw Pam and Sue and felt welcoming. With all secretaries when you come in, you're supposed to feel that way. I met with Dr. Trichas, and it was instant connection. Not as a dentist-patient; just as a human being. We talked about different things, he made me feel relaxed, explained in detail what I would go through, what the procedures were, that it wasn't overnight – this is a process, this is a process. I'm so grateful, I'm really grateful because it's changed my life. It's given me my smile back.

I chose the All-on-4 option because it was the best for me, best suited for me. It is a high-tech procedure, it's not an overnight procedure, and he let me know that. He said, “It's a process.” If you're not happy with how you feel, it just makes a difference to know this is the best process, this is the best procedure for me individually, it's what I wanted. I could have bridges put in, little bridgesxe said, “you have A, B, and C; this is the best,” and that's what I did.

Two years ago, I was in a lot of pain, and my whole mouth hurt so much that I was honestly walking around just holding my face. And I googled a doctor just to see who would be the best fit for me, and at the time, I actually wanted all dentures because I was so over the pain and the suffering that I was going through. So he popped up that he did the surgery that I was looking for for the dentures, and then when I got here, he saw that I was only 24 at the time. He said, "Absolutely not." He said, "I have something better. Give me 24 hours, and we're going to come up with a plan for you," and he did it. And it was scary, but I am so grateful that I don't have dentures at the age of 26.

He had to pull I think about eight teeth. So all my back teeth. He had to fix a few of the cavities that I had, the ones that he could fix and could save, he tried to save as many as he could. He immediately said that he wanted me to see the overall picture, and that was my veneers and my implants and everything, and he immediately was able to show me all of that.

I look back and see the pictures of my teeth, and I cannot believe that I grew up with that and I had that for so many years. And I was insecure about it. I wouldn't smile big. There were certain directions that I wouldn't take pictures from because I felt that my teeth would not look as great in the picture, and I can't imagine ever going back.

I finally have the smile that fits my personality. I'm very outgoing. I love people, and for someone who smiles so much in the past and wasn't comfortable with their smile, that was very hard. And I can honestly say I don't stop smiling now. I mean, I've never been one to get complimented on my teeth, and now it's me that everyone's complimenting. And I won't know someone and they'll come up and say, "Who's your dentist? Are those your real teeth?" And all this other ... Listen, give me a big head. I don't care. I will take those compliments all day long. So it feels incredible.

I had straight teeth. It's just I had an overbite, so my teeth weren't, I guess, aligned properly. It wasn't, I guess, super white basically. And so when I came here, Dr. T. was like, "Okay, you just have an overbite. Your teeth are straight. You just have an overbite that you need to fix." And then he recommended the bleaching for me. And then when you put the two together, I was like, okay, that looks pretty good. Six months later, I'm not complaining. I'm pretty happy.

When I was back in, I would say, sixth grade, I actually did get braces. I did the whole process for about five years. Once you finish braces, you get a retainer just like an Invisalign. But I lost my retainer, so the process kind of went backwards. I never paid for a new retainer, so I had to do it all over again. And since I'm 25 now, I didn't want to do the metal thing again, so I just went for the Invisalign just because it's invisible basically.

While I did the process I did have a few auditions, and so it made it a lot less awkward to not have a mouth full of metal while I'm speaking to a casting director, or a director, or what have you.

The teeth whitening process, they call it [KoRs]. I've never done any sort of bleaching before. Basically you have a little kit where you have a little solution that you put on your teeth, and then it's also, I guess, the actual bleaching is like a gel that you take home with you, and you put it inside of ... it looks like a bare retainer since you just fill up with gel, and you put it on your teeth like a mouthguard. And so, you just leave it in overnight, wake up in the morning, wash it out, and then repeat the next day basically.

Now that I have Invisalign done with the bleaching, I pretty much will find any excuse to smile, so if I could laugh at anyone's jokes, whether they're good or bad, if I could smile at any event. It’s pretty awesome.

Some of the bad dentistry work I've had done before, so consequently, my teeth aren't in great shape, and I've had four pretty major things that Konstantine has worked on for me.

One of them was restoring this front tooth right here, and it was really great. I was pointing this out to my sister, who's a dental hygienist in North Carolina, and I actually pointed to the wrong tooth.

I went, "Yeah, he fixed that one." She said, "Was it that one? Because, it looks like the other one." I said, "Oh, yeah, you're right. It was the other one." I can't even tell, so that was great.

Some crowns have had to be replaced. Some new problems that have come up. But for the most part, it doesn't seem to matter. Whatever it is, whether it's new or old, Konstantine's able to really make it work, fix it, make me feel … make me … makes me smile with people. Because before, when you, when that front tooth breaks, and it breaks off, you're sitting there, you don't want to smile to anybody. It's nice to be able to do, have that ability to do that now.

It comes from this place in his heart. He's also just this master technician. The thing that's really, really great about it is, the three or four cosmetic things I've had, this guy is an artist, which is really so unusual. There's a lot of dentists out there that are good technicians, but this guy is an artist, and he really, really cares. He does – everything that I've had to have done – he does really, really well.

I felt like my smile, when I would smile, I would always keep my lips closed because I didn't like the way how my teeth looked. I didn't like the color of my teeth. I didn't like the layout of it. It looked like my smile was crooked. I never realized that by not having a great smile, that it kind of made me feel a little insecure.

So on my birthday back in 2016, I said, "You know what? I'm going to go on my birthday, and I am going to see what they can do to create a beautiful smile for me." And when I came, I knew that this would be the right thing for me to do, which would be to have the veneers. And he described the entire process that I had to go through, and I am so glad that I did that because now, where at one time my confidence wasn't there, and I didn't even realize that would've been the case, now by me having this beautiful smile, it suits my personality. And that's what Dr. T would tell me. "Ava, your smile does not match up with your face, and when you get your new teeth, when you get your veneers, you're going to see such a difference." And it's true.

My whole – I'm going to say my personality, which was always there but just needed to be enhanced – through my having veneers, my personality has come forth in such a way with such confidence that when I speak, I'm not being bashful because of the way how my teeth look. That I can smile, and feel confident that I have a great smile.