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Dr. Maryz Estedrak, DDS
4.9 Star Rated
100% Custom Porcelain
There's a particular kind of photo you've stopped looking at. A friend tags you, you click the notification, you scan it - and your eyes go straight to your own smile before they go anywhere else. You notice the chip you've had since you were nine. The way one tooth turns slightly. The shade that's never been quite white, even after the whitening trays. You scroll past.
If that's familiar, you're in good company. The patients who walk into our office asking about veneers in Glen Rock, NJ aren't vain. They're usually people who've quietly disliked their smile for years - decades, sometimes - and have finally decided to do something about it.
Veneers are how you do something about it. Done well, they give you the version of your smile that should have been there all along: even, bright, natural-looking, and unmistakably yours. Not someone else's teeth glued onto your face. Just your smile, edited.
If you've been searching for a cosmetic dentist who does this work well, here's what you should know about the procedure, the options, and what separates a generic veneers job from a smile you'll actually want to show off.
A veneer is a thin, custom-shaped shell that covers the front surface of a tooth. It's designed to change the color, shape, length, or alignment of that tooth in a single, permanent layer.
The shells themselves are made of either porcelain or a tooth-colored composite resin. Porcelain veneers are the gold standard - durable, stain-resistant, and translucent in a way that mimics real enamel. Composite veneers are a faster option for smaller cosmetic veneers cases, but they don't hold up to time and staining the way porcelain does.
The process is straightforward in concept. We design the new smile digitally, minimally prepare the front surface of each tooth (we're not grinding teeth down - the prep is conservative by design), take a precise digital scan, and then bond the custom porcelain veneers to your teeth on a follow-up visit.
The result is permanent in the sense that it's not removable. It's also remarkably natural-looking in the hands of a dentist who treats this work as art, not assembly.
People sometimes assume veneers are an all-or-nothing thing - a full Hollywood set or nothing. They're not. We use veneers to address very specific concerns, and the right plan might involve a single tooth, a few teeth, or a full smile transformation. Common cases:
Chips on the front edges of teeth - from a fall years ago, a hard bite of something you shouldn't have, or just wear over the decades - are one of the most common reasons patients seek out veneers. The fix is precise and the result is invisible.
When two front teeth don't quite meet, or when there's a wider space that's bothered you for a lifetime, veneers can close the gap cosmetically without orthodontics. For patients who don't want to spend a year in aligners, this is often the right answer.
Some discoloration responds to whitening. Some doesn't - particularly tetracycline staining, deep enamel discoloration, or the gray cast that can set in after a root canal. When whitening hits its limit, veneers reset the canvas entirely.
Teeth that are unusually small, pointed, or worn down can be reshaped and lengthened with veneers in a way that looks natural and proportional.
Slightly turned, overlapping, or uneven teeth can be visually straightened with veneers - a faster path than orthodontics when the underlying bite is healthy.
For patients who want a comprehensive change, a coordinated set of veneers across the visible smile is the foundation of a true smile makeover.
A veneers case starts with a design, not a drill. This is the part most patients don't realize, and it's the part that separates good veneers work from forgettable veneers work.
We sit down with you, talk through what you've been thinking, look at your teeth, and ask the right questions. What bothers you? What have you tried? What do you want people to notice about your smile - and what do you want them not to notice?
Using photos and 3D imaging of your teeth, we design the proposed new smile on a screen. You see it before we touch anything. Width-to-length ratios, edge shapes, midline placement, the curve of the smile line - all of it gets dialed in. This is where cosmetic smile design actually lives.
For larger cases, we can build a temporary version of your new smile so you can see and feel it before anything permanent happens. You walk out with the preview. You test-drive it for a few days. Then we refine.
When we're aligned on the final design, we minimally prepare the teeth and take a digital scan that goes to our lab. Your custom porcelain veneers are crafted to the specifications we set together - color, translucency, surface texture, edge contour.
At your final visit, we carefully fit each veneer, check the bite, polish the edges, and bond them permanently. You leave with a smile that took weeks to design and minutes to reveal.
Dr. Maryz Estedrak, family and cosmetic dentist at EverSmile Dental in Saddle Brook, NJ - a certified Invisalign Gold Provider.
479 North Midland Ave, Saddle Brook, NJ 07663
There's a particular look that's become a punchline - uniformly bright, uniformly straight, uniformly flat. The kind of smile where every tooth looks identical and the whole set seems to belong to someone other than the person it's attached to. That's what people picture when they think "celebrity smile veneers" gone wrong.
We don't do that work. Or rather - we won't, even when asked.
Natural-looking veneers have variation built in. The central front teeth are slightly longer than the laterals. The canines are a fraction more pointed. The translucency at the edges catches light differently than the bulk of the tooth. Real enamel isn't uniform, and the best veneers aren't either.
The bright-white-blinding look is a choice some people still want, and we'll have an honest conversation if that's where you're headed. But our default is the version of your smile that looks like it always could have been yours - just better. People notice you look great. They can't quite tell why.
That's the goal. Not "she got veneers." Just "she looks well-rested."
Veneers are one of the few dental procedures where the dentist's eye matters as much as their hands. Two dentists can use the same materials and produce wildly different results. Here's why patients across our area trust us as the best veneers dentist for this kind of work:
Dr. Maryz Estedrak approaches veneers as cosmetic work first and dental work second. The bite has to be right. The bond has to be precise. But the result has to look beautiful - and that's the standard we hold every case to.
We've built a practice that takes the time veneers require - full consultations, real design conversations, trial smiles for the cases that warrant them - without the pretense some high-end practices put on. You'll be treated like the only patient on the schedule because, for that hour, you are.
Digital smile design software, 3D scanning, high-definition imaging, lab partnerships that take our work seriously. We've invested in the tools that make precision possible.
For patients who've been thinking about this for years, the wait to start shouldn't be another barrier. We can often see you within the week.
Most of our cosmetic work comes through referrals from people whose smiles we've already changed. That's the kind of trust we work to keep, one patient at a time.
Cosmetic dentistry is detail work. Our promise is that we don't call the case done until you do.
A lot of patients tell us, weeks after their veneers are placed, that the change wasn't really about the teeth.
They smile in photos again. They laugh without thinking about it. They don't reach for the closed-mouth grin anymore in work headshots. They stop ducking out of family pictures. They take the call that goes to video instead of audio. Small things, but they pile up.
This is what aesthetic dentistry, done well, actually delivers. The smile is the visible part. The confidence is the part that changes everything underneath. The smile enhancement you came in for turns into something larger - a slightly different way of moving through the world.
If you've been hiding for a while, you might be surprised how quickly you stop.
Porcelain veneers, when designed and placed well, typically last 10 to 15 years or longer with proper care. They're not technically permanent in the lifetime sense, but they're permanent in the sense that the underlying tooth has been prepared - so you'll commit to having veneers (or replacements) from that point forward. Good oral hygiene, regular checkups, and a nightguard if you grind your teeth all extend their lifespan.
Not in our office. We design veneers to look like the best natural version of your own teeth, with subtle variation in shape, color, and translucency that mimics real enamel. Most patients tell us their family and coworkers can see that something is different but can't put a finger on what changed.
Often yes. A single veneer on the right tooth, color-matched precisely to its neighbors, can completely change the way your smile reads in photos. Some of our most satisfying cases are single-tooth corrections.
In many cases, yes. Veneers can visually correct minor crowding, rotation, and small gaps without orthodontics. For more significant alignment issues, we may recommend straightening first - and we'll tell you honestly which path makes more sense for your specific situation.
A veneer covers only the front surface of the tooth. A crown covers the entire tooth. Veneers are used for cosmetic enhancement on otherwise healthy teeth. Crowns are used when a tooth has structural damage that needs full coverage. For most cosmetic concerns, veneers are the more conservative and aesthetic option.
; ; ;A decades of experience flying, thinks he may have found an image of Amelia Earhart’s lost plane via Google Earth.Justin Myers told Popular Mechanics recently that he began looking through satellite images of Nikumaroro Island after watching a documentary on her final flight."To be totally honest, my interest started after watching a documentary on the National Geographic Channel. It was the next day when curiosity about Nikumaroro Island took me to looking on ."When first looking at images of...
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A decades of experience flying, thinks he may have found an image of Amelia Earhart’s lost plane via Google Earth.
Justin Myers told Popular Mechanics recently that he began looking through satellite images of Nikumaroro Island after watching a documentary on her final flight.
"To be totally honest, my interest started after watching a documentary on the National Geographic Channel. It was the next day when curiosity about Nikumaroro Island took me to looking on ."
When first looking at images of Nikumaroro, an uninhabited coral atoll in the Pacific, Myers said he wasn’t trying to find the Lockheed Electra 10E. "I was just putting myself in Amelia and [her navigator] Fred’s shoes."
But then he tried to imagine, as a pilot, "where I would have force landed a light twin aircraft in their position, lost and low on fuel."
Once he zoomed into an area that he thought they might have tried to land, he noticed a "dark-coloured, perfectly straight object" that measured approximately 39 feet, the same as Earhart’s plane.
"I used the measuring tool on Google Earth and to my surprise and mild little shiver it measured approximately 39 ft," he wrote in a blog post.
"It looked man-made," he told Popular Mechanics. "It looked like a section of aircraft fuselage, that was remarkable by itself, let alone the possibility it was Electra 10E NR16020, even though the measurements looked the same."
Earhart was attempting to become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe in 1937 when she and her navigator lost radio contact on July 2 while attempting to land on Howland Island in the Pacific, north of Nikumaroro.
Neither the pair nor their plane have ever been found, sparking nearly a century of professional and amateur investigators to attempt to figure out what happened to them.
Myers said as he continued to look at the satellite imagery, he thought he saw more plane debris, thinking he might have gotten lucky with his sighting.
"There was an element of luck in spotting that aircraft debris, as Mother Nature had revealed what had been buried on the reef for a long time," he said. "I managed to catch some photos before being covered over again by passing weather systems."
Myers wrote in his blog that he attempted to contact several agencies with his findings, but was largely ignored.
The National Transportation Safety Board said the island wasn’t their jurisdiction, so he filed a report with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau but never heard anything back.
He also contacted Purdue University but never heard anything, and contacted an expedition company in the state, but said he hasn’t heard back from them in a while.
Myers is hardly the first person to believe they figured out the mystery of the aviators’ disappearance.
Last year, Purdue announced its own expedition to research the Taraia Object, a visual anomaly also on Nikumaroro that some think could be the plane’s wreckage.
The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery also believes that Nikumaroro is where Earhart went down, based on a huge body of evidence and a dozen visits to the island between 1989 and 2019, according to Archaeologychannel.org.
Tony Romeo, a former Air Force intelligence officer and CEO of Deep Sea Vision, made news a couple of years ago after sonar images from a 2023 expedition showed what looked like a plane on the seafloor near Howland.
But it was soon discovered to just be a natural rock formation with plane-like features.
Still, that hasn’t deterred Myers in his findings.
"The bottom line is from my interests from a child in vintage aircraft and air crash investigation, I can say that is what was once a 12-metre, 2-engine vintage aircraft," he told , while adding the caveat that he’s not sure it’s Earhart’s.
And even if it's not the famed pilot’s plane, "then it’s the that has never been answered. This finding could answer some questions to someone who disappeared many years ago."
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Game Leaders 1 2 3 4 Final Glen Rock (13-11) 15 15 16 18 64 Parsippany (16-5) 12 15 12 5 44 Player Stats 2PT 3PT FTM FTA PTS REB AST BLK STL GP ...
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Glen Rock (13-11) | 15 | 15 | 16 | 18 | 64 |
Parsippany (16-5) | 12 | 15 | 12 | 5 | 44 |
| 2PT | 3PT | FTM | FTA | PTS | REB | AST | BLK | STL | GP | |
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| Robert Lopez | 10 | 2 | 10 | 14 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Zachary Ashkenazy | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Matt Boisits | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Daniel McCarthy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Charles Garrett | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Felix Taylor | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Quinn Reardon | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Aidan Schwartz | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Lucas Ashkenazy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gautam Krishnan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Zachary Kaplan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals: | 16 | 7 | 11 | 19 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
NJIC TOURNAMENT FINAL PREVIEW Thursday, Feb. 19 at Glen Rock, 4:30 p.m.2-Secaucus (17-7) vs. 1-Glen Rock (18-5)HOW THEY GOT HERESecaucusSecond-seeded Secaucus earned a bye into the semifinals, where the Patriots defeated third-seeded Midland Park 40-27.Glen RockTop-seeded Glen Rock earned a bye into the semifinals and defeated fifth-seeded Dwight-Englewood 60-23.PREVIOUS MEETINGGlen Rock and Secaucus meet for the first time since 2022, when Glen ...
Thursday, Feb. 19 at Glen Rock, 4:30 p.m.
2-Secaucus (17-7) vs. 1-Glen Rock (18-5)
Secaucus
Second-seeded Secaucus earned a bye into the semifinals, where the Patriots defeated third-seeded Midland Park 40-27.
Glen Rock
Top-seeded Glen Rock earned a bye into the semifinals and defeated fifth-seeded Dwight-Englewood 60-23.
Glen Rock and Secaucus meet for the first time since 2022, when Glen Rock defeated the Patriots 43-29.
Secaucus
Secaucus has won three titles in the past seven years, 2018, 2020 and 2024.
Glen Rock
Glen Rock won its first title in program history last season.
Secaucus
Glen Rock
Rely on experience
This is Glen Rock’s second-straight final after winning its first title last season. The Panthers have five players in Mia Vergel de Dios, Ana Landreau, Anna Heuss, Abby Grove and Isabella Flaccavento that played in last year’s final and will bring that experience into this year’s final. Secaucus has won three tournament titles, but hasn’t played in a final since 2024. The Patriots know what it takes to play in these games though, as they are also through to the Hudson County Tournament semifinals as the No. 6 seed.
Spread the ball and rebound
Both Secaucus and Glen Rock have a main scoring threat in Ava Illuzzi and Mia Vergel de Dios, respectively, but both teams also have other weapons offensively. Illuzzi and Vergel de Dios will likely be the main focus of the opposing defenses, so both teams will need to look to other players for an offensive spark. Glen Rock holds the edge on assists, averaging 14.6 per game compared to 11.1 per game for Secaucus, while both teams are about the same when it comes to rebounding. Secaucus is averaging 30.7 per game, while Glen Rock is pulling down 31 per game as a team.
Watch the 3
Secaucus is averaging more than six 3-pointers a game, with Ava D’Addetta, Ava Illuzzi, Londyn Oquendo and Gianna Torrillo leading the way. Glen Rock is averaging almost four a game, with Anna Heuss, Isabella Flaccavento and Mia Vergel de Dios as the main threats.
Secaucus
Brandon Crawley’s birthday brought a winning verdict years in the making.The former New York Rangers prospect, who turned 29 on Saturday, Feb. 7, was awarded $19 million by a Bergen County jury in a closely watched lawsuit against Uber Technologies, Inc., following deliberations in Superior Court in Hackensack.The case stems from a Christmas Day 2018 crash in Glen Rock, when Crawley, a graduate of Bergen Catholic who was a fourth-round draft pick by the Rangers in 2017, suffered career-ending injuries after an Uber driver...
Brandon Crawley’s birthday brought a winning verdict years in the making.
The former New York Rangers prospect, who turned 29 on Saturday, Feb. 7, was awarded $19 million by a Bergen County jury in a closely watched lawsuit against Uber Technologies, Inc., following deliberations in Superior Court in Hackensack.
The case stems from a Christmas Day 2018 crash in Glen Rock, when Crawley, a graduate of Bergen Catholic who was a fourth-round draft pick by the Rangers in 2017, suffered career-ending injuries after an Uber driver veered off the road and slammed into a utility pole, according to a lawsuit filed in October 2020 in Bergen County Superior Court. The crash occurred on South Maple Avenue in Glen Rock, where Crawley was riding as a passenger in an Uber vehicle that left the roadway and struck a utility pole, court filings say.
Jury deliberations began in late January, after a judge denied Uber’s request for summary judgment, ruling that the question of whether drivers are employees or independent contractors must be decided by a jury, according to court records.
Crawley's attorney, Jeff Varcadipane praised the verdict.
"Super proud of our entire team for helping to carry this victory home for our remarkable client, Brandon Crawley!" Varcadipane said on Facebook.
"Brandon was drafted by the NY Rangers in 2017 and immediately signed to an NHL contract, had played in many NHL games and had a huge career ahead of him when a careless Uber driver stole that from him. We are grateful to the jury for acknowledging what he lost and awarding him for a 40m career, which under NJ law is awarded after-taxes, so about half."
Crawley spent five seasons in the American Hockey League, including four seasons with the Hartford Wolf Pack, the Rangers' top minor league affiliate.
"This is the first case in NJ holding Uber liable for its drivers who the jury determined was its agent/employee," Varcadipane said. "It is also the largest jury verdict in the Country against Uber!
The firm said the case focused on Uber’s level of control over drivers, including monitoring, guidelines, vehicle standards, background checks, and its authority to deactivate drivers, despite the company’s position that drivers are independent contractors.
Crawley's legal team argued that Uber drivers qualify as employees or agents under New Jersey law, while Uber has long maintained that its drivers are independent contractors and has also argued in the case that it is not a transportation company, but rather a mobile app that connects riders with drivers.
“This horrendous experience totally changed the trajectory of my life and my career,” Crawley said. “I'm grateful to the court and to the jury for hearing this case, and I hope my experience will lead to changes that lead to greater corporate responsibility and enhanced safety for riders.”
When reached for comment, an Uber spokesperson released the following statement:
"We thank the jury for their service, though we believe the evidence presented at trial warranted a different outcome. It is important to remember this result is specific to this independent driver and is not legal precedent as to Uber, and is a decision of a jury of peers rather than a ruling from a court of law."
If you've been quietly thinking about veneers for months - or years - the only thing between you and a new smile is the consultation. Everything starts there.
We'll look at your teeth, listen to what you've been wanting, and show you what we'd design. You'll leave with a clear picture of what's possible, what it would take to get there, and whether veneers are the right path for your specific case.
Call us at (201) 773-3992 to book your veneers consultation, or schedule online whenever it's convenient. Our office in Glen Rock, NJ welcomes new cosmetic patients from surrounding communities every week - and there's a good chance we can fit you in this week.
The smile you've been quietly editing in your head? We can build it.
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