Dr. Thomas Connelly has turned the cliché “million dollar smile” into reality.
In 2021, the “Father of Diamond Dentistry” — as Rolling Stone named him — reconstructed Post Malone’s smile with 18 porcelain veneers, eight platinum crowns and two six-carat diamonds replacing the singer-songwriter’s upper canines. Just diamonds.
The total cost: $1.6 million.
“Posty needed me; he had terrible teeth,” said Dr. Connelly, 51, seated comfortably on a sofa in one of his treatment rooms in his Beverly Hills office.
“We’ve learned a lot since doing Post’s mouth,” he said, adding that he and his staff of three now perform diamond dentistry almost daily, as well as fabricating prosthetics like the six-figure titanium structure that Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, revealed to the world in an Instagram story a couple of weeks ago.