Porcelain Veneers

With porcelain dental veneers (ceramic veneers), you can get an amazing set of teeth without braces or lengthy reconstructive dental procedures.  Dental veneers can produce a dazzling smile free of gaps, chips, discolorations, and stains.  This dental restoration repairs and enables perfect proportions of your teeth to be achieved.  It used to be that you had to endure years of braces or torturous reconstructive dental work to achieve this level of aesthetic appearance.  What use to take years using complicated and painful dental procedures can now be accomplished in two visits to the dentist with porcelain veneers.  Naturally, the process of porcelain veneers is quite different from the more arduous and complex dental procedures we are familiar with for dental restoration but they have a similar objective: the restoration and/or repair of your smile and oral health!

Porcelain veneers or laminates are extremely thin sheets of porcelain that are adhered to the front of your teeth.  They are a quick and durable cosmetic fix to worn, gapped, chipped, broken, misaligned, stained, or discolored teeth.  Porcelain veneers produce a very natural appearance because they reflect light in much the same way as the natural enamel that envelops your teeth. They are ceramic and have a similar translucent property to enamel thereby making indistinguishable from real teeth.  Glass-like surface of ceramic veneers resist stains better than other cosmetic dental bonding procedures.

Aesthetic dental restoration enables you to cover teeth that have been discolored or stained effectively.  It does not matter if the discoloration or stain is due to nerve damage, dental work, tobacco, coffee, tea, and/or wine.  Laminates can usually be applied without the use of anesthesia.  However, local anesthesia is an option for people who may be highly sensitive or who may have a tendency towards dental anxiety.

• Restores Confidence
• Extremely Durable
• Requires Little or No Anesthesia
• Covers Discolorations and Stains
• Fill in Gaps Between Teeth
• Extend and Reshape Teeth
• Restore Chipped, Broken or Misshapen Teeth
• Positive Impact in Career Environment
• Accomplishable in Two Visits

Your dentist will measure and take a mold your teeth and mouth on your initial visit.  The veneer will be custom made from this mold.  On your next visit, your dentist will buff down a thin layer of the enamel on the teeth to be covered with the porcelain veneer.  This will create a smooth surface that will allow the veneer to be bonded to the teeth.  The veneer is then fitted in place over the buffed teeth.  It will take the place of the enamel.  The dentist will then be able to match the color of the porcelain veneers to the rest of your teeth.