Porcelain Veneers

During your first porcelain veneers visit, we will ask you questions about what you want your smile to look like and help you understand your options. Our doctors will help you select the best color, size, and shape of veneers for your smile.

Once we have established your aesthetic goals with you, our doctors will prepare your teeth. This process involves the removal of a small amount of enamel from the front of your teeth to make room for your veneers. Next, we will take detailed impressions of your teeth. These impressions, along with photographs and detailed instructions on shading, size, and shape, will be sent to our dental laboratory, where master ceramists will make your veneers.

We will provide you with a set of temporary veneers to wear while your permanent ones are created.

Within a few weeks, you will return to our office to have your veneers applied. We will check each veneer against your teeth to ensure they will fit snuggly and that they are in line with the aesthetic instructions the dentist gave to our laboratory.

Porcelain Veneers Benefits

Perhaps the most important benefit porcelain veneers provide is improved self-confidence. Other benefits include:

• Veneers give your smile a totally new, uniformly beautiful look, so you no longer have to worry that others are noticing imperfections in your smile.
• Because they are made from high-quality porcelain, your veneers have exceptional resistance to breaking, chipping, and staining even more so than your natural teeth.
• Veneers can be designed and applied in as few as two visits.
• Because they are secured to the front of your natural teeth, your veneers require no special maintenance other than regular oral hygienic care.
• Your veneers can cover all of your imperfections at once versus having to undergo multiple treatments.

Porcelain Veneers Candidates

Porcelain veneers are a great option for virtually any patient with their remaining natural teeth who want a beautiful, uniform smile. Porcelain veneers are ideal for patients who have any number of the following imperfections:

• Slightly crooked teeth
• Overly spaced teeth
• Stained or discolored teeth
• Chips or cracks in teeth
• Too-small teeth
• Worn-down teeth
• Asymmetrical teeth