PORCELAIN VENEERS

Porcelain Veneers are a very popular method of correcting and cosmetically enhancing your smile. They are successfully used to correct any of the following problems:

• Discoloured, stained white fillings on the front teeth
• Spaces between the teeth (diastemas)
• Broken or chipped teeth
• Permanently stained or discoloured teeth
• Tetracycline staining
• Mis-shaped or crooked teeth

Veneers are very thin and are bonded on the front surface of your anterior teeth. In minor cases, dentists can use composite resins (white fillings), either alone or in conjunction with Porcelain Veneers to improve the smile. These veneers are about 0.5mm in thickness but are very strong once bonded to your teeth. They have a "life like" appearance with the strength, beauty, and durability only porcelain restorations can afford.

Veneers have several advantages over crowns (caps). There is no "dark line" that is sometimes seen with older front caps. They transmit light more effectively and therefore, have a more translucent appearance giving a natural, aesthetic look. Veneers do not require the massive grinding of tooth structure that caps do, yet, they accomplish a lifelike, aesthetic result.

For many of our patients, we combine bleaching with porcelain veneers to give the optimal result and create the perfect smile. If some front teeth are already badly broken down, we can replace them with new all porcelain crowns combined with veneering and other cosmetic techniques.