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Porcelain Veneers
Porcelain Veneers are formed porcelain shells that are laminated to a tooth to create a new surface. These thin, custom-sculpted pieces of porcelain are considered by many to be the platinum standard in cosmetic dentistry. Permanently bonded to the front surface of a tooth, under the direction of an experienced cosmetic dentist, they can restore or improve position, shape and tooth color. The result can be to make a dramatic, immediate difference to one's smile and overall facial appearance.
Veneers are also wonderful for fixing common problems such as midline spaces (the gap-toothed look of the two front upper teeth) chipped, crooked, missing, discolored, malformed or improperly positioned teeth. Once only accessible to top Hollywood stars and models, veneers are now a popular way for many people to obtain the smile of their dreams.
How To Get Great Results
There is a real blend of art and science behind high-end aesthetic
dentistry. If you’ve ever seen unnatural looking dental work, you know that all porcelain enhancements are not created equal. Before making life-changing alterations to your appearance, you owe it to yourself to make sure that your cosmetic dentist has extensive training and experience in the art of smile design, which determines the colors, line angles, shapes, thickness, translucency, occlusion, and many other factors. Veneers should be custom-designed to fit your face, smile, gender and personality. Done correctly, they look and feel like real teeth. And, an important part of why you select a cosmetic dentist is his or her experience and artistry in what looks great. Computer imaging as well as before and after photos of other cases will help you decide on the style, shape and color that work best for you.
Pearly Whites
Another thing you may not realize is that the visual outcome of any dental makeover is the end result of not only the dentist, but also the ceramist who fabricates the porcelain enhancements. Like a pearl, a close look at a beautiful tooth reveals that it has many colors and layers to it, so that’s how world-class practices we make veneers. What a lot of people are surprised to learn, is that to get a beautiful replica of a natural tooth, each veneer has to be custom sculpted and hand-made by hand-staining, layering the porcelain and hand-firing each enhancement and then repeating the process up to five times. This type of artistic craftsmanship and internal effects are not achievable with a computerized machine. The end result is that each veneer is like a small sculpture - a little work
of art.
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