DENTAL VENEERS

Do you want to improve the appearance of a front tooth because it is dark, discoloured or badly broken down, perhaps it was broken as a child? A dental veneer is a great way to return a tooth to perfect form and function with great aesthetics.

A dental veneer is a thin piece of porcelain that is placed on the front surface of the tooth to match in with the rest of your teeth. Sometimes preparation to a tooth is required first and other times we can perform no preparation veneers – a form of Minimal Intervention Dentistry MID that we encourage. After the tooth is prepared an impression is taken and from this, our dental technicians will construct the porcelain veneer. The superior aesthetics of this material mean we can mimic tooth tissue and you would be unlikely to be able to see which tooth has been veneered.

Multiple veneers can be carried out which often happens as part of a more complex smile design and may also involve teeth straightening and contouring as well.

Dental veneers can also be placed with composite materials directly chairside and these are useful as an interim measure or if we have a younger patient and we want to mask an unsightly tooth but do not want to carry out any permennent treatment to a tooth.