Porcelain Veneers for Straightening Your Smile

Longing for a bright, beautiful and natural smile? Porcelain veneers is the best choice for you. Course you could opt in for invisible braces in San Diego, but those will take you at least 5 years to even your crooked smile.

Porcelain veneers or dental veneers are one of the simple and beautiful cosmetic solutions for correcting stained, chipped and misaligned teeth. Porcelain veneers are sometimes also used to cover the gaps between the teeth.

Second largest city in California, San Diego has couple of really great cosmetic dentists who are experienced in treating crooked teeth. Nowadays instant orthodonts use fired porcelan veneers to even your teeth.

Porcelain veneers are wafer-thin shells of ceramic porcelain placed on the surface of the teeth, which gives you a more beautiful and natural looking smile.

Porcelain veneers is not an appropriate treatment choice for all types of teeth. There are some exceptions. Your San Diego doctor will carry out certain dental examinations and then decide whether porcelain veneers are suitable for your teeth. The teeth that are good candidates for porcelain veneers include:

• Porcelain veneers can be placed on the teeth that are naturally discolored or stained.
• They can be placed on the teeth that have previously undergone cosmetic bonding and are now discolored.
• Chipped or misaligned teeth can be corrected by bonding them with porcelain veneers. Thus it can correct minor tooth imperfections.

The teeth that are bad candidates for porcelain veneers include:

• Porcelain veneers can’t be placed on the teeth that are decayed or unhealthy.
• They can’t be placed on the teeth of a person having gum disease.
• They can’t be placed on the teeth, which have lost large amount of their structure due to the decay.
• They can’t be placed on the teeth having a little or no enamel left on their front side.

What is the Process of Placing Porcelain Veneers?

When looking for a skilled doctor south of Orange County, who can enhance your smile, make sure he will be using models before applying porcelain veneers. A wax model of how the enhanced smile will look is the precondition of a perfect cosmetic dentistry.   

Porcelain veneers are placed on the teeth in two sittings. During the first sitting, your dentist will trim your teeth by removing about 0.5 mm of the tooth enamel from the front side of the teeth. This is the place, where the porcelain veneers are to be placed.

The amount of the tooth enamel removed is same as the size of the porcelain veneer so that the original size of the teeth is retained. The dentist will then remove an impression of your teeth or create a mold, from which your porcelain veneers are made-up. Downtown San Diego and Horton Plaza area are good places to find your orthodont.

During the second sitting, porcelain veneers are placed onto the front side of the teeth. Your dentist is now able to match the color of the porcelain veneers with your surrounding teeth.

If you are willing to have porcelain veneers placed on all of your teeth, he will provide you an appropriate porcelain veneer color that will suit your teeth giving them a lustrous look. Once the fitting and color is finalized, the porcelain veneers are fixed using a special light.

Advantages of Porcelain Veneers

One of the greatest advantages of porcelain veneers is that they give your teeth a natural look. They are translucent like natural tooth enamel and therefore closely resemble natural tooth enamel. Because of this, the light striking the tooth’s surface doesn’t reflect but pass through the tooth enamel and reflects off the opaque tooth dentin lying beneath it. This gives the teeth a bright and lustrous appearance.

 Another advantage of porcelain veneers is that they are extremely stain resistant unlike other cosmetic dental bonding materials. And therefore can be used by the people who are addictive to tobacco, tea or coffee. Just thing about all the looks your new smile will attract walking down the La Jolla area or taking a break in Balboa Park.

Disadvantages of Porcelain Veneers

"Every coin has two sides", and therefore along with advantages there are some disadvantages associated with the use of porcelain veneers.

There are doctors and doctors out there. One will picture you all the positive sites of instant orthodontics with pluses and minuses, the other will only want your hard earned money. San Diego Bay and Mission Bay area were known for the fact that doctors didn’t take enough time to explain the dangers of porcelain teeth treatment. This was true in the past, today things should look OK there too.

Porcelain veneers have a possibility of breaking and falling off. Once broken or chipped they can’t be repaired. And therefore is inappropriate for the people who have the habit of biting nails or chewing pencils.

Having placed porcelain veneers is an irreversible process. Though minimum, some amount of tooth enamel is removed from the front side of the tooth. Because of this, the original appearance of the tooth is lost. Therefore you have to place porcelain veneers on it even if it falls off.

Because of the removal of tooth enamel, your teeth may become more sensitive to hot or cold foods and drinks. They may even experience tooth decay. Accidents like gum inflammation are rare. Tijuana instant orthodonts as well as San Diego doctors are avare of this. They will treat any possible gum inflamation after the treatment using latest anti-inflammatory medications. 

It is a very costly process. Porcelain veneers are very expensive and therefore can’t be affordable to everyone. They may cost about $900 to $1500 per tooth and have to be replaced after 10-15 years.

By Gayatri Haldankar
Published: 3/11/2008

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