We use our smile for many things, such as eating and chewing. Because of this, the components of a smile can begin to experience wear and thus have an increased vulnerability to possible damage. Luckily, with today’s advancements in aesthetic dental care, treatment techniques such as veneers can significantly help restore the uniformity and beauty to your smile.
Below we discuss how these thin, yet reliable shells may benefit you.
What Exactly Are Veneers?
Veneers are thin, yet durable covers bonded to the front surface of your teeth. They are typically made of high-quality porcelain, so they help maintain a natural appearance as much as possible.
Veneers are custom-crafted to the contour of your specific smile and are bonded to the tooth’s original enamel. This part of treatment typically takes several in-office procedures to complete.
The Many Advantages of Porcelain Veneers
Veneers can be used for a multitude of dental imperfections, including surface stains or discoloration, chips or cracks, gaps, and crooked or misshapen teeth. These ceramic shells are almost as strong as natural tooth enamel, and they can help maintain a beautiful smile for many years to come.
Along with treating a variety of smile limitations, veneers can also:
Enhance Your Smile Easily and Discreetly – Years of consuming highly-pigmented foods, drinking coffee, and smoking cigarettes eventually take their toll on your teeth, leading to discolored enamel. Although surface stains can be lightened at home or by your dentist, the results are typically not permanent.
Dental veneers are highly-praised for their resistance to discoloration. With these porcelain covers, you won't have to worry about undergoing continual whitening treatments. Additionally, patients have the benefit of their ceramic shells blending discreetly with the rest of their natural smile.
Address A Variety of Aesthetic Issues – a misaligned smile can often require braces or other forms of orthodontic treatment. However, crooked teeth, gaps, and spaces can sometimes be corrected with the help of veneers. While veneers cannot change teeth’s positioning, they can camouflage minor orthodontic complications.
It is also important to note that veneers cannot always replace necessary alignment treatment; but, your dentist may be able to recommend veneers as a means to unify your smile.
Help Restore Natural Beauty by Helping Keep Teeth Intact – Other aesthetic procedures may call for more invasive techniques than veneers, sometimes requiring tooth replacement or preparation. With dental veneers, you can have a bright, radiant smile while protecting your natural teeth as much as possible.
Keep in mind, however, that veneer treatment does require a small amount of enamel to be altered, but the integrity of each tooth will typically remain untouched.
At Orchard Dental Care, Dr. Elizabeth Polanski and Dr. Martin Szczutkowski, along with our dedicated Etobicoke team, want to help you and your loved ones achieve the symmetrical smile of your dreams. Contact us today for more information!