Porcelain Veneers

The Art and Science of Porcelain Veneers.

Placing porcelain veneers is an art and a particularly demanding art – a dentist must be an artist to do them well. Porcelain veneers are recommended for patients who want to change the shape/ colour of their teeth, mild position changes, close a diastema (wide gap between teeth) without using metal braces and for those who want a smile make over.

Porcelain veneers are thin wafers of porcelain, about half a millimetre thick (the thickness of a fingernail) that are bonded onto the front of teeth to create a smile makeover. They are permanent, custom-shaped and require the removal of roughly 0.5 mm of the original tooth to allow space for the new veneer. Porcelain mimics tooth structure better than any other restorative material. It is harder than enamel, so it resists wear, doesn’t discolour, can last for many years and resists stains more effectively than tooth enamel.

Benefits of porcelain veneers include:

• Improve the appearance of your smile
• Whiten discoloured and stained teeth
• Cover cracks, chips and serrations
• Close gaps in the teeth
• Restore the shape of crooked teeth

For your Smile Make-Over, we do Digital Smile Designing to recreate your smile to the way you want it!

The veneers are custom made by our dental lab to match your needs before being permanently fused to the tooth enamel. Our very skilled dentists can manipulate the colour and translucency to re-create the look of any tooth. Done well, they create a beautiful result.

A full smile makeover can make a significant contribution to self-confidence – for both men and women.