What Is a Laminate Veneer?
When the teeth are discolored, or especially malformed, laminate veneers provide an excellent cosmetic solution.
This modality involves bonding specially prepared wafer-thin shells of porcelain veneers onto the teeth so as to create a cosmetic improvement for unattractive front teeth. Thanks to their solid structures and non-fading colors, laminate veneers are adequate in most cases to ensure a natural function and look for teeth. With veneers, you can smile confidently! Made of porcelain, these veneers are hard and thin structures. They are break-resistant. They can be crafted and bonded onto existing teeth with high harmony and accuracy. A porcelain veneer is bonded permanently onto a tooth’s surface using a special resin (an adhesive intermediary substance). An excellent fusion is obtained at the end of the procedure.
When Are Veneers Used?
They can be used to eliminate discolorations or stains on teeth or to restore poorly shaped teeth.
The main indications can be summarized as follows:
- Discolorations, excessive stains caused by antibiotic use, fluorosis, and other factors, as well as genetic deformations and discolorations that cannot be removed through whitening.
Treatment of widely spaced teeth (closing diastema)
- Repairing cracked or eroded teeth
- Repair of previously deformed and discolored fillings
- It can offer a nearly perfect cosmetic solution for misaligned and curved teeth.
Who Can Benefit From Veneer Treatment?
Almost everyone! All people in all age groups who are complaining of the above-mentioned conditions can benefit from the application of laminate veneers. It is not recommended for patients with advanced periodontal disease.
The Benefits of Veneers
When you can’t smile confidently because of tooth decay, abrasion, cracks, or structural anomalies, it is possible through this treatment to provide your teeth with a natural look. While fillings and crowns were the only solutions to correct such unfavorable conditions in the past, new treatment modalities such as laminate veneers are now available.
The advantages of this new modality are as follows:
- A healthy and natural look is ensured through a minor intervention.
- Only a small niche the size of a nail is opened on your tooth (which is not always required).
- Is less time-consuming than alternative procedures.
- Veneers are made of materials that are strong, resistant, and non-fading.
Are Laminate Veneers Long-Lasting And Resistant?
Laminate veneers can be used trouble-free for a very long time (20 to 25 years) if good oral hygiene is maintained.
They are made of stain-and abrasion-resistant porcelain. In order to prolong their lifespan, it is recommended to keep up good daily care and abstain from chewing on hard food substances.
ADHESIVE RESTORATION (BONDING)
An adhesive restoration is a tooth-coloured filling material that is bonded to the remaining tooth to reform the tooth's form and function. It is used where the tooth structure has been lost due to dental decay, where the tooth did not form correctly or where trauma has resulted in partial tooth loss.
Adhesive restorations can be used in both primary and secondary dentition, as well as on both anterior and posterior teeth.The materials come in a variety of shades, individually matched in order to reproduce the tooth color and character.
Is bonding painful?
No! In most cases, there won't even be a need to sedate the tooth.
Will it look natural?
Yes! If it is made by a qualified dentist, it will look natural.
Will there be color disfiguration on the teeth that have been treated with adhesive restoration?
Bonded material mostly has the same properties as a real tooth, so they would at most change colour like a natural tooth. Blemishes caused by external factors such as cigarettes, tea, coke, coffee, etc. can be cleaned with routine medical examinations.
