Porcelain Veneers: Picture the Possibilities
Updated: Sep 17, 2019
Restoring a confident smile can be achieved less invasively with porcelain dental veneers from Dr. Jennifer Ebner. Crooked teeth, gaps between your teeth or heavy staining can be hidden under thin porcelain veneers without invasive dental work. In Phoenix, our dental team can provide you with the improvements you desire for your smile in a comfortable, relaxed environment.
Procelain and no prep dental veneers can improve your smile by covering dark teeth, crooked teeth and uneven teeth.
Porcelain Veneers To Brighten and Harmonize Your Smile
Dr. Ebner has several ceramic options available to fabricate veneers based on your needs and the condition of your bite. Veneers are made of strong ceramic materials that when bonded, can be beautiful and strong. Porcelain is the most popular. Her talented ceramist can mimic the color, transparency, and gloss of natural teeth. Removing a thin layer of enamel makes room for more porcelain without looking bulky. This, in turn, makes room for changes such as correcting discolored, crooked or uneven teeth. The result is an improved smile and straighter teeth that can restore confidence in your smile.
Designing Veneers is an Individualized Process
Dr. Ebner follows a distinctly thorough protocol of collecting information from each cosmetic patient during their appointment. Before a tooth is touched, a 3D representation of the proposed smile is fabricated by her talented dental lab based on your desires, the virtual smile design Dr. Ebner created and your unique bite and teeth. Brightening the smile can be enhanced with additional procedures before starting the preparation of the teeth for the porcelain, such as laser tooth whitening or take-home custom bleaching trays. Dr. Ebner uses 3D scanning technology to transfer detailed information about your teeth to the dental ceramic lab, providing the ceramist with the information needed to fabricate beautiful and natural-looking porcelain veneers. For bigger changes, a thin layer of enamel is removed and the veneer is bonded. If small changes are desired, no-prep veneers can be placed, usually without any shots or changing the tooth structure at all.
There is minimal downtime after the placement of veneers. Care must be taken to avoid hard foods that can lead to chipping of the veneers, such as crusty bread, biting fingernails or holding hard items such as sewing pins with the veneers. An occlusal night guard is necessary protection from nighttime grinding that can chip the veneers.
The great thing about designing your smile with minimally invasive porcelain veneers or no-prep veneers is the impact of the change on your smile with only two or three appointments, usually all in a month!
How To Care For Porcelain Veneers
Keeping up with your regular dental visits and cleanings will help keep your new veneers beautiful. Dr. Ebner reinforces to her cosmetic patients that brushing and flossing are the foundation of home care. The minimally invasive nature and simplicity of dental veneers make your daily oral health routine relatively the same. Good home care and regular dental checkups and cleanings will help to keep your new porcelain veneers from staining and protect the natural teeth underneath from cavities. To maximize the look of your new smile, it’s possible to combine veneers with other cosmetic treatments such as teeth whitening and laser re contouring to even the gum line.
Contact your Biltmore Dentist
Dr. Jennifer Ebner wants everyone to have the smile they desire. Call our office today to schedule a no-cost consultation and a virtual smile design. See the possibilities available with minimally invasive porcelain veneers.
