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Porcelain Veneers – West Hartford, CT
No Longer Feel Embarrassed About Showing Your Smile
Your smile should fill you with pride and happiness, not embarrassment. If you hide your grin behind your hand when you meet someone new because of dental imperfections, porcelain veneers in West Hartford is the perfect cosmetic treatment to boost your confidence. By concealing problems like chips, cracks, stains, and gaps, veneers can allow you to feel comfortable letting your joy and excitement show. At West Hartford Dental Group, we offer completely customized treatment plans for every patient, because we understand that no two mouths are the same. If you’d like to schedule a consultation to learn how we can improve your self-esteem and make you feel proud to smile, contact our office today!
Why Choose West Hartford Dental Group For Porcelain Veneers?
- Flexible Payment Options
- Custom-Tailored Cosmetic Treatment
- Advanced Dental Technology
What are Porcelain Veneers?
Veneers are thin, strong shells that are custom-crafted from dental porcelain. They’re specially designed to be permanently bonded to the visible surface of your teeth to conceal a wide variety of flaws. Patients often choose this cosmetic treatment because it’s a comprehensive and long-lasting solution. Whether you’re looking to correct one damaged tooth that distracts from your entire smile, or you would like to remodel the entirety of your grin, porcelain veneers can do it all. The shells themselves are custom-shaded to look and feel like your natural teeth as well, so nobody will be able to tell the difference!
Are You a Good Candidate for Porcelain Veneers?
To find out if porcelain veneers are a good cosmetic treatment for you, be sure to schedule a consultation. Our cosmetic dentist in West Hartford will inspect your teeth and gums to see what problems you’re dealing with and whether veneers could help. Patients who are considered good candidates for the procedures are usually looking to fix:
- Cracks and chips in teeth.
- Gaps between teeth.
- Misshapen teeth.
- Stained or discolored teeth.
- Slightly misaligned teeth.
What is the Process of Getting Porcelain Veneers?
Once you’ve completed your consultation and have decided that porcelain veneers can help you achieve your smile goals, our experienced cosmetic dentist will remove a small portion of your natural enamel to compensate for the thickness of your veneers. We will then take impressions of the teeth that you’d like to have repaired to send off to our dental laboratory. Once we receive your custom-made veneers, we’ll schedule your last appointment to permanently bond them in place and make sure they look completely natural.
How Should You Take Care of Your Veneers?
Having porcelain veneers is just like having your natural teeth, except your veneers are made of stain-resistant dental porcelain. Even though they won’t discolor as quickly as your natural teeth do, it’s still important to practice good at-home dental hygiene and to visit our office for your semi-annual checkups and cleanings.
If you have any questions about how porcelain veneers can improve your smile, don’t hesitate to contact our office to speak with one of our friendly dental professionals. We’d be more than happy to help you begin your journey towards reaching your smile goals.
Veneers FAQs
Are Veneers Permanent?
In truth, veneers aren’t permanent – they tend to last anywhere from 10-15 years or so. Even those with the longest lifespans have to be replaced eventually. Still, placing these shells is an irreversible process.
The truth is that teeth must be “prepped” to receive veneers. Before starting the treatment, a dentist files away bits of their enamel to make room for the shells. This enamel won’t grow back, so teeth prepped this way will always need veneers going forward.
All that said, the veneer process won’t weaken your teeth. The shells compensate for your lost enamel and protect your smile from harmful debris.
Can Veneers Be Used for Bite Corrections?
Technically, veneers can’t change the actual position of your teeth or jaws. Their core effect is to make your smile look more pleasing to the eye. However, they can treat some bite problems depending on the patient.
In particular, veneers often work as a solution for minor bite corrections. A patient with an open bite can use them to make their teeth look longer and wider. Similarly, veneers could help someone hide a small diastema (i.e., a gap between the teeth).
Of course, dentists only place veneers for bite issues that don’t cause major oral health issues. They won’t use the shells to solve dental overcrowding and similar problems.
Do Veneers Change Your Face?
Veneers often do change your face once they’re placed on your teeth. Even so, you can trust that this change is a very positive one. The treatment should make your face look younger and more energetic.
You see, veneers should support your mouth’s shape and accentuate your cheekbones. These are vital effects – the mouth typically loses elasticity and muscle tone as it ages. So, your new porcelain shells will have the same perks as a facelift without any surgery. They’ll simply help your face look fuller and more vibrant than before.
For details on how veneers will affect your face shape, feel free to ask your dentist during a consultation.
Can You Whiten Veneers?
The whitening process has no cosmetic effect on veneers, even when they have stains. Changing how the shells look requires that you have them replaced or shaded.
If anything, a whitening treatment done with veneers could make your smile look worse. It’d brighten the surrounding teeth without affecting the veneered ones, making your final grin seem uneven. This kind of color contrast wouldn’t help your appearance.
Luckily, there’s a way you can make both whitening and veneers work. Just get your teeth whitened first and have your future shells color-matched to your brightened smile. That way, your whole grin would have an even and uniform shade.