Many people visit our office because they have worn, chipped teeth and they want porcelain veneers. It is important to realize that it is usually the person's bite that causes these problems in the first place. It would be easy enough to put porcelain veneers on these teeth as they are. In fact, Lumineers has an entire campaign devoted to promoting placing porcelain veneers without doing anything to the underlying teeth.
The risk involved in placing porcelain veneers without considering the underlying bite problem is that the new
porcelain veneers are likely to chip, wear, or break in the same way that the teeth were damaged.
Here is a case where the patient had damaged 2 out of her 4 front teeth. Rather than just covering the front part of the tooth with porcelain, we corrected her traumatic bite in the process. Now this patient can look forward to many years of a beautiful all new smile.
Labels: cosmetic dentistry, Lumineers, porcelain veneers
