Dental Veneers
Dr. Stewart uses dental veneers to create a bright, white smile with beautifully aligned, shapely teeth. Veneers can replace chipped, uneven, or spaced teeth. The translucent ceramic quality of today's veneers provides a natural-looking and bright smile. Dental veneers can improve the look of your teeth regardless of what causes unattractiveness. Veneers improve the following conditions:
- Over time, the enamel – the hard, white substance covering your teeth — may become worn, dull and discolored.
- Older teeth are more likely to have an uneven appearance, chips, or cracks and be worn down because of years of wear and tear.
- Certain people may be born with spacing between the teeth that grows wider as they age. Uneven teeth can result from tooth grinding.
- Some people have a genetic predisposition to the wearing of enamel. For others, the cause of enamel wear may be heavy smoking. Similarly, tea, coffee, medications (such as tetracycline), and soft drinks may have an impact on the discoloration of teeth by slowly eating away at the enamel.
Two Types of Dental Veneer Materials
Dental veneers consist of tiny, custom-designed shells of tooth-like ceramic material that, when applied like puzzle pieces over the surface of a tooth, cover worn tooth enamel, uneven tooth alignment, spacing, chips and cracks.
The most common type of material used in dental veneers is porcelain. A dental technician in a dental laboratory may fabricate porcelain veneers. Composite veneers can also be directly fabricated inside your mouth at Dr. Stewart's office. Dental veneers created in a dental laboratory are bonded to the teeth with various types of resin cement.
Dr. Stewart and the dental laboratory he uses produce porcelain veneers that will transform your teeth and your smile.