Mimimal Prep Veneers
You’ve probably heard of dental veneers, or maybe even considered getting them. Dentists sometimes suggest them as one option for disguising chipped, discolored, cracked, or broken teeth.
A dentist applies these thin shells, often made of porcelain or a composite material, to the front of your teeth to improve their appearance.
Conceal Crooked, Uneven, Gapped Or Chipped Teeth
Deliver A Natural Looking Smile
Preserve The Structure Of Your Tooth
No Tooth Preparation Required
Minimal Prep Veneers — based in Bentleigh East.
Minimal prep veneers involve slightly adjusting your teeth to fit thin sheets of porcelain over the front of your teeth.
Minimal prep veneers are made in the dental laboratory. We will first of all take impressions and scans of your teeth, send them to our lab and we will begin make your veneers out of porcelain.
Before you make any decisions on treatments, we offer free consultations, so we can assess your situation and give you your options.
Contact us for all mimimal prep veneer & full vaneer dental options.
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Minimal Prep Dental Veneers vs Porcelain Veneers
Like porcelain veneers, minimal prep veneers work in a similar fashion in so far as the veneers are placed over your natural teeth. Unlike porcelain veneers, minimal prep veneers are ultra-thin and do not require preparation for the tooth coloured shells to be bonded to your teeth. The big difference between porcelain veneers and minimal prep veneers is that there is no need to shave the tooth enamel down for the veneer to fit.
Benefits of Minimal Prep Veneers?
Improved result: Minimal-prep veneers can improve the appearance of discoloured teeth, fill in gaps, or cover up cracks or chips.
Less prep work: With regular veneers, a dentist might need to grind 1/2 millimetre of enamel off your tooth to make an impression to use for creating the veneer. That’s not necessary with mininal-prep veneers. In fact, there’s not a lot of prep work needed. In some cases, a dentist can make a digital impression of your teeth and then create the veneers and install them all on the same day.
Easy installation: Because the dentist doesn’t have to alter your teeth, the installation is a much simpler process than the process of installing traditional veneers. Additionally, this method preserves your tooth structure.
No anesthesia: Since the dentist isn’t removing any enamel from your teeth, you shouldn’t need any local anesthesia. That’s good news if you’re concerned about having a reaction or sensitivity to the anesthesia.
Long-lasting: Minimal-prep veneers can last 5 to 7 years or longer, especially if you take good care of them. Some manufacturers claim that their minimal-prep veneers can last many more years. Research suggests that this type of veneer can be a good choice for people who don’t want to put too much wear and tear on healthy teeth.
Are minimal-prep veneers reversible?
When you need a dental crown, a dentist typically has to file down and remove part of the outer layer of your tooth to prepare for the application of the crown itself. That means that your tooth has been permanently changed or altered. Even with traditional veneers, a dentist may have to do some reshaping and alter the enamel before the veneer can be bonded to your tooth. These processes aren’t considered reversible.
By comparison, minimal-prep veneers don’t require that kind of alteration to your tooth structure. Additionally, they can be removed.
They’re applied to the enamel of your teeth, so they can cause some damage to the surface of your tooth. While they’re considered reversible or semi-permanent, that doesn’t mean that your teeth might not be affected in some way by the procedure of installing (or removing) them.
Precautions and potential side effects
There are a few things you might want to consider before deciding to get minimal-prep veneers. Minimal-prep veneers might not be the best choice for you if your teeth are extensively damaged. You may need more intensive treatment to give your teeth a uniform appearance.
The same goes if your teeth are deeply discoloured or stained. Minimal-prep veneers are often more translucent than traditional veneers. You may need something more substantial than this type of very thin shell to hide the discolouration.
You’ll need to focus on oral hygiene. You’ll need to be especially vigilant about cleaning your teeth around your gum line and removing any debris or bacteria that may slip in where the veneers meet your gum line.
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