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patients sometimes ask
how to make their teeth look better
one way to do that is by covering it
with a thin layer of porcelain
we call that a veneer
i also get asked what's the difference between a veneer and a crown
A veneer covers just the front it makes it look pretty
a crown goes all the way around and gives us support because the tooth might
break on us a veneer makes it look pretty a crown helps prevent fracture
i went through braces as a kid to straighten out my teeth
and i was happy with
how straight they were but i still don't like the way they looked
my front four teeth were all shorter
than the rest of my teeth they were straight but they were short
so i decided to get veneers
so i had veneers on my front four teeth
because i wanted to change the shape of my teeth
the latest type of veneers that we are very excited about is the
cerec
or
uh... computer generated veneers which allows us to
produce
a smile that is
uh... outstanding
A traditional veneer we'll make it for for you
and glue it on
and it's expensive piece of porcelain
and we hope that you're happy with it
Cerec takes us one step further
with cerec we can design your veneers
in cheap acrylic
if you're happy with them
wonderful
we take our computer
we take an image of that we copy the shape that you are happy with
and our computer generates the same shape for us
in other words cerec veneers allow us to do two things better than we did before
first we can give you your veneer the same day
we prepare your veneer
second
we could copy the shape we know you're happy with
also let's change the shade of our teeth if uh... we have yellow teeth
we want to make them more white more bright
veneers allow us to do that
if we have spacing between our teeth veeners allow us to fill in that spacing
if we have
uneven teeth maybe a
chipped a tooth with a jagged edge
a veneer allows us to get the shape and the color
that we want on that tooth