Learn How Versatile Dental Veneers Are

The benefits of dental veneers start with the fact that they are incredibly easy to clean. For most people cleaning them means that the oral health routine you have stays the same. You simply brush and floss every day. Another advantage to dental veneers, as compared to dental crowns, for example, is that they require a very small amount of your enamel to be shaved away. This is because dental veneers are a paper-thin piece of porcelain that is molded to fit your tooth, and then cemented into place for added stability. The veneers then act like the enamel they have replaced. As the demand for a less chunky, natural-looking smile has grown, the technology has improved.  We can now give you veneers that are beautiful and look exactly like your real teeth. Esthetics aside, dental veneers are also one of the most versatile tools we have to restore your smile and treat minor breaks, cracks, and chips in teeth. With dental veneers, we can correct minor bite issues and even give you a better coloring on teeth that are not responding to traditional teeth whitening.

The use of dental veneers has grown more popular because of the inherent benefits that come with using this method of curing teeth. Some of the benefits are well known, the cleaning aspect, for example, while others are not quite as common knowledge. For example, few people realize that dental veneers require very little enamel to be removed from the teeth, leaving most of your natural tooth in place. With a solution like a dental implant, you need to remove the entire tooth. Even with dental crowns, a large portion of the natural tooth is shaved away.

One of the most prominent benefits to using dental veneers is the fact that they do not restrict your eating habits at all. As long as you can do something with your teeth, chances are that you will be able to do this same thing with your dental veneers. With both, however, you should consider the potential damage of using your teeth in inappropriate manner. Teeth are not tools, and so should not be used for something like opening bags or biting your fingernails. When you eat food like an apple that is hard to bite into, you can still do this with your veneers but should take the precaution of dicing it first. This applies to anything that is particularly hard.  You should exercise caution whether you have all natural teeth or veneers.

If you do not like how broad your smile is, dental veneers can actually help you fix that. With the help of bonded porcelain and lengthening your teeth you can broaden your smile. When you have worn out teeth, this can lead to folds in the face around the nose and in the corners of the mouth. These are signs of aging. Building up the teeth, and having a broader smile, can make these wrinkles disappear completely making you look younger and more attractive.