Clinical Articles
Veneer notes written at the chairside
Questions that come up in consultations, answered with real cases. These are diagnostic notes — including the limits of the procedure — not advertising copy.
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Peg Laterals Dream Dental Clinic's Natural, Beautiful Veneers Veneers are the cosmetic tooth reshaping treatment used to improve the shape and color of the front teeth, with the advantage of being able to make teeth beautiful while removing minimal tooth structure. Removing less tooth structure means the ceramic used to make the veneer becomes considerably thinner. -
No-prep Gangnam No-Prep Veneers: Beauty With Minimal Tooth Damage Cosmetic procedures for the front teeth, aimed at making teeth beautiful, fall into two categories: all-ceramic crowns and veneers. All-ceramic crowns are used when there's a large fracture, severe discoloration, or when a tooth has become weakened after root canal treatment. -
Peg Laterals Front Teeth Veneer Treatment for Gapped Teeth and Peg Laterals Veneer treatment is a form of cosmetic tooth reshaping that makes the front teeth more attractive. Improving tooth shape sometimes requires reducing the tooth, depending on the situation, and the method that removes no tooth structure at all is called a no-prep veneer. -
Gangnam Gangnam Veneers: Natural and Harmonious to Anyone's Eye Gangnam veneers are one method of cosmetic tooth reshaping used to beautify the front teeth. Making teeth beautiful means teeth that look even and natural to anyone's eye, that suit the face shape, that look bright, and that go well with the lips and surrounding tissue so the smile itself becomes beautiful. -
vs Crowns Front Tooth Cavities: All-Ceramic Crowns Rather Than Veneers There are many reasons for treating front teeth aesthetically, but there's really only one purpose: making the teeth beautiful, through veneer or all-ceramic crown treatment. -
Retreatment Retreating Problematic Veneers and All-Ceramic Crowns Whenever I remove an all-ceramic crown or veneer that's over 10 years old, I always feel a sense of worry beforehand. Some clinics have forced veneer or all-ceramic crown treatment onto cases that should have had orthodontic treatment instead, so I find myself wondering whether this might be one of those cases. -
Black Triangles Treating Black Triangles with Veneers To solve problems with the front teeth, you need to use a material that can reproduce the color of the front teeth. Currently, tooth-colored materials fall into three categories, GI, resin, and ceramic, and while GI is close to tooth color, it's not quite right for use on the front teeth. -
Process The Process of Making Natural Handmade Veneers There are two broad methods for fabricating veneers. One is a method that's become popular recently: designed by computer and milled by a machine called a milling machine, -
Retreatment Veneer and All-Ceramic Crown Redo That Maximizes Naturalness After veneer or all-ceramic crown treatment, patients end up needing a redo for a variety of reasons. The most common one is probably veneer fracture. This can happen as the ceramic's own strength declines over time, from repeated strong forces, or from a sudden, quite strong impact… -
Front Teeth Front Veneers Pursuing Naturalness at a Sinsa-dong Dental Clinic If you've decided on front veneer treatment, there are things to consider when choosing a clinic. A proper diagnosis, clearly explained, matters most. -
Peg Laterals Veneer Treatment for Buck-Tooth-Like Protruding Teeth Over nearly 20 years of veneer treatment, the thing I've always wrestled with is the amount of tooth reduction. My constant goal is to reduce as little as possible while still achieving the most natural, beautiful veneers. -
Apgujeong Apgujeong Veneers: Dream Dental Clinic's Pursuit of a Natural Look In front-tooth cosmetic reshaping, capturing the features of a natural tooth to make veneers beautiful is a very demanding task. A natural tooth has its own distinctive three-dimensional form, with a variety of shades blending together across different parts of the tooth, and it must look bright and white while still retaining a translucent feel. -
Peg Laterals Veneer Treatment That Restores Proportion for a Peg Lateral and Protruding Front Teeth A tooth that's smaller than its normal size is called a peg lateral. It usually appears in the lateral incisors — the teeth on either side of the central front teeth. Veneers are the most widely used treatment for a peg lateral. -
No-prep Features of No-Prep and Minimal-Prep Veneers Treatment that beautifully changes the front teeth is called tooth reshaping, split into veneers bonding ceramic to the front, and all-ceramic crowns capping the whole tooth. -
Peg Laterals Malformed Teeth, Peg Laterals, and More: Front-Tooth Veneer, Bridge, and All-Ceramic Crown Treatment There are cases where an abnormal or malformed front-tooth shape calls for reshaping. These shape abnormalities take many forms, the most common being a peg lateral. -
No-prep No-Prep Veneers: How to Minimize Tooth Reduction One key factor in the long-term success of veneers is how much tooth structure is removed. Enamel is the outer layer of a tooth, and dentin lies beneath it. -
Apgujeong If You're Looking for Natural-Looking Apgujeong Veneers A front-tooth veneer beautifully improves the teeth and smile by bonding a thin Apgujeong veneer material onto the tooth surface to improve shape, color, and size. -
Retreatment Retreating Awkward One-Day Veneers into a Natural Result Most veneers these days are designed and fabricated by computer. Because a computer does the designing, it can sound like cutting-edge technology and look appealing, but in the aesthetic domain, human hands are still valued more than computers, and the same holds true in aesthetic front-tooth veneer treatment. -
Retreatment Redoing an Unnatural Front Bridge and All-Ceramic Crowns Methods of treating the front teeth can be divided into two categories: treatment mainly for esthetic purposes, and treatment to restore a lost tooth. When the purpose is esthetic, there are two methods: veneers and all-ceramic crowns. -
Retreatment Front-Tooth Veneer Retreatment for a Tooth Previously Filled with Resin When a front tooth fractures, resin filling is usually the first option for urgent treatment. Resin is a tooth-colored material that can be applied the same day. It's fairly close to the tooth's own color, but the issue is that its translucency and surface gloss differ from a real tooth. -
No-prep Minimal-Prep Veneers: Keeping Tooth Reduction to a Minimum Treatment that beautifies the front teeth is called cosmetic tooth reshaping. Just as people reshape their eyes or nose, teeth can be reshaped too, and there are two methods for this: veneers and all-ceramic crowns. -
Front Teeth Dream Dental Clinic's Front-Tooth Veneers: In Pursuit of Natural Beauty Veneer treatment changes the front teeth's shape and color while keeping reduction to a minimum. Together with the all-ceramic crown, this is called tooth reshaping. -
No-prep No-Prep Veneers Aren't Possible for Everyone There are many different reasons people get veneer treatment. Poor alignment, chipped teeth, severe wear, dark tooth color, and so on — veneer treatment is done for a wide variety of reasons. Most patients want their teeth reduced as little as possible, or want no-prep veneers. -
Front Teeth Natural, Beautiful Front Teeth Veneer Treatment The purpose of front teeth veneer treatment is to make teeth beautiful. Beauty in teeth is fairly subjective, so it's hard to say flatly which tooth shape is beautiful.