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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Retreatment Naturalness Achieved Through Minimal Reduction at a Veneer Clinic The goal of veneers is to make teeth beautiful without having too great an effect on them in the process. Compared to the all-ceramic crown method, veneer treatment clearly involves far less tooth reduction. -
Front Teeth Solving Oversized Front Teeth With Veneers Having done veneer treatment for more than 17 years, there's something I always feel, which is that veneers to make large teeth smaller seem to be the most difficult. Because the very concept of veneer treatment is to minimize tooth reduction while changing the shape of the teeth, there's an advantage when the teeth need to become larger than their current size, but when they need to become smaller… -
No-prep Are No-Prep Veneers Possible for Everyone? Many people considering veneer treatment do quite a lot of research online before coming in. These days there's so much medical information available online that I often don't need to explain much myself. -
Peg Laterals Natural, Beautiful Veneer Treatment Treatment that improves the shape, color, and proportion of teeth is called dental cosmetic reshaping, with two methods: veneers and all-ceramic crowns. -
Retreatment Redoing an Inflamed Front-Tooth All-Ceramic Crown and Bridge at Our Apgujeong Clinic Whatever the reason a front tooth is lost, a prosthetic restoration is needed. Implant treatment is common these days, but until not long ago, bridges were widely used for front teeth. Front-tooth implants have their pros and cons, and from an esthetic standpoint, they are not the best method for every case. -
Retreatment Retreating an All-Ceramic Crown After the Gum Turned Dark When decay is severe or a tooth breaks, root canal treatment is needed. Despite its name, it doesn't literally treat the nerve — dentists call it endodontic treatment. -
No-prep No-Prep Veneers for Retroclined Teeth After Orthodontic Treatment Orthodontic treatment splits into extraction and non-extraction orthodontics: extraction removes small premolars to correct the bite, while non-extraction does not. -
No-prep No-Prep Veneers: From the Procedure to Aftercare The biggest worry with veneer treatment is side effects. Since it's a treatment done purely for esthetic reasons, side effects shouldn't be significant. The real side effects of veneers, over the long term, are debonding and gum inflammation. -
Front Teeth Front Teeth Veneers: Why Facial Harmony Matters Front teeth veneer treatment is an esthetic treatment. Improving the shape and color of the teeth is the first goal, but the whole direction of treatment must also harmonize with the face, and harmony with the lips, the tissue surrounding the teeth, matters a great deal as well. -
No-prep No-Prep Veneers and Veneer Redo Redoing veneers is a fairly demanding process; the plan has to be built around the reason for the redo. If a veneer came off or chipped, finding the cause matters most. -
Retreatment Unnatural, Awkward-Looking Veneers Retreated to Look Natural Looking at recent trends in veneer treatment, unnatural-looking veneers have actually been increasing rather than natural-looking ones. There's a reason for this outcome. As computer-assisted veneer fabrication has become possible, it's become cheaper in both time and long-term cost, and the fabrication process has become much simpler... -
No-prep All-Ceramic Crown Redo and No-Prep Veneers Most dental treatments have a lifespan. Since most treatments, including cavity treatment, involve reducing part of the existing tooth and filling that space with another material, the material itself has a lifespan, and so does the bond that attaches the material to the tooth. -
Retreatment Redoing an Old All-Ceramic Crown After the Gum Turned Dark from Root Canal Treatment When a tooth decays extensively or fractures and needs root canal treatment, a crown is generally required. For front teeth, not every root-canal-treated case gets a crown, but when discoloration develops after root canal treatment, all-ceramic crown treatment becomes necessary. -
Crooked Teeth What Makes a Good Veneer? I have been the director of Dream Dental Clinic near Apgujeong Station since 2006. I've done veneer treatment from the very start, so it's now been more than 17 years that I've been treating veneers in Apgujeong-dong. -
Retreatment Natural-Looking Veneer Retreatment Veneer fabrication splits into two methods. Most dental clinics today design and produce veneers using computer-aided systems, but this approach has a problem: it makes reproducing a natural-looking tooth impossible. -
Retreatment Veneer Treatment: A Variety of Veneer Cases I started my esthetics-focused dental practice in Apgujeong-dong in 2006. It's now been over 17 years. Having handled truly many cases, I too have developed a great deal over the years. Given how long I've been doing veneer treatment, I've come to handle tooth reshaping in a wide range of situations. -
Retreatment Detail-Focused Veneer and All-Ceramic Crown Retreatment Like veneers and all-ceramic crowns, most dental treatments have a limited lifespan. Unlike other body tissues, teeth cannot regenerate once damaged. -
Front Teeth Veneer Treatment: Buck Front Teeth Corrected Through Precise Diagnosis When the front teeth are large like buck teeth, orthodontic treatment alone has its limits. In most buck-tooth cases, the two central incisors are both large and protruding at the same time, two problems occurring together. -
Peg Laterals Beautifying a Peg Lateral with Front-Tooth Veneer Treatment Veneer treatment is about making the teeth beautiful; the result has to actually look beautiful. Depending on the treatment concept and fabrication method, the outcome can vary a great deal. -
No-prep Ultimate Beauty with Feldspathic Laminate Veneers There are many different materials used to make veneers. Which material is used can make an enormous difference in the result. Materials that are simple to fabricate tend to produce results with real limitations, and the process itself comes with various constraints as well. -
Front Teeth Veneer Treatment for Large, Rabbit-Like Front Teeth Veneer treatment changes the shape and color of teeth. It is a type of cosmetic reshaping treatment that addresses esthetic problems with the teeth, which is why it is called tooth reshaping. Because it is done by bonding ceramic onto the front surface of the tooth, it is quite well suited for enlarging a tooth when the current tooth is too small… -
Retreatment What to Do If a Veneer Chips: A Clinic Skilled in Veneers Explains After veneer treatment, retreatment can become necessary for various reasons, and chipping is one of them. There are many reasons a veneer can chip or crack, but the most common cause is impact. -
No-prep Balancing No-Prep and Prepped Veneers in the Same Case Veneer treatment involves all kinds of challenges, and one of them is correcting asymmetry into symmetry. Fixing asymmetry while minimizing tooth reduction, or while doing no-prep veneers, is an especially challenging treatment. -
No-prep A Range of Cases Minimizing No-Prep Veneer Side Effects Today, let's look at a variety of no-prep veneer cases. Every treatment inevitably has side effects, minor or major, whatever the treatment. Dentistry is no exception, with various treatments carrying side effects, and among them veneers are one where the side effects tend to be especially emphasized.