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 Sinsa Dental Clinic: Beautifully Correcting Buck Teeth with Front-Tooth Veneers Front-tooth veneers are one method of dental contouring that transforms teeth into a more beautiful shape. When tooth alignment is poor, orthodontic treatment is done rather than front-tooth veneers. But in situations where veneers will still be needed after orthodontic treatment, patients naturally wonder whether to go with front-tooth veneers or braces. -
Retreatment All-Ceramic Crown Retreatment and Veneer Treatment When ceramic is used to improve the shape of a tooth, it splits into two methods: all-ceramic crowns and veneers. A crown wraps around the entire tooth, so it involves a fairly large amount of reduction, while a veneer covers only the front surface of the tooth with ceramic, and in this case the tooth may or may not need to be reduced… -
Retreatment Apgujeong-dong Veneers: Redoing Unnatural Front Tooth Veneers to Look Natural Apgujeong-dong veneer treatment is treatment for esthetics. The teeth need to be beautiful after treatment. The definition of beauty is quite subjective, so it's hard to define which teeth are beautiful, but I believe the beauty I have in mind starts with naturalness. -
Discolored Teeth A Skilled Veneer Clinic: Front-Teeth Veneer Treatment for Tetracycline and Other Drug-Induced Discoloration Taking tetracycline-class antibiotics at a young age can cause permanent dark discoloration of the teeth. Beyond this, there are also cases where multiple teeth become discolored due to other medications or illnesses. -
Discolored Teeth Discolored Resin, Solved with Front-Tooth Veneers When a front tooth chips, it can be treated by directly filling it with a material called resin, or restored with ceramic through a veneer or an all-ceramic crown. Resin has the drawback of discoloring over time, but it's widely used because it's inexpensive and quick to treat. -
Front Teeth Seoul Veneers: Front Teeth Treated to a Natural Tooth Shape I started my clinic in Apgujeong-dong in 2006. It has now been more than 17 years since I began treating veneers there, and through years of change and refinement over that time, my clinic has become the Dream Dental Clinic it is today. -
No-prep Can Minimal-Prep Veneers Really Look Beautiful? Even today, many people still think minimal-prep veneers are a "bad" treatment. About a decade ago, many clinics overreached, reducing teeth heavily even in cases that were not a good indication, and the side effects were reported in the media; celebrities who had received the treatment were also linked to various reports about the side effects… -
Peg Laterals Crooked Teeth and a Peg Lateral Corrected with Front-Tooth Veneers When tooth alignment is poor, patients wonder whether to get veneers or orthodontic treatment. My personal recommendation is this: if the shape and color of the teeth are normal and only the alignment is a problem, it's better to consider orthodontic treatment first, but if there's a problem with the shape or color of the teeth, even after braces you may still need to… -
Retreatment Redoing Awkward, Artificial-Looking Front-Tooth Veneers to Look Natural Veneer treatment is one method of dental contouring for a prettier appearance. As it's become quite trendy lately, more clinics have started churning out veneers like a factory. To mass-produce veneers like a factory, the fabrication method has to be simple. -
Retreatment Front-Tooth Veneer Side Effects: Redoing Gum Inflammation One of the things people worry about with front-tooth veneer treatment is side effects. Among those side effects, gum inflammation is probably the most common. Occasional tooth sensitivity can also be seen as one of many possible side effects — with proper treatment, these side effects shouldn't normally occur. -
Retreatment All-Ceramic Crown Retreatment and Front-Tooth Veneers The esthetic role teeth play in a smile can't be overstated. A smile is completed by the teeth themselves — well-aligned, bright, beautiful, and naturally shaped. -
Front Teeth Front-Tooth Veneers at a Gangnam Veneer Clinic: Natural and Beautiful Front-tooth veneers are an esthetic treatment for more attractive teeth. Beauty is subjective, but as with eye or nose surgery, patients end up seeking a natural look. -
Front Teeth Natural, Beautiful Front Veneers It has been more than 17 years since I began treating veneers in Apgujeong. Looking back over that time at the trends in veneers, there were periods marked by excessive reduction and treatment without proper explanation, and times like now when front-tooth veneers made simply by computer became popular, among many other changes. -
Retreatment Gapped Front Teeth: Redoing Veneers When there is a gap between the front teeth, orthodontics is usually the first option — but it is not possible in every case, since it depends on the bite. -
Cavity Care Cheongdam-dong Veneers for Gum Asymmetry and Decay Between the Front Teeth Decay between the front teeth isn't common, but once it occurs it needs repeated treatment with tooth-colored resin, which discolors over time and often has to be redone. -
No-prep Treating Front-Tooth Black Triangles with No-Prep Veneers A black triangle is the triangular dark space seen between front teeth as the gums recede. This case explains how it may be treated with no-prep veneers. -
No-prep No-Prep, Minimal-Reduction Veneers: Natural, Beautiful Teeth I'm putting a lot of effort these days into showing a wide range of cases. I post this many veneer photos, yet it's still less than a tenth of the treatments we actually do. -
Peg Laterals A Clinic Known for Veneers — Treating a Peg Lateral and Oversized Teeth Naturally with Veneers When a tooth is much smaller than normal, it's called a peg lateral. It's a kind of malformed tooth. It appears most often in the lateral incisor, the tooth right next to the upper front teeth. Because a peg lateral doesn't look esthetically pleasing, it's often treated with veneers or resin bonding… -
No-prep Gapped Teeth: A No-Prep Partial Veneer Treatment Case Veneers are one of the treatments used to make teeth look better, attaching an extremely thin ceramic plate to the tooth to improve its shape and color. Depending on the tooth's condition, this may involve reducing the tooth, or it may be possible with no reduction at all. -
vs Braces Veneers: Not Awkward, Just Natural and Beautiful! What does a natural, beautiful tooth look like? To answer that, you need to know the features of a natural tooth, starting with the range of colors within a single tooth: a slightly yellow tone near the root, brightening toward the middle, with a translucent feel at the tip, all of which make a tooth look natural. -
Gangnam Cheongdam Station Veneers: A Case Treated to Be More Even and Natural Treatment that makes teeth beautiful is called tooth contouring. There are two methods of tooth contouring: veneers and all-ceramic crowns. You might think of veneers as the method that treats teeth while reducing them as little as possible. -
Retreatment All-Ceramic Crown and Veneer Redo for Gum Inflammation After Treatment Treatment using veneers or crowns to beautify teeth while correcting alignment is called dental contouring. Some clinics advertise it as though it were something different. -
No-prep No-Prep Veneers: Minimizing the Side Effects of Veneer Treatment Veneers have long been one of the most misunderstood treatments, plagued by misconceptions. In particular, around the early 2010s, a number of clinics performed veneer treatment far too aggressively while describing it with terms like "rapid orthodontics," as if it were a form of braces, which seems to have built up a lot of misunderstanding about the treatment. -
Gapped Teeth Gapped Teeth Veneer Treatment Case in Apgujeong A beautiful smile is made up of many different elements, but what matters most, in the end, are beautiful teeth. The teeth have to be beautiful for the smile to be beautiful.