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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vs Crowns What Matters When Combining All-Ceramic Crowns and Veneers Treatment done to make the front teeth prettier is called dental contouring. There are two methods of dental contouring: all-ceramic crowns and veneers. An all-ceramic crown caps the entire tooth, while a veneer bonds ceramic only onto the front surface of the tooth. -
Worn & Chipped Veneer Treatment for Chipped, Worn Front Teeth Tooth aging shows up in a variety of ways. Speaking in terms of the front teeth, first the teeth gradually get shorter due to wear, and the tips become sharp or flat, so the feel of a natural tooth gradually fades. -
Gangnam Cheongdam Veneers: A Treatment Case for Protruding, Stained Teeth The case that requires the most caution when doing veneer treatment is veneers on protruding teeth. In fact, to be strictly honest, veneers for protruding teeth are not easy to recommend. -
Discolored Teeth Creating Beautiful Teeth with Minimal Veneer Tooth Reduction The purpose of veneer treatment is to make teeth beautiful. Beautiful teeth first need to look natural, and that depends on how the ceramic is handled. -
No-prep No-Prep Veneer Treatment for Black Triangles When the gum recedes between the front teeth, a black triangle appears -- the term textbooks use, and it's now widely used as professional terminology too. -
vs Bonding A Veneer Treatment Case for Teeth Previously Treated With Resin It's quite a predicament when a front tooth chips from a fall or an impact. The immediate problem, of course, is how it looks. Depending on how badly it's broken, it can also hurt. It hurts and looks bad.. in a way, it becomes an emergency situation. -
No-prep A Look at Various Before-and-After Veneer Case Photos, Part 2 In the previous piece, we looked at retreatment cases for veneers and all-ceramic crowns. In this piece, I'd like to look at before-and-after photos of a variety of veneer and all-ceramic crown treatments. -
No-prep A Look at Various Before-and-After Veneer Case Photos Doing veneer treatment over a long period, I've handled a truly large and varied number of cases. The single biggest feature of the veneers I do is that I treat with the goal of "beautiful, natural-looking teeth." -
Retreatment Sinsa Veneers: Retreating Awkward Teeth into Natural, Translucent Ones Sometimes a patient has had veneer or all-ceramic crown treatment, and the result turns out quite awkward. There are various reasons for this awkwardness — the tooth color may not look natural, the shape may differ a great deal from a natural tooth, or there may be no sense of translucency at all. -
Lifespan & Care Veneers for Large Teeth: OK Even When the Teeth Are Large Honestly, in veneer treatment, the most difficult case is when the teeth are large and the patient wants them made smaller. Making large teeth smaller is not an easy task. Sometimes it's possible, and in many cases the effect just isn't very noticeable. -
Peg Laterals Bunny Teeth Veneers, Finished Naturally As someone whose main focus is veneer treatment, I always wrestle with whether to recommend orthodontics or veneers, since either one can have the advantage. -
No-prep Feldspathic Laminate Veneers Reproducing Natural Tooth Color, Shape, and Surface Texture What are the hardest veneer cases: no-prep, severe misalignment, or protrusion? Technically, matching just 1,2 veneers to natural teeth is the most difficult. -
Choosing a Clinic Finding a Good Veneer Clinic: Beauty and a Natural Look Are the Point Veneer treatment is an esthetic treatment, so the result has to look beautiful. The sacrifice of tooth structure and the esthetic outcome need to be in balance. Reducing as little as possible or not at all, no matter what, will keep the result from looking pretty, while reducing heavily just for the sake of the result will cause problems for tooth health. -
Retreatment Veneer Redo: A Case with Severe Gum Inflammation A veneer is a treatment built on the concept of tooth contouring, meant to make teeth beautiful. Since it's a cosmetic treatment, the result needs to look beautiful. To make a tooth beautiful, the more thickness the ceramic used to make the veneer can have, the better. -
No-prep A Case of Partial No-Prep Veneers for Gapped Teeth Gaps can open up between the teeth for several reasons: teeth that are too small, a jaw that's too large for otherwise normal-sized teeth, or gaps that simply appear with age. -
Choosing a Clinic A Skilled Veneer Clinic in Seoul: Why Naturalness Matters Most Veneer treatment is done to make teeth beautiful. Beauty is largely a matter of subjective judgment. Still, there tend to be certain guidelines for what most people consider beautiful. -
Side Effects Gangnam Veneer Side Effects: The Problem of Excessive Tooth Reduction Veneers were once notorious for their side effects. On broadcast programs, some celebrities said never to get veneers, and even news outlets covered the side effects of veneers. -
Gangnam A Gangnam Clinic Known for Veneers: Treating a Protruding Front Tooth There are truly many different reasons for getting veneer treatment. The most common reason is a problem with the shape and color of the teeth. There are also quite a few congenital cases. Veneers are chosen when the tooth shape differs significantly from the typical shape, or when the tooth color is too dark. -
No-prep No-Prep Veneers for Inward-Tilted Teeth After Orthodontics Orthodontic treatment generally improves tooth alignment. But sometimes the teeth end up tilted too far inward, a condition usually called "lingually inclined" or over-retracted teeth. When teeth end up too far inward after orthodontics, they may not show much when smiling. -
Retreatment A Case of Front All-Ceramic Crown Retreatment How long do all-ceramic crowns or veneers really last? Honestly, it depends entirely on the case, and it varies so much depending on the situation. Generally speaking, an all-ceramic crown, which caps the entire tooth, compared with a veneer, which bonds thin ceramic only onto the front surface of the tooth -
vs Crowns Remaking Front Crowns with Severe Gum Inflammation The process of changing the shape of the front teeth, dental contouring, involves two methods: veneers and all-ceramic crowns. As many of you already know, a veneer is a process that bonds a thin plate onto the front surface of a tooth to make its shape or color more beautiful. -
Retreatment Veneer Redo: How to Remove Veneers with a Laser Without Tooth Damage If little tooth structure was removed during the first treatment, the burden at retreatment would be smaller. But since not many clinics treat with the concept of no-prep or micro-prep veneers, there are quite a few cases where far too much has already been removed. -
Apgujeong Apgujeong-dong Veneers: Veneers for Teeth with Gum Asymmetry The cases for Apgujeong-dong veneers are quite varied. This time, let’s look at a case where the two front teeth, that is, the central incisors, were asymmetrical. Symmetry is a very important factor in dental esthetics. -
Process Cheongdam-dong Veneers: A Treatment Process Where Precise Reduction Is Essential Veneers are a cosmetic treatment. It reshapes the teeth much like eye or nose surgery reshapes the face, which is why it’s called esthetic tooth reshaping. As with any cosmetic procedure, esthetics should never come before health.