What to Do If a Veneer Chips: A Clinic Skilled in Veneers Explains

Hello, I am Park Jonguk, director of Dream Dental Clinic, a clinic skilled in veneers.

After veneer treatment, retreatment can become necessary for various reasons.

One of them is chipping.

There are many reasons a veneer can chip or crack.

The most common cause is chipping or cracking from impact.

By impact, I mean

while eating or in a variety of everyday situations,

the impact from the force of the upper and lower teeth meeting,

impact from various habits,

or impact from falling or bumping into something,

impact can come from quite a variety of causes.

Veneers can also chip easily if the bond attaching them to the tooth weakens.

The bond can weaken simply because a long time has passed,

or it can weaken due to various small errors during the bonding process.

When a veneer chips for any of these various reasons,

retreatment is needed,

and if only one tooth has a problem, only that one may need to be redone,

but if several teeth are affected at once, it's better to have them all retreated together at a clinic skilled in veneers.

These are old veneers on four front teeth.

Compared to when they were first treated, the teeth have shifted quite a bit,

so the bite is no longer even.

The tooth color also looks blotchy, and because of the chipping

it looks even more like blotching than before.

Chipping can be observed on all four teeth.

As a long time has passed,

either the ceramic has reached the end of its usable life,

or the bond has likely weakened over that long period.

While retreating this patient at a clinic skilled in veneers,

we also improved the shape and color of the teeth

and decided to correct the bite as well.

Before treatment, we need to diagnose how to proceed.

A thorough diagnosis

leads to better treatment.

Next, the veneers need to be removed,

and to remove them while minimizing damage to the tooth,

laser removal needs to be used.

Please see the link below for that method.

The veneers were removed using the method above.

Perhaps because these veneers were done a long time ago,

you can see that a considerable amount of tooth was reduced.

This also shows that veneer chipping isn't closely related to the thickness of the ceramic.

More tooth reduction means a thicker ceramic layer,

but seeing cracks appear on all four teeth

shows that factors other than thickness matter more.

That's why reducing a large amount of tooth

is bad both for the health of the tooth and for the lifespan of the veneer.

Treatment was completed at a clinic skilled in veneers.

The color and translucency of the teeth

were made as close to natural teeth as possible.

Most patients who come in for veneer retreatment

want the feel of their teeth to be as natural as possible,

and especially when the existing veneers look artificial and awkward,

they often want the retreatment to look like natural teeth.

Even viewed from various angles,

the natural tooth shape, color, and translucency

were all expressed with care in the finished result.

Natural beauty

Since 2006, Dream Dental Clinic, a clinic skilled in veneers