Is Shaved Teeth For Veneers Really Needed? | Dr. Alex Midtown NYC Cosmetic Dentist

Is Shaved Teeth For Veneers Really Needed?

Filing and shaving might be required for veneers to stabilize over the application procedure. Still, this can then result in permanent damage to your teeth. Generally, you may have to shave your teeth to obtain porcelain veneers, but the veneers independently would conceal all traces of dental damage that might happen.

High-Quality Porcelain Veneers Are Made To Last For Long-Term

Dentists seek to provide dental casting rental solutions, beginning with dentists discussing their choice of porcelain veneers, which is why dentists do their best to perform the fitting for surfaces well.

To revamp smiles, the veneers that dentists apply are durable: 02.-0.3mm dense or custom-made directly by dentists from in-house dental ceramists. Each ceramic veneer is highly distinctive as your dental condition is a special situation.

Dentists fit the ceramic veneers now upon your present teeth structures, making teeth bigger and denser. 0.3mm appears to be a nominal size, but for oral sensitivity or the precision of teeth biting purposes, these are a massive transition.

To prevent the thickening of your teeth by the veneers, dentists scrape off a layer of dental enamel on the teeth’ surface. During the scraping, dentists roughen the surfaces of existing teeth to mere these adhere with enough solid texture to last a long time. The procedure of scraping off the layer of teeth enamel or texturing over surfaces beneath is termed ‘tooth prep.’ Because dental enamel is a body tissue, enamel may ‘re-mineralize’ to some extent.

Still, this varies according to the area where the tooth had been prepared or if the veneer had been previously bonded.  When a veneer gets inserted into your tooth with a bonding agent, the tooth cannot re-mineralize even upon total removal. This explains why fitting veneers of premium quality through the best methods available implies that we must irreversibly alter existing body tissues.

The veneer on its own may be taken out with specialized dental instruments. However, upon bonding, no amount of preparation to the tooth enamel will be able to restore enamel surfaces– even while there are specific veneer fittings or trained dentists that refute this claim altogether.

Reversible Veneers Are Optional

Some types of veneers get marketed as reversible as these merely perform minimal attempts at etching the dental enamel necessary to provide adhesive material with a bonding surface. If this type of veneer gets removed, the rough texture that emerges from the etching may get smoothened through polishing. Your teeth may very much resemble the former appearance before fitting on veneers; however, there is still a general loss of dental enamel. As mentioned previously, due to the bonding agent applied, re-mineralization will not take place.

Several high-profile brands market these types of veneers as reversible. They provide diverse degrees of quality or customization according to prices.

Veneers Require Shaved Teeth

Reversible Veneers are less expensive than custom-made porcelain veneers. Still, these have lower capacities for customization to your teeth or your distinct facial bite, phonetics, or shape. Are veneers permanent? You are mistaken if you construe veneers as reversible or not a permanent solution. Veneers will modify your natural tooth structure for good. You cannot simply remove them if you do want them or switch veneers on a whim. Are veneers permanent? The more removable veneers are, the more you would probably seek to remove them. If you desire aesthetic, durable functioning from your porcelain veneers, you need to accept that you cannot remove them. The temporary veneers are produced from a very different material from permanent veneers, causing the temporary veneers to look much less natural compared to the permanent porcelain veneers, requiring shaved teeth.

Book Appointment