How to Care for Dental Veneers
Dental veneers can completely transform your smile and keep it looking great for years to come. Here’s how to take care of your veneers so they last as long as possible!
Dental Veneers
Veneers can give you a straight, white, beautiful smile you can feel proud to share with the world. If you’re looking for natural-looking veneers in Santa Rosa, you’ve come to the right place.
Porcelain Veneers in Santa Rosa
What Teeth Issues Can Veneers Fix?
Veneers can correct a wide range of aesthetic issues. They can bring balance and harmony to your smile by improving the size, shape, proportions, and shade of one or more teeth.
Can Veneers Improve the Health of Your Smile?
In some cases, porcelain veneers can help to protect weakened teeth and support your natural enamel. This is especially helpful if you have acid erosion or thin teeth that are prone to chipping.
What Are Prepless Veneers?
Our office has advanced digital scanners that enable us to create no prep veneers. These veneers come with the advantage of matching up to your existing tooth and don’t require the removal of any enamel.
Is Your Smile Holding You Back?
Feeling confident in your smile can completely change how you interact with the world. Imagine showing your full smile in photos with loved ones, speaking with confidence in professional settings, and not holding back when you laugh because of how your teeth look. Our team is proud to provide completely custom dental veneers in Santa Rosa to give you a rejuvenated smile you love to share.
Are Veneers Right for You?
Dental veneers can improve your smile by correcting several different types of issues, including:
- Chipped or cracked teeth.
- Teeth that are too thin and appear gray at the edges.
- Undersized and misshapen teeth.
- Small gaps and misalignment issues.
- Discoloration that can’t be treated with teeth whitening.
- Dental restorations that don’t match the rest of your smile.
- Root canal treated teeth that have become discolored.
- Certain types of decay and acid erosion.
What Are Dental Veneers?
Veneers are thin shells of material that cover the front surface of the teeth that show when you smile. This is a conservative and effective treatment that can create an ideal smile and stabilize types of dental health issues such as enamel erosion and decalcification.
We offer two types of veneers in Santa Rosa: porcelain and composite. Which one is best for you depends on your individual smile goals and dental health status. Our skilled team will fully explain why they recommend one or the other for your specific needs.
What Is the Process Like?
Veneers are a straightforward option that can address specific smile flaws or completely transform your smile. We make the process of getting veneers in Santa Rosa as simple as possible. Here’s what to expect from the process.
- Your consultation for veneers. Like every treatment with our team, we’ll start with a focused, personalized conversation about your needs and smile goals. We use advanced diagnostic imaging to carefully evaluate each tooth and determine whether veneers are the right approach, or if you may need a different option such as dental crowns.
- Your custom smile design. We use state-of-the-art digital design technology to craft each veneer tooth. We’ll design your new smile with consideration for the shape of your smile, how your lip lays over your teeth, your facial features, skin tone, and many other factors to create a completely natural result.
- Preparing your teeth. Depending on what type of veneers are right for your smile, we may need to gently reshape your teeth to make space for your veneers. We may be able to minimize or skip this step with prepless and composite dental veneers.
- Attaching your dental veneers. When your veneer teeth are ready, we’ll secure them in place with durable dental cement. With proper care, your gorgeous new smile should help you feel confident for years to come!
What Are the Different Types of Dental Veneers?
Veneer teeth come in several materials, each of which have their own pros and cons.
Porcelain Veneers
Porcelain veneers are made from a glass-like ceramic material, which is thin and inflexible, yet very strong. It provides a look that closely matches your natural tooth color & translucency and is stain-resistant to maintain its beauty over time. There are different types of porcelain veneers available, depending on your dental needs.
Typically, the porcelain is fused to a durable metal base. While this approach can produce a lifelike refreshed smile, newer materials look more like natural enamel and aren’t as bulky as traditional porcelain veneers.
Ceramic Veneers
While porcelain veneers have been around for decades and still prove to be an excellent option for restorations, advances in machining and dental technology have also now made it possible to create veneers with other new types of ceramic materials.
Full-ceramic veneers have translucency, shine, and luster that’s closer to natural enamel without sacrificing the quality and durability of your restorations. They’re an effective way to correct damaged enamel, bad staining or misshapen teeth.
Prepless Veneers
Prepless veneers are a modern, appealing option for many people. With traditional veneers, a small amount of the tooth surface often needs to be removed to allow for good bonding between the veneer and your tooth enamel. If enough enamel needs to be removed, you must always have the veneers or other restorations throughout your lifetime in order to protect the dentin or interior layer of the tooth.
Prepless veneers don’t require the irreversible step of enamel removal and can be done without removing any tooth structure. Prepless veneers are still made of thin porcelain or other ceramics, and applied to the surface of the teeth, but the bonding process does not require any structural removal in most cases.
There are exceptions when your dentist is working to correct misshapen teeth, as sometimes a new shape is needed to make effective use of the veneer. But in general, prepless veneers work to strengthen teeth, improve appearance, and alter the color, size and shape of teeth.
Creating prepless veneers is possible only with modern digital scanner technology, which allows our office to take extremely accurate images of the contours of your teeth. We work with an excellent dental lab to custom-mill each prepless veneer using the best technology to ensure a perfect fit with the underlying tooth.
Composite Veneers
If you’re not sure whether or not veneers are right for you, we can craft immediate veneers with durable composite resin, the same material we use to create tooth-colored fillings.
While composite veneers don’t have the same shine or longevity as ceramic veneers, they’re a great option for young people who aren’t good candidates for permanent teeth veneers, as well as anyone who would like to try veneers before committing.
Contact Our Office Today
As always, our team will ensure you understand all your options and help you make a fully informed decision about how to get the best results for your smile goals.
All of the veneers we offer are high-quality, and which one will work best for you is an individual matter. Get in touch with our team to schedule your consultation for dental veneers in Santa Rosa to find out more about how you can enjoy a beautifully renewed smile!
Meet the Santa Rosa Dentists Dedicated to Giving Your Smile the Personalized Care It Deserves
About Dr. Austin Griffith:
Dr. Austin Griffith, DDS, is a highly skilled Santa Rosa dentist with over 13 years
practicing general dentistry. He has expertise in restorative dentistry, prosthodontics, oral surgery, TMD/TMJ treatment, and emergency care. He has also experience with Invisalign® clear aligners, implant restoration, and sleep dentistry. With a patient-centered approach, he prioritizes building trust, using humor to ease anxieties, and educating patients about their options.
About Dr. Stephanie Yong:
Dr. Stephanie Yong is a compassionate dentist who is passionate about helping patients
achieve healthy, confident smiles through personalized, collaborative care. She earned her
Bachelor of Arts degree from Bryn Mawr College before completing her Doctor of Dental
Medicine degree at Midwestern University College of Dental Medicine. Dr. Yong continues to
expand her clinical knowledge through continuing education, including advanced training in
exodontia at the ZimVie Institute.
About Dr. Andrew McCormick:
Dr. McCormick is no longer accepting new patients.
For 40 years, Dr. McCormick has proudly served Sonoma County residents as a skilled and dedicated dentist. In that time, he has built a team of clinicians who share the same passion and commitment to excellence to ensure his patients have the best possible care at every visit.
As he enters retirement, Dr. McCormick extends his heartfelt gratitude to his patients for their trust throughout his career.
Voted Best Dentist in Santa Rosa by Readers of Bohemian Magazine
1 of 350 Dentists Worldwide Accredited with the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry
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