How Dental Veneers Can Transform Your Smile

The perfect smile is largely a Hollywood myth. Certainly, some people have bright and even natural smiles, but tooth enamel is ivory rather than true white, and tooth alignment is rarely consistently straight and even. 

Yet, there are more reasons than simple vanity to pursue a transformed smile. Well-aligned teeth with few gaps perform better whether eating or speaking, and the first impression made by a bright, white smile can’t be discounted as valuable in careers and self-esteem. 

The average person likely has several dental “flaws” they’d prefer to revise. Orthodontics and Invisalign® can handle straightening and gaps, while crowns address teeth with damage or discoloration. There are also in-office teeth whitening treatments to go beyond the brightness limits of your natural tooth color. 

That’s a lot of dental work. When you’re looking for a single treatment that offers a wide-ranging ability to transform your smile, ask the team at Arya Dental about dental veneers. Saeed Mokhayeri, DDS and Hengameh Safarcherati, DDS, go beyond the functional aspects of dentistry to assure that your smile is all you want it to be. 

What are veneers? 

You might know the word “veneer” in other contexts, such as a laminate surface on a countertop, or a thin layer of high-quality wood that gives a piece of furniture a high-end appearance. 

Dental veneers are often made from porcelain or resin composites that closely mimic the appearance of natural tooth enamel. Like other veneers, they’re used primarily over visible surfaces to present the best appearance possible for your smile. 

While dental veneers excel at providing a bright and even smile, they’re about more than simply cosmetics. Let’s take a look at the veneer advantage. 

How dental veneers can transform your smile

There’s no beating the power of dental veneers for the ultimate in tooth brightness, but that’s just the most obvious of the transforming benefits they offer.

Aligning teeth

You might have minor teeth alignment issues that you live with because they’re not worth the time and expense of orthodontic care. Since we can shape veneers to fit over the surface of your teeth, we can also correct many alignment issues. 

That’s not all. We can match tooth shape and length, altering your natural attributes, if needed. Closing minor gaps improves your appearance while removing spots where food debris can collect.

Repairing damage

While your natural teeth can survive some damage, like chips or cracks, their structure could be compromised over the long term. Veneers not only hide the damage from view, they support and strengthen your teeth, protecting them now and in the future.

Whitening resistant stains

While the smile brightening effect of veneers is obvious, it’s important to understand what dental veneers can offer your white teeth under challenging circumstances. While regular chemical whitening works well on food stains and other common dulling factors, they can’t hide yellowing teeth from the erosion of natural tooth enamel with age. Veneers can.

Tetracycline staining is another hard-to-treat teeth staining challenge. Whitening bleaches don’t do much to change this type of discoloration, caused by exposure to an antibiotic. Veneers, though, conceal the problem.

The benefits of veneers add up quickly into a powerful way to transform your smile. Call or click to schedule your next visit at Arya Dental in Fullerton, California.