Veneers, the aesthetic dental treatment that allows you to modify the shape, color, size and even the position of your teeth.
Dentistry offers different types of veneers depending on the material used for its manufacture, this will depend on the aesthetic requirements of the case. Each material and technique requires a different type of dental preparation. In some cases a previous dental grinding is necessary. This is a very discreet and minimally invasive grinding. In other cases, grinding is not necessary and the tooth remains intact under the veneers, a totally conservative option that makes the treatment reversible.
Veneers are used in dentistry to cover interdental spaces and fractures or to correct tooth shapes, enlarge teeth or even whiten them. The duration of the veneers varies according to the characteristics of the patient and the material used, although it is a treatment that remains in the long term.
Dental veneers, the procedure
The treatment with veneers requires a previous study, with a diagnostic wax-up on models to then be transferred to the patient’s mouth as planned. The preparation of the tooth is done with a minimally invasive carving in cases where it is necessary, taking impressions, placement of temporaries, ending with the direct cementation of the veneers in the mouth. The process requires mild local anesthesia but is not painful in any case.
The best for the maintenance of the veneers is a good periodontal health, it is important for it a correct and constant oral hygiene, as well as the control of possible problems of occlusion or occlusal traumas, avoiding also the overloads. In many cases the use of myorelaxation splints is advised to cushion possible stresses on the veneers.