Veneers are an easy way to boost confidence about the appearance of your smile. Veneers are essentially an external cover for your teeth that mimics the appearance of straight, proportional white teeth. Usually, they are only applied to the parts of your teeth that people see when you’re talking or smiling.

This procedure can be direct or indirect. For the direct technique, we place something called composite resin, a mixture of plastic and glass-like materials, on the outside of the tooth. This method is referred to as “bonding.” Alternately, the indirect technique is to create porcelain veneers. That technique will require two appointments because the veneers will be sent away to a dental laboratory. At your first appointment, we will prepare your teeth, take impressions, and also supply a temporary covering for your teeth while you wait for your veneers to return from the laboratory. Your veneers are then sent to a laboratory to be completed. These will come back from the lab in two to three weeks, at which point we’ll remove the temporaries and bond the porcelain veneers to your teeth.

There’s no need to worry about tooth sensitivity or damage when you decide to get veneers. Our dentists alter very little tooth structure (usually about the thickness of a contact lens) and patients experience little to no sensitivity after treatment.