Cosmetic Dentists - Porcelain veneers?

fredy34

Anyone any experience of using a Cosmetic Dentist possibly porcelain veneers in Belfast or maybe going further afield to get someone to do it?

Ive found
Cranmore dentistry
http://www.cosmeticdentistrybelfast.co.uk/home.html

Braden Dental care
http://www.bradendentalcare.co.uk/

and
lisburn road dental and implant care
http://www.lisburnroaddental.com/site/home.aspx

but i dont know anything about them!

anyone?

Thanks

leftieM

Check out Gental Dental Care on the Lisburn Road. They are very experienced.

Teerah

Have you asked your own dentist?

fredy34

Teerah wrote: »

Have you asked your own dentist?

Would i not be better with a specialist?

Toothsmith

fredy34 wrote: »

Would i not be better with a specialist?

Possibly, but your own dentist would be able to refer you to somebody they trust to do it well.

System

I hope you don't mind me asking a question on this thread too.

I too have considered getting some cosmetic work done but have seen people who have had caps (?) or veneers fitted and have ended up after a few years with what looks like a black/grey line between the top of the tooth and the gumline is this normal or is it an indication of older dental treatment technology?

Toothsmith

No dental work looks good forever.

Things stain, gums receed a bit, things crack.

If you're going to have dental work done for purely cosmetic reasons then factor in ongoing maintenance/replacement costs.

Also, be aware that with regular replacement/maintenance of cosmetic stuff, your teeth will suffer, and ultimately need a lot more treatment, and more major treatment, and more expensive treatment than if you'd left them alone.

Only you can say whether this is worth it for you - but don't believe that getting cosmetic dentistry 'done' is a one off last-a-lifetime sort of exercise. It isn't. It's a committment to a dental chair for the rest of your life.

Have a look at this clip on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUOmGG2nXrM

The second report at about 1min 20sec in is of Demi Moore releasing a picture of herself on Twitter at the dentist minus a front tooth.

How does a hollywood superstar come to have a gap in her front teeth? With such 'good' American dentistry?

Because at an eary age, she'd have had veneers, a few years later, they'd have been replaced to keep the 'perfect' look, repeat this every few years, then they'd need crowning, then root filling because of all the replacements killing them, then a root would fracture and it would need extracting, then it would be replaced with an implant.

What 'beautiful' dentistry! And they laugh at 'english' teeth!

Demi still looks like she has 'perfect' teeth,but I wonder how many are actually her own, or the same with any star over 40.

So, do you have the money of Demi Moore? Could you replace the dentistry every time it started to look less than perfect? Could you stand the added expense of getting artifical stuff put in when your natural stuff gives up the ghost?

Think long and hard.

jugglebug

Pam17 wrote: »

I hope you don't mind me asking a question on this thread too.

I too have considered getting some cosmetic work done but have seen people who have had caps (?) or veneers fitted and have ended up after a few years with what looks like a black/grey line between the top of the tooth and the gumline is this normal or is it an indication of older dental treatment technology?

some crowns are made with metal at the core, this can shine through at the margins in certain situations. especially if the brushing /f flossing isnt up to scratch as the gums can shrink exposing the join.
However all ceramic restorations can get black lines if the cementation technique isn't top notch also as the cements can discolour with age, and if care isn't taken at the earliest stage any excess can show up as dark some time down the line. new bonding systems are very sensitive to the operators technique, moisture controll etc

so on one hand it can be old tech, on the other it can be duff technique :-)

I hate crowns and veneers for the sake of it as it isn't the quick fix people think, you just dont realise it till a few years down the line.
Today I spent 15 minutes doing my best to tidy up 6 veneers done by someone else in 2005
However I dont think when they requested the treatment they said, "Please make my teeth look like chalk, and if you can make them impossible to floss by leaving ledges of glue that would be great :mad:"

Golden_Anemone

Toothsmith wrote: »

No dental work looks good forever.

Things stain, gums receed a bit, things crack.

If you're going to have dental work done for purely cosmetic reasons then factor in ongoing maintenance/replacement costs.

Also, be aware that with regular replacement/maintenance of cosmetic stuff, your teeth will suffer, and ultimately need a lot more treatment, and more major treatment, and more expensive treatment than if you'd left them alone.

Only you can say whether this is worth it for you - but don't believe that getting cosmetic dentistry 'done' is a one off last-a-lifetime sort of exercise. It isn't. It's a committment to a dental chair for the rest of your life.

Just to lend some personal experience to Toothsmith here. I was persuaded by my dentist to have 2 porcelain veneers fitted to deal with very minor gapping in the teeth beside my very front upper teeth 19 years ago when my eldest was under a year. At the time these were free under the NHS. Now, I'm nearly 20 years older and my gums have receded a little, and I'm not sure the gaps above them don't look worse close up than the tiny gaps between my teeth did without them.

I'm a tea drinker and they do stain. If you're a smoker they will stain and your gums will be more likely to recede.

Golden_Anemone

Pam17 wrote: »

I hope you don't mind me asking a question on this thread too.

I too have considered getting some cosmetic work done but have seen people who have had caps (?) or veneers fitted and have ended up after a few years with what looks like a black/grey line between the top of the tooth and the gumline is this normal or is it an indication of older dental treatment technology?

My veneers have a tendency to stain along the line where they end and the tooth underneath is. As gums recede this line becomes visible so does any staining.

fredy34

Thanks guys some good info here. Maybe ill go into a bit more detail. My teeth are in very good condition (according to my dentist) but the are a bit wonky, they top ones are a little out of alignment, my 2 front teeth are slightly further out than the next 1 on either side, these ones are probably too far back in my mouth. Id really like them to be aligned better and i think im now realising that veneers arent a quick fix. What are my other options? are they any good?

thanks in advance.