Not liking the look of my porcelain veneers
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009I just had six upper veneers put on. Is it normal for the two front teeth to be a different color than the teeth beside them? I was expecting them to all be the same. They look a few shades darker. Also my third tooth on the side doesn’t blend in with the teeth in the back. They’re longer and thicker. my veneered teeth appear to be larger than the teeth in the back. I don’t care for the look.
- Kathy from Pennsylvania
Kathy,
All the points you made about why you don’t like your new smile are valid. Your experience is like so many patients who have their family dentist do a new smile for them. The natural tendency of dentists, which is reinforced by dental school training, is to think that they’re the ones to decide how the teeth should look. So they make a new smile for you and as they’re standing over you ready to bond it to your teeth, they give you a quick look in the mirror while you’re upside down in the chair. Then you get home and get a good look at it and you don’t like it.
Unfortunately, fixing the problems you’re seeing is going to require having the porcelain veneers removed and completely re-done. If it’s important to you, I would ask the dentist to do that. After all, you paid for porcelain veneers to give you a beautiful smile, and I believe you’re entitled to get that result.
In our office, we make sure that the patient loves their new smile before we ever bond it on. When we’re doing cosmetic dentistry, it is done to treat the self-image of the patient. And if the patient doesn’t absolutely love the smile, the case is a failure.
Links:
Seattle Cosmetic Dentist
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