Do Dental Veneers Look Fake?

Our lab technicians LOVE it when they have a patient who wants natural looking teeth.  It really let's their talents shine.  It is more difficult to duplicate natural nuances, but totally attainable.

Porcelain veneers are a great choice to enhance your smile and should look completely natural when performed correctly.  It is important for your dentist to work exclusively with a laboratory that specializes in smile makeovers. These labs are able to create amazingly natural looking veneers with anatomy, shape, and color characteristics that make them undetectable to anyone that sees them.  Find an experienced cosmetic dentist to perform this procedure and always ask to see their before and after pictures.  Hope this helps. 

Under the care of an experienced cosmetic dentist, porcelain veneers are the ideal choice for the most natural and cosmetically pleasing smile.All the best.James Asaf, DDS

They can look fake if they are not fabricated by a good dentist and good lab technician. There are several characteristics that need to be incorporated into a veneer to make it appear natural so it blends in with the rest of your smile and with your face. You need to communicate with your dentist what your goals are and you can work together to get beautiful, natural-looking results. There is no reason for them to have to look fake.

So the question is do dental
veneers look fake. Unfortunately there
are too many offices and laboratories that do produce veneers that look
fake…and people are scared about that. But it all depends on the laboratory technician, the ceramist and the
artistry of the doctor and how we prepare and design the case. In our office the main goal is to produce a
smile that looks like you were born with it, you belong to it, it belongs to
you and when you walk into a room all people can see is that you have a
gorgeous smile…not teeth. So they don’t
have to look fake, they’re not suppose to look fake it all depends on whose
doing them and how they’re produced.

Porcelain veneers can look horrible and fake, or they can look beautiful, natural and completely "real looking."  Whether your get one or the other really depends on the skill, care, judgment, experience and training of your cosmetic dentist and the dental ceramist that he uses to actually create the porcelain veneers.  There are volume discount dentists who charge $300 per veneer, and then there are a few exceptional dental artists in New York and Beverly Hills who are currently charging $2,500 to $3,000 per veneer (yeah, the movie star dentists).  You might imagine how there might be quite a difference between the results that the two different dentists might produce.  Some patients want the cheapest fix possible and are okay with compromising quality, while others want the very best, most natural and realistic porcelain veneers.  Our research shows that the majority of general dentists who don't have high expertise in cosmetic dentistry are charging $1,000-$1,200 for porcelain veneers, while the average price across the country for well made porcelain veneers by experienced cosmetic dentists is $1,400-$1,600.  Just like most things in life, you get what you pay for.  All veneers and all (cosmetic) dentists are not equal, so choose your dentist wisely if you want to avoid the fake looking dental veneers.

Porcelain veneers can be made to mimic natural teeth. The result is dependent on the skill of the technician. 

Natural looking veneers tend to cost more because the laboratory fee is higher. 

Ask to see before and after photos of cases similar to your before deciding.

Poorly made veneers give people the "fake" look.

 

 

Veneers are very technique sensitive and require a great deal of skill on the part of the dental professional and the lab technician. However, proper color selection, proper tooth contour, veneer thickness, porcelain quality and translucency can yield to very natural looking teeth. Making beautiful porcelain veneers and having them look natural is truly an art form that requires planning, diagnostic workup, before and after photos and careful understanding of the patient’s desires and expectations. Properly done veneers can look amazingly beautiful and natural and tremendously improve the esthetic appearance of teeth.

 

A properly done single or multiple veneer case should look flawless. The light reflecting properties of dental porcelain used in veneers comes very close to the properties of the natural tooth. If done by a qualified cosmetic dentist then no one should ever know you had work done.

 

 

Veneers provided by a qualified and experienced dentist will look natural and healthy. 

It is possible that done incorrectly they look fake.  We have all seen those.

Take a look at the picture in the link.  The upper 6 are veneers, and the rest are natural.