Annie Oneonta

The Pros and Cons of Lumineers, After the Fact

No, that is true. No going back, but if your teeth are too small, they won't have to file them down really much. In fact it might be difficult but it might even be reversible in your case if you went slowly and hated it. You could start on one or two teeth on the back sides and see if it worked for you. Then no harm no foul. If I had smaller teeth, I would have had no problems really, if I hated them. They will still be small even if you have a lip lift. Is that reversible if you don't like it? I don't know, here the lumineers seem like a better choice. Did you look at my before and after? I was disgruntled for a bit but now I am glad I did it. The only thing I liked better before that matters to me, is that my teeth are a little bit too big now, but they were big to begin with. They are not as opaque either, but I can live with that. Nobody notices that but me.

If your teeth are small, I think lumineers would probably be okay for you. They will be thicker than your teeth, so know that. I know what you mean about hating your teeth. I hated how stained and naturally yellow mine were. It has been a few years now and I am finally pretty happy and glad I did it. Did you mean lip lift or gum lift? The Lumineers I think are the best deal if you have small teeth. Then the looking bigger that is inevitable, would be a good thing right?

Thanks Raj:
I have them and the did make my bottom teeth look much younger. The top ones are thicker and sort of unnatural looking, but I did try deep whitening and it really didn't do much for my teeth. My dentist did shorten my teeth and they look kind of bulky and are not as translucent as real teeth, but they don't hurt , they didn't take off much enamel off of mine at all, and they are much whiter, but not "Chicklettes", so I guess it is what it is. I did try everything to get them white, and since I was going with them on the top it seemed silly to straighten the bottom if I was getting them anyway. They aren't that bad, but I would say for most people they are not a good choice.

So Raj, are you saying that now that I have lumineers that I am just stuck? I guess that is what you are saying. I did have braces and didn't have a problem with the line-up of my teeth now or then. I did however have really yellow teeth. I had Zoom and other whitening techniques but they never really did much of anything . My teeth still looked yellow and made me look a lot older than I was. Yellow teeth look very bad on older people. So is there some other kind of whitening I could have had? My teeth had been yellow my whole life since I got my permanent teeth.

Is there a way to make them sharper? I have become used to not biting into hard things anymore, so that isn't a problem and I don't eat wheat at all so no loss on the baguette. fruit was the problem I had, apples mainly but with the drought after the frost, I don't guess that will be a problem this year. I eat other fruit with no problem/s (berries, melons, ripe soft pears, tomatoes, avocados, celery and carrots, all no problem. So, if I am stuck, I guess I will live. My teeth were shortened before they were put on the last time because they were so long that the lumineers were bothering my lip so no really going back for me. Oh well.

I still am glad that my teeth are not yellow and I am also glad that they did widen my smile out a but on the sides. Over all I wouldn't have done it if I had thought that i could have whitened without Lumineers. But if the only way to whiten was Lumineers, Now after seeing the teeth of others my age (60s, 70s) I do get grossed out by how yellowed they are and how they look like thin yellow tissue paper. I knew a friend years ago who was a wonderful woman.She was smart, and well read, and interesting and a really nice person. She had awful yellow, nearly gray at some parts teeth. It was really distracting. I know that is a shallow thing to say, and I never would have said it if she were still alive, but she was part of my motivation for losing the yellow teeth. Mine don't look perfect. They do look kind of bulky and are less translucent and shiny than real untreated teeth. But I have to say when i see pictures of myself (candid shots ) before and after, I really notice the yellow on my old smile and don't miss that at all.

I am getting more used to my Lumineers and I don't hate them anymore. I have learned how to bite into stuff, it is just a little more difficult . But I have to say that I had yellow teeth my whole life. always, even as a kid and I always hated them. I tried zoom, I tried a few other whitening techniques and they never made my teeth anything more than a little bit less yellow, and even if I drank coffee with a straw and stopped eating berries which I love, they always went back to stained yellow. Now I have had the Lumineers for a while and they are a tiny bit darker than they were when new, but they are still white. (not chicklette white) but white. I just went to a funeral where there were lots of people my age, and yes my teeth look lumineer-y but when I smile, it is really noticeable that they are NOT yellow. This might seem like no big deal, but it makes me look a little bit younger than the other people. Yellow teeth to the extent that mine were yellow, really make you look old, in a way that kind of looks like having one foot in the grave. I would ask Ram Kumar, if now that I have Lumineers am I just stuck with them? Is there any other thing I could do that would be less bulky? My teeth are still strong. My lower teeth had been very crooked and now the lumineers make them look straight. No, they are not perfect, they have drawbacks, they are bulky and opaque more than translucent, biting on an apple has to be done in bigger bites with the back of the teeth, but when I see a picture and I am the only one without yellow teeth, I feel okay about it.