Porcelain Veneers near Philadelphia, PA
Leonard Tau, DMD
Zola A Makrauer, DMD
Eric Abrams, DMD
Charmen Douglas, DDS
Jeffrey A. Bellisario, DDS
Ken Cirka, DMD
Brad E. Richman, DDS
William W. Roberts, III, DMD
Alexander Fligelman, DMD
I purchased 8 veneers 4 years ago as a 24 year old. My braces as a teenager ripped off my enamel and left me with yellow circles on my white teeth. My dentist at the time sawed down my teeth in my smile line and applied bonding to the surface. The bonding required constant touch-ups, stained extremely easily, and the teeth were fragile. I was extremely embarrassed about how my teeth looked...
My original veneers were put on in 1989. I had them on the front 6 teeth. They held up pretty well, but my gums were receding a bit and my front one was crooked (never noticed until recently). My family dentist said he could do them at a fraction of the price of a cosmetic dentist so I agreed. He took impressions before and then grounded (grinded?) off the old ones and took impressions again....
When I went to my new dentist, she told me my teeth were perfect. I said they are yellow...instead of offering me a whitening procedure which she sent out in an email in August,2014, she said "Oh, I can place a paper thin material over YOUR teeth and whiten them." I laughed at the time and said I didn't want to look like "the gals on news." She said, she "could match the color of my eye...
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