Dental Bonding Vs Veneers for More Natural Looking Teeth?

The art of a beautiful smile is a lot more complicated that just putting bonding or porcelain on teeth.  You probably need to redo your veneers with a more artistic dentist and dental lab.If you have veneers an do not like the appearance find a better artist.  Many people look for veneers or crowns like shopping at Target and looking for the cheapest price.  Ceramic veneers can cost the dentist under $50 in lab fees or may cost several hundred dollars. Fine art is more expensive.  I suggest you find a doctor you trust, tell them what you want and work closely with them to achieve the results you want. The first step is a diagnostic wax-uo to achieve ideal shape and position of final appearance including evaluating gum levels.This is transferred to your mouth as provisionals and can be adjusted for ideal esthetics.The next question is color, but color has multiple considerations.  Value is the "Brightness" of the restoration.  To understand think of a can of blue paint.  you can add more and more white paint to the blue and you will have whiter and brighter blue paint.Chroma is the color or hue, in the above example  blue paint.Translucency vs opaque appearance is another consideration as is natural looking incisal edge translucency.  Depending on the shade of the tooth different opaqueness may be required.You can try veneers in with non-setting try-in paste to see the effect of the cements in more translucent veneers. Yesterday, I did a single ceramic crown on a front tooth is an older gentleman.  We created a base color for the crown and then my ceramist came and custom fired stains on the crown to make it invisibly fit into the existing smile.  There is no way that could be done inexpensively.Ira L Shapira  DDS, D,ABDSM, D,AAPM, FICCMOChair, Alliance of TMD OrganizationsDelanyDentalCare.comThinkBetterLife.com

There is no question that porcelain veneers are a better option than dental bonding for that many teeth.  They should not look fake though.  A great set of veneers should look extremely natural.  They will hold their shine and will not stain.  Bonding will dull after a period of time and aesthetically does not compare to porcelain veneers.  Communicate with your dentist what you do not like and in the end you should have a fantastic result.  

Sometimes dental bonding can look good, but not often. Most of the time it is only temporary, and the bonding loses its shine, begins to discolor and chips or wears.
When porcelain veneers are done by an experienced dentist that uses a talented ceramist, they can look like beautiful natural teeth. A talented ceramist can blend many colors into the veneers so they look real, and create surface texture that mimics real teeth. They should not appear or feel bulky and last much longer than composite bonding.

We now have advanced a lot techincally and you can have a natural looking porcelain veneer or you can even get the smiles of some of your loved ones copied and done with porcelain veneers or even in composites too but porcelain veneers are more durable than any other treatment options available now

Finely made veneers trump all other restorations, including composite and your own natural teeth. It sounds to me that there was a quality issue pertaining to veneer's craftsmanship (or lack of).