Get the real deal on beauty treatments—real doctors, real reviews, and real photos with real results.Here's how we earn your trust.
The short answer is that you can have the best lab in the world, but without the best dentist, you may have a mediocre veneers. The way the doctor cuts the preps, determines whether your veneers will be bulky, misaligned, wrong shade, mismatched, etc. This has everything to do with the doctor an little to do with the lab. However, having a competent lab is important. I suggest shopping around online for the doctors with the best before and after photos of patients. If that doctor does fantastic work, then they are obviously using a great lab as well.I hope this helps,Dr. Sarah Thompson
Let your cosmetic dentist be your guide. If you like the work that they have done, they will explain the different labs that they use. I commonly use three labs, as veneers and the aesthetic challenges can be graded. Not everyone has the same needs and demands, so although you need a Rolls Royce level of workmanship, offering a slightly more affordable 'high-level' is still excellent for many people. Basically for labs, time-taken adds cost and level of detail, naturalness and beauty. Good luck in finding your treatment provider. Kind regardsThomas Dey, BDS, MSc
Hi:It would be very difficult for you to find out which lab is the best. The questions you can ask about the lab is, if your work is being done by a master technician and look at the quality of his work to see if you like it.Best,Dr. Maddahi
Lots of human hands involved with dental lab work. Commercial labs vs small independant labs vs in office lab or CERC 3D...it is all in the control of the dentist you choose and the dental material (porcelain or eMax or CeraSmart) they decide to utilize and characterize. It can also be limited to finances, are you paying $2,500 per veneer or $600 per veneer....small highly cosmetic labs charge the dentist a premium and dental plans would rarely cover any of that expense.
That is a difficult question to answer. There are many very skilled lab technicians who are true artists. Do your research on the dentist you are considering and ask to see before and after photos. Get the name of their lab and research them also.
I'm interested to know what kind of veneers you have. It sounds like you have resin veneers, not porcelain. I say this because it is very hard to stain porcelain veneers, because it's kind of like trying to stain your toilet bowl. Resin on the other hand, is very easy to stain. If your res...
Sorry to hear about your health issues. I've been making veneers for over thirty years and have never had any complications similar to what you describe. Let us know how it works out and what your dentist recommends.
Veneers can make crooked, overlapped teeth appear straight. The front of the protruding tooth is shaved a little and the recessed tooth is barely touched at all. That way allows veneers to be made of comparable thickness which will give equal color results.
