Since Getting Veneers on my Front Teeth Due to Calcium Marks, Been Getting Brown Stains on the Area Around the Veneer? (photo)

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Since getting my veneers on my front teeth due to white calcium marks, I have been getting brown/dark-coloured stains on the area around the veneer. My hygienist cannot even fully remove them. Is there anything that can be done to reverse this staining? Could I remove calcium spots so I do not need the veneers any longer? The veneer stars 3/4 of the way down from the tooth. This is the second set of veneers I have had and the tooth seems to be thinner since having the veneer fitted.

Hank D. Michael, DMD · Answer

These bonded veneers are leaking.  You should talk to your dentist about replacing them.  With a good bonding technique, marginal leakage in this part of the tooth is rare.  You may be able to remove the veneer and the calcium spots without replacement of the composite veneer if the calcium spots are very superficial.

	Hank D. Michael, DMD - Sarasota Dentist

Donald L. Wilcox, DDS · Answer

From your photos you do not have porcelain veneers which do not stain.  Looks like you had direct bonding or if it was made at the lab some sort of composite restoration.  What is staining is the junction between the composite and the tooth.  Your dentist should be able to polish off the staining but due to the material and technique used it will reoccur.

Zina Kaleinikova, DDS, MS · Answer

From the picture it looks like you had chairside composite veneer done which is covering about half of your tooth. Doing this kind of restoration can be technique sensitive and if it is not idealy polished composte surface tends to adsorb pigments and that is why you can notice darkening. This kind of problem could be avoided if you would get a porcelain full surface veneer. However if you would choose to continue with composite veneer, you will need it to be re-done.

	To completely remove calcium spot is not an easy task because it sometimmes go deep and that would require removal of significant amount of tooth structure, which could lead to a weakening of the tooth structure. Your dentist should give a recommendation on how to solve this problem. Good luck!

Norman Huefner, DDS · Answer

It appears from your photos that you have had direct composite veneers, and not porcelain veneers.  What you are most likely seeing is the edge or margin where the composite filling material thins out.  The staining around the margins of composite fillings and composite veneers is something that we see more than we would like.

	If your dentist did not do any tooth preparation prior to placing the composite, then theoretically the composite veneer could be removed (drilled off), the tooth polished, and you can go back to the way they originally looked.  If the dentist prepared the tooth (i.e.did some drilling on the tooth), then that probably wouldn't work for you.

	I might suggest you get porcelain veneers that cover the entire tooth, and actually wrap around both the sides and top of the teeth.  Thus you wouldn't have any areas that would show any stain, as porcelain is highly resistant to staining.

Since Getting Veneers on my Front Teeth Due to Calcium Marks, Been Getting Brown Stains on the Area Around the Veneer? (photo)

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Since Getting Veneers on my Front Teeth Due to Calcium Marks, Been Getting Brown Stains on the Area Around the Veneer? (photo)

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Answer: Stains Around Edges of Composite Veneers

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