COMPOSITE VENEERS (£80/TOOTH)
We need only one visit to change your smile. No drilling, no pain, low costs. There is no risk as your natural teeth are not drilled down so the veneer can be removed. We can always adjust things next day if you don’t like it and it will last for years!
Creating veneers out of dental bonding is a technique that has been around since the 1960’s. As years and decades have passed the manufacturers of dental composite (the restorative used with tooth bonding technique) have greatly improved its characteristics, both functional and aesthetic. Without question in the hands of a skilful dentist, dental composite can be used to create beautiful and natural looking veneers for individual tooth repair or a whole set of teeth.
1) Dental veneers made using cosmetic bonding (dental composite) usually cost less than porcelain veneers. Dental composite veneers are placed in just one visit whereas porcelain veneers require two appointments (and therefore likely more of the dentist’s time). When making porcelain veneers a dentist will incur a bill from the laboratory technician who has made the veneer, whereas with tooth bonding it is the dentist who creates the veneer.
2) Dental composite veneers can be repaired if they break.
Unlike porcelain veneers, if a dental composite veneer does chip or break a dentist can usually repair it. In most cases they can probably make the repair by just patching the dental bonding in that portion of the veneer where the fracture has occurred, as opposed to replacing the entire veneer.
Although repair is easier with dental composite veneers, their need for maintenance might be greater than with porcelain veneers. Lying at the core of dental composite composition is a plastic. Although manufactures do add components to their composites that significantly enhance their wear resistance, wear still does occur. A person may notice that over time the outline shape of their composite veneer has changed (especially on its biting edge) due to wear. In comparison porcelain is relatively more wear resistant, and therefore one would expect a porcelain veneer to hold its original outline form better over the long term.