
Originally Posted by
Emily
Lumineers are good, but more important than the brand of porceclain used (there are lots of good ones), is the dentist. Any dentist can do invisilign since most of the work is done in a lab, but with veneers, a dentist really needs to have a lot of experience.
If he doesn't prep enough, they will be too thick (think of acrylic nails....a good nail tech makes them thin and real-looking....a lazy or less experienced one will give you those huge hunks of acrylic.) They also have to be perfectly aligned or they can break easily, or worse, give you constant headaches.
There is no board certification for costmetic dentistry. Any dentist can do them and many do just because there is so much money to be made with them. I've read a bunch of horror stories on botched veneers.
There is someone shaving off your natural enamel and you can't get it back, so a lot of times it's probably too extreme. But if you want results like yesterday, have a weird shape, color and they are all jacked up (like me before I got my veneers), then maybe veneers are right for you.
okay, that's the end of my tirade. I don't even know how I got started on it, but I see people getting veneers that shouldn't (like Hilary Duff) and it's not worth it because there are huge risks.
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