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Keeping Your Teeth White Between Dental Visits

Taking care of your teeth might seem mundane, but without enough attention, those pearly whites of yours can easily turn tinged and stained. Sure, having your teeth cleaned every few months at your dentist's office is a great start to maintaining a beautiful smile, but it isn't enough to keep each tooth pearly white on an ongoing basis. Now, don't get me wrong – you don't have to spend an arm and a leg on professional maintenance in order to get the results you want. You can use a variety of methods at home, like creating your own whitening mouthwash, that can help to keep you teeth white between dentist visits. Hopefully, the tips and techniques offered on this blog is enough to get you the results that you're after.

Do They Remove A Lot Of Enamel For Veneers

23 April 2019
 Categories: Dentist, Blog

When getting veneers, you'll want the veneers to not make your teeth look bulky, but you'll also want to not have too much of your underlying teeth removed. If your dentist does not remove the teeth underneath, the veneers will be more bulky. Some dentists end up replacing veneers by other dentists that were prepared too aggressively with different veneers. 

Not All of Your Teeth Will Be Affected

Veneers don't necessarily have to affect all of your teeth. A common choice is to veneer only one or two. However, when you veneer eight teeth, your dentist is able to produce better results because he or she will have more flexibility with the type of shade that can be used. 

Enamel Removal Depends On Your Goals

How much of your tooth is removed is also dependent on what the veneers are being used for. If you are simply adding bulk and length to the tooth, you may be able to keep most of your enamel.

However, if the goal of the veneers is to reshape your teeth, this may require that more enamel be removed. If you are trying to remove dark and stained teeth, this may require that the porcelain be thicker so that the dark tooth can be hidden without the veneers looking chalky.

There are Upsides and Downsides to Thicker Enamel

The thicker the veneer is, the more creative the dentist can be when fixing your teeth. However, the more enamel that is left behind, the more that your veneers can bond to. Some veneers are no-prep veneers, which can be applied more quickly.

However, they can sometimes have an unnatural bump. When there is no bump, the veneers are easier to clean. Some no-prep veneers are easy to reverse, but they also will not have a bond that is as good.

Veneers Protect Your Teeth from Damage

While veneers require that some of your enamel be removed, the veneers themselves will protect your teeth by creating a protective coating in the form of the porcelain. This may make your teeth somewhat more sensitive to heat and cold, but otherwise doesn't bother your teeth.

You will not have to make any major changes to your oral hygiene regimen when you have veneers since they can be maintained alongside your regular teeth with a toothbrush and floss. They are able to handle pressure. However, you won't want to use toothpaste that is very abrasive.Visit Aaron G Birch, DDS PC for more information.