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Veneers, whitening and the cases behind them
Articles by the Sarasota Smile Design team. Timelines, materials, care and real patient cases.
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Patient Stories · Veneers
Lisa co-created her new smile
Translucent front teeth, corrected with veneers over three appointments. Lisa approved the shape before any permanent work was made, and her case ran in NewBeauty.
Veneers · Cosmetic Dentistry
How veneers work and what they fix
Five problems, one treatment. Why a shell on the front of a tooth solves chips, gaps, stains, wear and irregular shape at the same time.
Veneers
How long veneers last
Porcelain runs 10 to 15 years, composite 2 to 5. The gap is the material and how it is made, and most of what shortens either one is habit.
Cosmetic Dentistry · Veneers · Teeth Whitening
Seven reasons people choose cosmetic dentistry
Seven reasons people actually give, and the treatment each one leads to. Most arrive with one of these and leave with something smaller than they expected.
Veneers
What happens at a veneer appointment
Three stages over about a month: the consultation that decides whether veneers are realistic, the preparation and impression, then the fitting.
Veneers · Cosmetic Dentistry
What changes after veneers
Four things are different afterwards and one is not. Worth separating from the claims that get made about cosmetic dentistry generally.
Veneers
Veneer questions answered
What veneers are made of, whether they stain, whether they cause cavities, what decides the cost, and when something else would be the better treatment.
Teeth Whitening · Cosmetic Dentistry
The pros and cons of teeth whitening
The least expensive way to change how teeth look, and the only cosmetic treatment that alters nothing permanently. It is also temporary, and it does not work on everything.
Choosing a Dentist
How to choose a cosmetic dentist
Cosmetic dentistry is not reversible, so the choice of who does it matters more than for work that can be redone. What to check, and how to check it yourself.
Smile Makeovers · Gum and Oral Health
Ten habits behind a good smile
Most of what makes a smile look good costs nothing. Cleaning between the teeth, what you drink, what you quit, and what no habit can reach.
Restorative
Crowns, bridges and implants compared
A crown saves a tooth you still have. A bridge spans a gap using the teeth either side. An implant replaces a tooth that is gone. The question is which of those describes your mouth.
Restorative
What dental implants do
A post in the jaw carrying a replacement tooth. What that does which dentures cannot, what it requires, and why most people asking about implants have a tooth that can be saved.
Veneers · Teeth Whitening · Cosmetic Dentistry
Whitening or veneers
One question settles it. Are you unhappy with the color of your teeth, or with the teeth? Whitening answers the first. Only veneers answer the second.
Teeth Whitening · Cosmetic Dentistry
A whiter smile for the new year
One of the few resolutions that takes an hour rather than a year. What whitening restores, which teeth will not respond, and the habits that keep the result.
Veneers · Cosmetic Dentistry
The pros and cons of veneers
They change the front teeth more completely than anything else in cosmetic dentistry. They are also permanent, and they are not cheap. Both halves, stated plainly.
Veneers · Cosmetic Dentistry
The veneer timeline, start to finish
About a month from first appointment to final fitting, and roughly half of it is a ceramist working on your case rather than you sitting in a chair.
Veneers · Restorative
Veneers and implants compared
A veneer covers a tooth you still have. An implant replaces one you do not. Confusing the two costs people money, usually in the wrong direction.
Gum and Oral Health · Smile Makeovers · Cosmetic Dentistry
Gum contouring
Sometimes the teeth are the right size and the gum is covering them. A soft tissue laser reshapes the gum line in under an hour, and the result is permanent.
Restorative
Signs of a tooth that needs a root canal
Pain is the first sign and the one people wait out longest. What a root canal actually is, why an infected tooth does not recover on its own, and the five signs worth acting on.
Smile Makeovers · Cosmetic Dentistry · Veneers
How a smile is designed
Six measurements separate a smile that reads as natural from one that reads as dental work: edge position, midline, inclination, gum line, embrasures and proportion.
Practice and Press
How this practice works
Coffee, a massage chair, a pillow and a blanket, and digital imaging. What the office is actually like, and why it is built around the fact that nobody enjoys the dentist.
Teeth Whitening · Cosmetic Dentistry
In-office teeth whitening
About an hour in the chair, with the gums barriered and the gel on for roughly fifty minutes. What it lifts, what it will not touch, and who should not have it.
Cosmetic Dentistry · Veneers · Teeth Whitening
Which treatment fixes what
Stained, chipped, gapped, crooked, damaged or missing. Six problems, six different answers, and matching them saves money more often than it costs it.
Practice and Press · Smile Makeovers · Cosmetic Dentistry
Co-designing a smile with the patient
The patient decides what the smile should look like before the dentist decides how to build it. That order is the entire method, and it is unusual.
Restorative · Cosmetic Dentistry
What a porcelain crown is
A crown covers the whole tooth rather than its front face. Two appointments, a lab stage, a temporary in between, and a restoration that carries the bite.
Gum and Oral Health
Gum disease and how to avoid it
It starts as plaque and ends with teeth coming loose. Most people who have it do not know, because the early stage does not hurt.
Veneers · Cosmetic Dentistry
What dental veneers are
A shell of porcelain about half a millimeter thick, bonded to the front of a tooth. What it covers, what it cannot do, and what fitting one involves.
Veneers · Cosmetic Dentistry
Veneers for cracked and broken teeth
People with several chipped or cracked front teeth assume they have to be replaced. Usually they do not, and the assumption stops them asking.
Practice and Press · Veneers
The dental lab and the ceramist
A porcelain veneer is built by a ceramist, not by the dentist. What the lab needs in order to get it right, and why it is a fair question to ask any practice.
Smile Makeovers · Cosmetic Dentistry · Veneers
What a smile makeover includes
Not one treatment. A plan that combines whichever ones the case needs, worked out as a single result rather than a tooth at a time.
Cosmetic Dentistry · Veneers · Teeth Whitening
Cosmetic dentistry and age
Teeth darken, wear and chip over decades. Those are three separate problems with three separate treatments, and none of them has an age limit.
Teeth Whitening · Gum and Oral Health
White teeth and healthy teeth
Three of the most consequential dental problems change nothing about the color of a tooth. Color is not a diagnosis, and cosmetic treatment does not make it one.
Veneers · Cosmetic Dentistry
Porcelain and composite veneers compared
One is made by a ceramist in a lab. The other is shaped in the chair in a single visit. That single difference decides cost, appointments, finish and staining.
Choosing a Dentist
Warning signs in a dental office
Six signals worth acting on, starting with a dentist who will not tell you where they trained. Most of them are visible in the first twenty minutes.
Practice and Press · Choosing a Dentist
Dr. Back's training and credentials
Where she trained, what she belongs to, what she has published, and how to verify any of it yourself without taking a practice's word for it.
Cosmetic Dentistry
Cosmetic dentistry at home and abroad
Dental tourism trades a lower quoted price for uncertainty about training, and for the cost of flying back every time something needs adjusting.
Practice and Press · Veneers
Dr. Back in NewBeauty magazine
NewBeauty named Dr. Jenifer Back a featured cosmetic dentist. The feature covered how she plans a case, and the whole method is still what the practice does.
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