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Veneers in Wilmington, DE

man with curly hair smiling l veneers wilmington Are your teeth discolored, slightly misaligned, or chipped? Do you have a gummy smile or short teeth? Dental veneers in Wilmington, DE, can help. They are one of the most versatile cosmetic restorations around, and our patients have loved their results.

Dental veneers can repair and strengthen a damaged tooth and improve your appearance by covering a discolored or misshapen tooth. You can use them like you would your own teeth because the bond is extremely strong. Your final result at ?Justison and Gladnick Family Dentistry is a more beautiful, natural-looking smile!

Dental Veneers as Part of a Smile Makeover

How do veneers work to restore the natural appearance of your tooth? The tooth is slightly etched to accept the veneers. This means we remove negligible enamel to ensure your veneers look natural and never bulky. Veneers work beautifully alone, but you can incorporate them into a full smile makeover that can include:

Professional teeth whitening
Dental bonding
Dental implants
Dental crowns
Invisalign

Benefits of Choosing Porcelain Veneers

Dental veneers offer a versatile and transformative way to enhance your smile. Here are three key benefits of choosing veneers:

Achieve a Flawless, Natural Look

Porcelain veneers are designed to mimic the appearance of natural teeth with their translucent, glass-like surface. This ensures your smile looks lustrous and healthy while concealing imperfections like discoloration, chips, or shape irregularities. Veneers provide a seamless, undetectable enhancement that helps you look and feel your best.

Durable and Stain-Resistant

Once bonded to your teeth, veneers become incredibly strong and resistant to staining from common culprits like coffee, tea, and red wine. This ensures your smile stays bright and beautiful over time without the need for frequent touch-ups, making veneers a long-lasting cosmetic solution when cared for properly.

Versatile Smile Improvement

Our cosmetic dentist can use veneers alone or as part of a complete smile makeover when combining treatments like whitening, crowns, or Invisalign for comprehensive results. Whether you want to refine minor flaws on one or two teeth or transform your entire smile, veneers provide a versatile option tailored to your cosmetic goals.

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I change the appearance of my teeth without orthodontics?

The appearance of teeth can be improved in several ways. One of them is cosmetic resin bonding. It will give you immediate results, but it may chip and stain over time and it has a limited life expectancy.

Veneers are a better option. Made from strong, durable dental porcelain, veneers are bonded securely to the fronts of your teeth for beautiful finished results. While veneers aren’t right for everybody, they can be an excellent solution to a range of common cosmetic concerns, including:

Wide spaces between the teeth
Chipped or broken teeth
Stained or discolored teeth
Uneven or crooked teeth

What is the difference between bonding and veneers?

Both procedures can greatly enhance the look of a tooth. Depending on your preferences, we discuss the key differences between the two.

Dental Bonding Explained

Bonding is a technique that restores chipped, cracked, misaligned, or discolored teeth. An enamel-like resin is sculpted to the tooth to rebuild it. In this way, gaps in teeth can be closed, chips can be built up, and your tooth can be restored to enhance your smile.

With the proper care, a bonded tooth can last three to five years before it needs to be touched up to correct wear or discoloration.

Brighten Your Smile with Veneers in Wilmington

Veneers are thin sheets of ceramic that are also bonded to the teeth but last much longer, usually eight to twelve years. They look like your natural teeth without the imperfections. Your existing tooth surface will need to be prepared, or etched, to accept the veneers in Wilmington, which will be extremely durable. The final result is one of a natural, beautiful translucency that will give you a perfect smile.

My husband's teeth look worn down, flat, and discolored because of his nighttime grinding habit. Can veneers help improve the appearance of his teeth?

Let’s start with the real problem – what is leading to your husband’s excessive tooth wear? Since he is aggressively grinding his teeth, it’s absolutely necessary for him to see a dentist who is familiar with jaw joint disorders. Before any work is done to rebuild his teeth, he needs to have the health of his jaw joints assessed. Additionally, balancing the bite may be necessary.

Unfortunately, while veneers are designed to be durable, they simply aren’t strong enough to stand up against the heavy grinding forces caused by bruxism. Porcelain crowns would probably be a better solution in this situation.

Do you put on “temporary” teeth while the veneers are being made? I’ve had temporaries that did not look good and I don’t want to walk around with ugly teeth for 2 weeks.

Temporaries are typically required after preparing teeth for veneers or crowns. I usually try to make my temporaries close in size, length, and color to the proposed permanent teeth. This gives us a “dress rehearsal” and allows the patient to try the changes before fabricating the final porcelain restorations. The technician uses the temporaries as a blueprint for fabricating the final restorations, as changes can be made easily to the temporaries. The temporaries usually look really nice – but not as nice as the permanent teeth!

How do you get the new teeth to match the natural teeth?

Shade tabs of colored teeth are used to match natural teeth. Both the dentist and the lab technician have these tabs and use them to communicate the shade. We use digital photos of the patient’s smile and the teeth to further communicate the shade. Aesthetically inclined dentists will map out the many different shades and translucencies within a tooth for the best possible match.

Contact Us To Learn More

If you think you could benefit from any of the tooth replacement options in Wilmington, DE at Justison and Gladnick Family Dentistry, we welcome you to give us a phone call. We can access your dental needs and then schedule a dental appointment where we start helping you get the smile you deserve!

About Wilmington Veneers

Veneers are thin sheets of porcelain ceramic bonded to the teeth. They are also called porcelain laminates and will look like natural teeth without imperfections! Although the porcelain is paper-thin, it becomes very strong and durable when firmly bonded to the tooth structure.

Porcelain veneers are glass-like (ceramic) and, therefore, translucent. This means that light will penetrate its surface, just like your natural enamel. This will give your tooth a lustrous, natural, and healthy appearance. This is a distinct advantage over other dental bonding materials, which may be semi-translucent. In addition, some dental bonding materials are susceptible to staining when exposed to tea, coffee, red wine, and tobacco. The surface of a porcelain veneer, however, is stain-resistant!

On their own, veneers can conceal almost any smile flaw, including:

Gummy smiles
Short teeth
Slightly crooked teeth
Discoloration
Shape issues
Midline discrepancies

We have you in for a consultation to learn whether veneers are suitable for your cosmetic goals. At this visit, we want to understand what you're looking for in a new smile, and we'll let you know how we can help you achieve it!

Choose Your Cosmetic Dentist in Wilmington, DE, for Quality Dental Veneers

young woman with black hair smiling l wilmington de dentist Dr. Gladnick uses only the highest quality porcelain veneers and dental labs to support the incomparable artistry that he utilizes to give you the best possible results. You will look younger, and your dental work will be undetectable! He has been a member in good standing of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry.

If you are in Wilmington, Pike Creek, Newark, Hockessin, or Greenville, call us at (302) - 994-2660, and we would be happy to see you. Likewise, if you are from the outlying areas of Elkton in Cecil County, Maryland, or Oxford and Kennet Square, Pennsylvania, you will be pleased that you made the short drive to our conveniently located dental office on the corner of Milltown Road and Kirkwood Highway.

Out-of-town patients who have utilized our dental services agree that having a smile that looks natural, without imperfections, is well worth the trip!

Meet Our Doctor:

Dr. Jason Justison

Dr. Justison grew up in Pike Creek, Delaware, just around the corner from the office. He received his undergraduate degree in Biology, minor in chemistry from University of Delaware, researching cancer biology, physics, and biochemistry. He then went on to dental school at Temple University in ...

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