Unfortunately, bad luck can strike at anytime and cause trauma to your natural teeth or your ceramic veneer. Fortunately, we are highly qualified in emergency dental veneer repair.
When you search for Dental Veneer Repair London, we have among the highest number of documented cases of repair for trauma related damage to natural teeth.
Cosmetic dentistry is not only repairing teeth, it is also doing a skillful and artistic job to make sure the teeth look as close as possible to the natural teeth. Below are some of the ways we do Emergency Dental Veneer repaid / Dental Veneer repair London.
Ceramic Veneer Repair
Depending on the level of fracture to the ceramic there are various options we can do to help repair or correct the broken piece of ceramic.
- Bonding existing veneer back :- One of the most common emergencies we encounter in cosmetic dentistry is the debonding of a veneer. When a dentist did not follow the full protocol to bond the veneer, or if there was any contamination with saliva or improper use of bonding cements, it leads to the ceramic veneer debonding. If the veneer is intact and there Is no damage to the ceramic or the tooth, in many cases the existing veneer can be rebonded back to the tooth with little or no hastle usually in one appointment. The bonding surface of the ceramic is sand blasted and cleaned of old cement and the tooth is cleaned and bonding agents applied and the ceramic veneer is then bonded back onto the tooth with a fresh veneer cement.
- Ceramic fracture repair :- If the Veneer has part of the ceramic fractured and the remaining part of the veneer still stuck to the tooth, we can smoothen and then repair the broken part of the ceramic with composite to make it mask the broken ceramic piece. This is ideal as a medium term solution however long term it will require the entire veneer to be replaced. The technical steps to bond and repair composite onto the ceramic veneer a slightly technically different to bonding composite / composite veneer onto the natural tooth. Hence its very important you choose someone with experience with Dental Veneer repair London.
- Composite Veneer :- If more then half of the ceramic is fractured then we can relayer the entire veneer surface with a composite veneer of the same shade and shape to match the existing veneers. This requires a high level of technical skill an expertise as the ceramic and composite both have different bonding protocols to ceramic and natural tooth. Further the final finishing and polishing to ensure the composite looks like the ceramic. This is a medium-term solution for the ceramic fracture.
- Temporary Veneer :- We can completely remove the existing broken veneer completely and make a temporary veneer that will be made chairside. This is a technique called chairside temporary veneer technique where we can use the existing veneer as a template to make a new plastic veneer as a temporary veneer and glue that onto your teeth as a temporary veneer till we are able to fabricate a completely new veneer.
- Same Day Veneer – Thanks to digital dentistry, intra oral scanners and cad cam dentistry, it is not possible to prepare your teeth for a new ceramic veneer in the morning and send the digital scan to the laboratory, that can fabricate the new ceramic veneer within a few hours and deliver it to our clinic for us to bond it onto your teeth on the same day. This is same day ceramic veneer.
Conclusion :-
When you have an emergency, its very important you choose the cosmetic dentist with sufficient experience and know how on how to manage a broken ceramic veneer. More than the repair its also extremely important for the dentist to ascertain the reason for failure. Ceramic veneers are extremely strong and robust, and when they break it is most likely due to trauma or the bite not being adjusted correctly.
Various techniques and options can be used to repair your broken veneer, however this will be decided by various factors such as amount of ceramic veneer that’s broken and amount that remains attached to the tooth. When you search for Emergency Dental Veneer Repair, London , we at smile makeovers London have a team across practices in different locations around London that specialize in providing treatment and care for porcelain veneers. We have a wide experience in dealing with emergency veneer repair and smile makeovers. We have in house labs across our clinics that help us provide emergency ceramic veneer repair, ceramic veneers and smile makeovers with new ceramic veneers.
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