Add Confidence to Your Smile With Dental Veneers in Wayne

I had been bleaching for a while, and I got tired of that. And I was a little concerned about what it was really doing to my teeth, if, you know, ultimately if you keep bleaching, what am I going to have left? You know? Time is marching on. So, I talked to Dr. Handel about getting some veneers, and he gave me pricing, he gave me some ideas, his opinion on what we should do. And I, me, I always expand on that. And I mean, people say I have the best smile. I mean, it's so nice to be able to just smile in pictures and not ever be concerned about, ”Oh, do I need to bleach my teeth first?” You just... it's seamless, it's just wonderful.

With Dr. Handel, it's just such a pleasant experience. It's like talking to your brother or a relative or something. We talked about what different colors I could go with if I wanted to match the bottom, if I was going to eventually do the bottom. And everything turned out perfectly. People said to me, ”I can't believe that you're going to do that to your teeth,” and I've never been happier. I would highly recommend it to anybody that they, if they're unhappy with their teeth, if they're a little bit crooked or a little bit small, you can make them look perfect or not so perfect. They can look exactly like your own teeth. So some people... for me, I was like, I don't want them to be like, look like false teeth or something. I want them to look real because they are just covering my real teeth.

So, he can... he's so good at managing what you want and succeeding at that. It's just incredible how if you have an idea, he'll say, ”Okay, we could do this or that,” and he'll give you a few options. And then you just go with that, and I was just thrilled from the minute they were inserted.

We use veneers in a number of ways to transform smiles, especially smiles that are unattractive. The veneers that are used today are more lifelike than ever before, and we can use them to create more or less any smile a patient wants.

So a porcelain veneer is made out of porcelain. It's a thin shell of porcelain. If you imagine a fake fingernail, it's very similar to that. Once it's bonded onto a tooth, it's rock solid, so patients can eat what they normally eat. Their diets don't have to change. And the ultimate goal for us is that someone can look at your teeth that have been veneered and they don't know it's been veneered because it's so lifelike.

Our veneer process is very detailed in that we want our patients to know what the outcome is going to look like. So we image their smile photographically. We do something called a diagnostic wax-up, where they can see on a model of their own mouth what their teeth will ultimately look like. And any patient that has gone through the veneer process in our practice really knows what the final product will look like before they ever start.

But in our practice, I think one of the things that sets us apart is that we offer a warranty for life on all the procedures that we do. The only thing that we request and require from our patients is that they keep their end of the bargain, which is that they keep their regular recalls. So they have to maintain their teeth in the proper manner. And if they do so, and they keep their regular checkups, we will stand behind the treatment that we do for them.