Porcelain dental veneers are a fast and attractive way to correct dental issues such as misalignment, chips, stains, and gaps. These thin shells are placed over the visible area of the affected tooth, and color-tinted to blend in with surrounding teeth. Made of an extremely durable ceramic material, veneers can often last for decades and provide a natural, balanced appearance to your smile.
Porcelain veneers can be utilized to improve the appearance of a number of tooth imperfections, including stains, chips, gaps, and more. At Dental Professionals of Fair Lawn, our highly-trained and experienced dental team can customize this popular treatment to resemble the look and feel of your natural teeth while providing durable, long-lasting results. Additionally, veneers can be designed to match the color, shape, and size of your surrounding teeth. With daVinci™ porcelain veneers, our cosmetic dentist can restore form and function to your teeth and help you achieve a beautiful new smile.
Porcelain dental veneers offer a variety of aesthetic and functional benefits for your smile. Custom-designed to match the specific color and dimensions of your natural teeth, porcelain veneers are constructed to cover the affected areas of your tooth while providing improved function and natural-looking results. Additionally, veneers are long-lasting and require no further maintenance apart from regular brushing, flossing, and routine dental check-ups. This cosmetic dentistry technique can be used to conceal several common dental issues, such as:
Ultimately, porcelain veneers can mask common dental flaws to restore the proportions and shade of a youthful and healthy tooth structure. Furthermore, this minimally invasive cosmetic solution often allows patients with inconsistencies in tooth symmetry to achieve an even, uniform smile.
Once it has been determined that you are a good candidate for daVinci™ porcelain veneers, a digital impression of your teeth will be made in order to ensure the utmost precision for the design and construction of your veneer. Rather than creating an impression with messy pastes and adhesives, our advanced computer imaging system will map out an exact model of your teeth while you are relaxing comfortably in your chair. Our cosmetic dentist will then prepare the treated tooth by removing a very small portion of enamel to accommodate placement of the veneer.
Utilizing a durable porcelain material, your custom veneer will be thinly constructed to match the specific size and shape necessary for the most comfortable and natural fit over your tooth. Once your porcelain veneer is crafted and ready for bonding, it will be secured to your tooth using a strong cement and tinted to match the color of your surrounding teeth. Following a final polish, your veneer should look, function, and feel like a natural tooth.
Porcelain veneers typically produce long-lasting results, often spanning decades. Thanks to their durable porcelain composition, daVinci™ veneers can be very enduring with routine oral hygiene habits. No additional maintenance besides daily brushing and flossing, as well as routine dental check-ups and cleanings, is typically necessary to keep porcelain veneers in good condition. Taking care to avoid excessive clenching, grinding, or pressure on the teeth can also prevent unnecessary damage to the veneer and further prolong their usefulness.
Given their ability to last years, porcelain veneers are often considered a long-term investment into your smile aesthetic. The price of treatment will be contingent upon a number of factors, such as the expertise of your cosmetic dentist and the geographic location where the procedure is performed. With this in mind, other details unique to your treatment plan will ultimately determine the cost of porcelain veneers, including:
Patient reviews from RealSelf.com place the national average cost of porcelain veneers treatment at approximately $7,000, although a cost estimate for your procedure cannot be accurately calculated until your needs are assessed during a consultation. Prior to the start of any dental work, a member of our team will provide you with a complete price breakdown as well as a personalized quote. In addition to accepting all major modes of payment—including cash, checks, and credit cards—our practice also works with premier healthcare lending companies, such as CareCredit® and ALPHAEON® Credit. These highly reputable dental financing options offer a range of low- to no-interest payment plans for qualified applicants that can be chosen to suit your budgetary concerns. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to our practice for any other questions you may have regarding the cost of porcelain veneers.
Our Fair Lawn dentists offer several other treatments that can serve as cosmetic fixes for common dental concerns such as yellowing of the teeth, misalignments, and cracks in the tooth structure. If staining is your main concern, professional teeth whitening is one of the easiest ways to powerfully lighten the shade of your smile. Furthermore, misalignments in the teeth can be corrected discreetly with cosmetic orthodontic systems like Invisalign® or Six Month Smiles®.
Small chips in the enamel are often effectively addressed with cosmetic bonding, which layers a durable bonding material to the affected tooth in order to repair the area. The region is then molded to blend in seamlessly with the proportions of your tooth structure. While this solution is not usually as long-lasting as porcelain veneers, cosmetic bonding can be a relatively simple technique to restore the entirety of a chipped tooth.
In addition, a porcelain crown can be a beautiful restoration to repair tooth damage that is too extensive for cosmetic bonding. These “caps” are designed to cover a tooth in order to strengthen it, as well as protect against further injury or decay. While crowns can add aesthetic benefits to your smile, they are primarily used to rebuild a weak tooth structure.
While most insurance plans do not cover porcelain veneers due to their classification as an elective cosmetic procedure, every patient’s policy differs. Our front office would be happy to check your insurance plan to determine whether you are eligible for partial or full coverage of the costs.
The dental-grade porcelain used to craft your veneers is designed to be exceptionally strong, often lasting 15 to 20 years with regular oral hygiene. With that said, if you grind or clench your teeth at night, it may benefit you to sleep with a custom night guard in order to prevent unnecessary pressure on the veneer.
Since there is very little natural tooth enamel removed during the porcelain veneers process, patients usually report little to no discomfort during treatment. After the veneer is bonded to the front of your tooth, wearing it should cause no pain and the dental appliance should look and feel natural.
The porcelain material used in cosmetic dentistry is generally stain-resistant and impervious to the effects of wine, coffee, alcohol, blueberries, and other agents known to cause discoloration.
Whitening or bleaching treatments typically aren’t effective on porcelain veneers, as the porcelain material is denser than natural teeth. Fortunately, veneers are also very difficult to stain and often remain color-stable throughout the years.
As a small amount of enamel must be removed to support a natural fit for the veneer, the procedure is not usually reversible. However, when placed by an experienced dentist, porcelain veneers typically provide a stunning result that retains high rates of patient satisfaction.
Dr. Mendia is a Dentist Anesthesiologist and the founder of the Advanced Dental Anesthesia Services Group. A New Jersey native, he attended Rutgers University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science and Nutrition. He then earned his Doctorate of Dental Medicine from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Directly following Dental School, Dr. Mendia completed a rigorous postdoctoral residency program in Dental Anesthesiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine, at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). Dr. Mendia’s anesthesia training involved hospital rotations through various specialties providing general anesthesia in the areas of dentistry, general surgery, otolaryngology (ENT), pediatrics and obstetrics. Lastly, he received specialized training for office-based anesthesia.
Today, Dr. Mendia has found his niche in ambulatory anesthesia with pediatric and special needs patients. He is also a local, national and international guest lecturer who provides continuing education courses on sedation and medical emergencies in the dental office.
Dr. Mendia is a Diplomate of the National Board of Dental Anesthesiology and a Fellow of the American Society of Dental Anesthesiology. In addition, he is also a part of the following: American Dental Society of Anesthesiology, American Society of Dentist Anesthesiologists,
New Jersey Dental Association, and American Dental Association. He holds certifications in Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) and is a Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider, training local dental offices for certification.
Get to Know Dr. Mendia:
Dr. Mendia resides in northern New Jersey with his wife and three children, all of which keep him very busy! A fun fact about Dr. Mendia, is that he loves following the weather and when he was younger, he wanted to be a meteorologist! His personal interests vary; he enjoys taking the kids to the zoo and Central Park; in the Fall you’ll find him at sporting events. He enjoys traveling to Long Beach Island and to warmer climates in the Winter.
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