Veneers and Lumineers: What you need to know about these ways to gain a perfect smile

What are veneers and Lumineers

veneer - thin plate (0.2-0.6 mm), which is fixed on the front surface of the tooth after its turning. Modern veneers require very little grinding of enamel - 0.3-1 mm. Veneers are used, if the teeth are very large or heavily issued forward. Then they should not be further increased due to the pads on top of the enamel, but rather the minimum grind.

Lumineers - it is also a very thin plate (0.2-0.3 mm), but fixed on a front surface of a tooth without turn. Lumineers is sometimes called "laminate", as they are made very accurately, as if glued to the tooth surface. Such plates are used in the case of small teeth, the presence of gaps between them. The teeth should not act strongly forward. If so, the doctor will advise select veneers.

You may also find the name "ultraniry", but they are separate species such plates are not. This is a marketing ploy that came up at the time of their manufacturer.

What made veneers and Lumineers

First veneers made from feldspar porcelain. They were quite thick, but not very strong, and now this material has virtually disappeared from the scene, because it changed the more advanced development.

More than 40 years ago, an American company DenMat created a material such as Cerinate. Plates therefrom become thinner as they were stronger feldspar, and their installation is not required substantial turning of the tooth. So there Lumineers. However, their strength was still not as high as we would like. In addition, this material is not allowed to create transparency and natural appearance of the tooth: a dense and yellowish at the neck, a more transparent and clear at the edge. We tried to achieve this by coloring, but it turned out not enough natural.

The next step in the evolution of veneers became a material based on nickel disilicate - E-Max from the German company Ivoclar Vivadent. This porcelain, reinforced with nickel, due to which there was an opportunity to make very thin plates that do not require turning. In this case it is twice stronger Cerinate, allows to fully recreate the tooth structure, it microrelief transparent cutting edge, the transition from one color to another, and so on.

Indications: what problems are solved veneers and Lumineers

And veneers and Lumineers solve two sets of problems: the aesthetic and functional. For aesthetic concern:

• the shape and height of the teeth;
• uneven enamel, its ugly color or pigmentation;
• presence of old fillings that the patient wants to hide.

The functional rank:

• tooth defects such as cracks and chips;
• increased interdental spaces;
• light defect occlusion (e.g., one tooth is shorter than all the others in the row).

Veneers and Lumineers also help fight age-related changes and create a rejuvenating effect. With age, people of all teeth are erased due to chewing loads and friction of the teeth of the cheeks, lips and tongue when speaking. Firstly, because this lost height smiles, secondly, from the storsheysya translucent enamel dentine, which contains pigments that give tooth yellowish or grayish color. Installing veneers or Lumineers helps to restore teeth height and beautiful color and thus rejuvenates smile.

Contraindications: who veneers and Lumineers are not suitable

Relative contraindications - age up to 16 years. During this period, there is a maturation of the bite, enamel, and teeth, so the veneers do not put in order not to violate the natural course of this process.

The only absolute contraindication for Lumineers or porcelain veneers - very badly damaged teeth. This type of restoration is suitable for relatively intact teeth with some defects. For example, if the front teeth because of cervical cavities are sealed and were restored several times art restoration, they can close the veneers and Lumineers. This will avoid changing the seals, which have a limited lifetime, whereas veneers or Lumineers solve the problem for many years. But if the front teeth were broken or lishis large volume of crown part, then there will have to use all-ceramic crowns.

Disadvantages veneers of outdated materials

Earlier feldspar veneers had a significant drawback - the thickness of the teeth and turning was more significant than now shot up to 2 mm of enamel. Modern materials allow even turning of the teeth to remove 0.3-0.5 mm, maximum - 1 mm. Why is it better? If you grind your teeth strong, in fact the whole ground off the enamel, the dentin is exposed, and is glued to it worse porcelain. Such veneers easily fly away from the tooth. The smaller the turning, the better fixation. Refacing is now carried out so as to maintain a healthy enamel, veneers and kept very well.

Issue price and durability

Products from material E-Max cost about 50-60 thousand rubles apiece. Lumineers and veneers Cerinate (and this material only in America can be ordered) would cost 50 to 64 thousand rubles per one tooth. The plates were created from these materials stand for 15 or even 20 years. But the cost of products is highly dependent on the work machinery: it is more than a highly artistic, the higher the price.

Recreating transparency, tooth microstructure, micro relief of enamel, a sophisticated color reproduction - that is what defines the high price of veneers and Lumineers. Veneers can be made for 25-30 thousand, but they will be monochrome - color will be colored by, there will be three-layer transition shades of each other, that is lost naturalness. But the products made at the highest artistic level, even with very white shades look naturally committed.

How is the installation of porcelain veneers and Lumineers

It begins with a consultation with a doctor, during which you will use it to choose exactly which records you want to install, for a number of teeth and some shade. The doctor uses when it fitting, "phantom" Lumineers, tries on your teeth. So you will understand immediately how it will look smile if your teeth will increase the thickness of Lumineers, whether you do or not suitable in terms of aesthetics.

Also during the aesthetic consultation used computer-aided design: you take pictures on a computer and simulate a suitable option - with veneers or Lumineers.

If you choose veneers with turning, the doctor teeth ground off, set them temporary veneers, and pre-made mold sent to a laboratory, where it will be made permanent plate. If your choice - Lumineers and veneers without peeling, the removal of the cast and everything is limited.

You will need to wait 2-3 weeks, and then come to the second reception. The doctor will remove the temporary veneers, if you wear them, and try on your teeth is what happened in the lab. For this purpose, an aqueous adhesive. If you really like, then you will be sent to the cleaning of the teeth, and then set the plate on the fluorine-containing cement.

When working with Lumineers used a microscopic technique for maximum accuracy of manufacture and installation of plates, and the doctor puts on the increase in several times points.

Care veneers and Lumineers

No special care they require. Just like natural teeth, you need to clean them twice a day, morning and evening, and a semi-annual check-ups and professional cleaning at the dentist. You do not need any special toothpaste or brushes. It is possible to use flossing (dental floss for cleaning the interdental spaces) and irrigator (device that cleans the teeth and interstices therebetween water flow). If the veneers are made of porcelain or feldspar Cerinate, should be avoided razgryzaniya solid and hard foods (nuts, crackers, and so on).

Unlike other types of restorations

Of course, veneers and Lumineers is not the only way to get a beautiful smile. The first thing that comes to mind - bleach. However, it does not affect the shape of the tooth, and the resulting color will inevitably lose its whiteness over time, it must be regularly maintained. In this case, all fillings and crowns bleaching not exposed. So there is a risk of a multi-colored teeth enamel has cleared, and filling or crown will remain the same color. They will have to change. Veneers and Lumineers can pick up the tone in tone, plus they fall on the teeth lead sealed without problems.

The second kind of smile correction - art restoration. The doctor puts on layers of the tooth composite material to form a beautiful surface and color. However, this is a long time, and, if necessary, treat the six teeth in each row will have to spend a lot of time. In addition, the teeth after a restoration need regular inspection and periodic correction - polishing the doctor's office at least once a year.

The third kind - installing crown. Neither one crown on the tooth can not be set without turning - or sintered metal or all-ceramic. Although their service life is not inferior to veneers and Lumineers, and crown themselves reliably protect your teeth, still use this method of restoration in the presence of normal or slightly damaged teeth is not necessary.

Veneers and pregnancy

When it comes to set with the turning of veneers during pregnancyThen it can be done, but, as with any intervention during the gestation of the child, it is better to do it in the second trimester. In the first three months laid important organs and tissues baby, and to eliminate the slightest influence on these processes, better aesthetic procedures to transfer at a later time.

If you want to put the Lumineers or veneers without turning, then it is possible in any period, since there is no grinding, pain and anesthesia. In fact, it is affixing plates of porcelain on the teeth that does not affect the status of the pregnant woman.

If veneers are already there, and the woman became pregnant, then it will not affect any pregnancy or on the teeth: veneers as they were, and they will stand.

Veneers and Sports

This is true not only of veneers, but also relatives of the teeth: for boxers, hockey players, people involved in arts, doctors create customized protective sports mouthguards. They are made from a special silicone, and even if the blow falls on the area of ​​the teeth and veneers, this cap protects them from damage. The rest of the sport does not affect the wearing of veneers or Lumineers.

What to look for when choosing a

The first - is the price. It is important to remember that the high price can only be a modern, high-quality products.

The second point - it is a choice between veneers with or without peeling. There can not do without a doctor's advice: there are situations where turning is necessary.

Finally, you need to carefully approach the selection of the clinic and the doctor. Patients should be evaluated three aspects:

1. How long has the physician engaged in the installation of veneers and Lumineers. Doctors who work for a long time, have a great experience and can showcase their work.
2. What doctor possesses techniques. It is important to make it work and veneers, with LUMINEERS, as work technology is different. When installing Lumineers uses a different method of fixing on the tooth, or else there is the choice of transparency of the material, the choice of colors and so on. In addition, it is always better to do without a turning of the teeth, as this is an irreversible process - the return of grinding the enamel is no longer possible.
3. Recommendations from friends and acquaintances who have already made such procedures in a given doctor.

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