Los Angeles / Beverly Hills Porcelain Veneers Specialist
Dr. Kevin Sands

Over the course of his career, Dr. Sands has helped numerous Brentwood, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills and LA porcelain veneers patients achieve dazzling smiles by providing them with beautiful, natural-looking restorations. He is renowned as one of the most experienced porcelain veneers Los Angeles specialist who skillfully uses these restorations to enhance the appearance of severely stained, chipped, crooked and/or misaligned teeth. In the paragraphs below, Dr. Sands describes porcelain veneers and the results his LA / Beverly Hills veneers patients can achieve through this procedure.

What are porcelain veneers?

Porcelain veneers, also known as dental veneers or dental porcelain laminates, are wafer-thin shells of porcelain which are bonded onto the front side of teeth for a cosmetic improvement in their appearance. Porcelain veneers are comanly used to for teeth that are discolored, worn, chipped, or misaligned.

Why a porcelain veneer?

Porcelain veneers are an excellent alternative to crowns. They provide a much more conservative approach to changing a tooth's color, size, or shape. Porcelain veneers can mask undesirable defects, such as teeth stained by tetracycline, by an injury, or as a result of a root-canal procedure, and are ideal for masking discolored fillings in front teeth.

Patients with gaps between their teeth, teeth that are chipped or worn may also consider porcelain veneers.  When properly performed, veneers can last for many years.

What happens during the procedure?

Most porcelain veneers Beverly Hills / Los Angeles patients need three appointments for the entire procedure: diagnosis and treatment planning, preparation, and bonding.

Two advantages of porcelain veneers over other types of cosmetic dental bonding are:

1) Porcelain veneers have a very life-like tooth appearance.

Porcelain veneers, because they are very thin, have a great advantage over other types of cosmetic dental bonding by the fact that they are translucent. When they are bonded onto teeth, they mimic the light handling characteristics of enamel.

Light will penetrate a porcelain veneers thickness, and then subsequently be reflected back out once it has reached the tooth structure lying underneath the veneer. This effect provides a sense of depth, and a very life-like appearance.