Porcelain Veneers over Crowns
Do you know if there is any “veneer” or anything else that can be applied to front teeth crowns to make them whiter? Seems that someone should have created a process to fuse a veneer to porcelain by now.
- Stan
Stan,
Yes, we can put porcelain veneers over crowns and make them whiter. There is bonding technology to bond porcelain to porcelain, and also to bond porcelain to metal, so we could take the porcelain off a porcelain fused to metal crown and make it whiter and newer. The reason we don’t do it is because it’s about the same amount of work as doing a new crown, so we would have to charge the same. Since a new all-porcelain crown looks so much better, it makes it impractical.
Other questions:
- Trey has one crooked front tooth that sticks out and wants to know if he’s a good candidate for porcelain veneers.
- What is your opinion of the new Lumineers? I’ve been to two dentists, and one wants to do Lumineers, and the other says I should have crowns.
- How long do white fillings last on back teeth? I was told that they don’t last as long as amalgam ones.
- My dentist said I have leaky fillings. How can I know if he is right, and what does that mean?
- Why would a dentist recommend an all porcelain crown for my front tooth but a porcelain fused to metal crown for my molar?
