The Lumineers^® Difference

Advances in the technology of bonding porcelain veneers as an alternative to the use of full crowns for the treatment of many clinical conditions, such as treatment of diastemas, misaligned teeth, worn dentition, chipped teeth, and excessively discolored teeth. Veneers were considered to be a more conservative treatment approach than full crowns because preparation of the teeth for veneers was thought to involve less tooth reduction than full crown preparations. Although this may be technically true, in actuality, the trend in conventional veneer procedures is to use very aggressive tooth reduction similar to that of three quarter crown preparations. This conventional approach requires local anesthesia, considerable treatment time and all of the rigors of tooth preparation for both the patient and the dentist. Also, in many cases, temporaries need to be fabricated and applied. The result for the conventional approach to porcelain veneers is very little meaningful Clinical benefit.