Thoughts on veneers after adult invisalign?

Post date: 2020-09-28 03:54:07

Does anyone have any experience with veneers? I am not sure what kind of follow up questions I would need to determine if I ultimately need to also have veneers in addition to the alignment treatment. Is it merely achieving a perfectly cosmetically pleasing result? Is it actually ultimately to help my bite and alignment?

I received three different orthodontic consults from A, B, and C. All three said my lateral incisors were small and disproportionate to my two front teeth. Orthodontists A and B recommended roughly the same idea- that I had the option of using invisalign to create space between my two front teeth and lateral incisors so that eventually, I could get veneers on the lateral incisors to build them up to a more proportionate size to my two front teeth.

Orthodontist A was pretty more straightforward on getting the veneers during the refinement stage. Orthodontist B said I could consider veneers. When I asked why the veneers were necessary, they said that if I did not create the space on top and have them filled with the veneers- then the top alignment would just be tightened to maintain alignment on the top. But a tight fit with pressure again on the top teeth would put pressure on the bottom teeth, so the overbite wouldn't be fixed.

The Orthodontist C did not recommend this but did state in his write up, that I did have "peg-like" incisors. They would just help align all my teeth straight.

Veneers are pretty expensive and require maintenance. On top of the invisalign, and now potentially the veneers - I would also have to find a dentist who I felt would be competent and up to the task to produce the veneers. I feel like just the process of figuring out an orthodontist has been pretty time consuming, not to mention now considering veneers.

A part of me wants to fix not only the alignment to get my teeth straight, but also the function. However, I'm not sure if I'm willing to go all the way out on having the most perfect teeth ever. Not sure how I should think about the situation.

Any experience and insight would be appreciated.

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