With the current times, almost every day, we are faced with countless innovations affecting the medical and aesthetic fields, among them we can surely find everything related to orthodontics and the care of one's smile.
Dentists nowadays might offer you different solutions that aim to improve the beauty of your smile. Among them, the most named and recommended are dental veneers and capsules, but very often there is confusion between the two and you do not always know their function and effectiveness well.
First of all, you should know that both veneers and capsules have a specific function and should be applied only if their presence is suitable and able to solve the dental problem you need to solve.
Going into specifics, we can say that dental veneers, which in medical circles are also called veeners, are small, very thin, shell-shaped pieces of ceramic that are applied to the outside of the tooth in order to evenly mask a broken or different shape of the tooth in question.
With this method it is also very easy to mask the coloring of the teeth, which as we know over time changes and deteriorates to a yellowish hue.
This blemish could cause a lot of embarrassment to the sufferer, which is why dental veneers are perfect for this type of problem.
Dental caps, on the other hand, unlike the previous remedy, have the characteristic of being significantly more invasive, due mainly to the fact that teeth must necessarily be filed down to install such a device.
Dental capsules are like prostheses that go to protect and strengthen an aesthetically corrupt or diseased tooth.
As for, however, the material a capsule is made of, you'll just need to know that the inside (i.e., the part that comes into contact with the teeth) is made of metal, while the outside (i.e., the part that is visible to everyone when you smile) is made of ceramic, and many different colors and shades of white can be chosen so that you can get as close as possible to your natural tone.
Therefore, which to choose: veneers or dental capsules?
Both devices, dental veneers and capsules, as we mentioned earlier, have different functions, including:
Veneers are especially recommended for anyone with less obvious dental problems, such as one tooth being smaller than another or of a different color than others, to correct tooth crowding (much more common than you imagine) and other minor situations.
Capsules are a type of cosmetic measure that should be considered when you have more serious dental problems, such as structural ones.
Some of the most common dental structural problems include broken teeth, chipping of part of the tooth, devitalization, dental disease, and teeth damaged by external substances such as alcohol, coffee, or nicotine.
