In recent years, the field of cosmetic dentures has made great strides, allowing many patients with various problems to be able to show off a dazzling and enviable smile in a short time and without suffering any pain.
This is exactly the case with dental veneers, or aesthetic veneers, which are very thin sheets of ceramic or porcelain, disilicate and composite placed on the outer tooth surface to conceal various kinds of aesthetic problems that may cause discomfort to the patient, especially psychologically and interpersonally.
In fact, dental veneers can be applied on stained teeth due to smoking, consumption of beverages such as coffee or tea, or on crooked teeth that cause obvious chewing problems, in the presence of bruxism episodes or a diastema (the larger or smaller space between two teeth).
Veneers also become the ideal solution when teeth are damaged due to trauma or, simply, from the wear and tear of time, but you can also resort to this solution when you have bad habits that damage your teeth such as, for example, biting your nails, gnawing on pencils or pens, and brushing your teeth with excessive force.
Is it possible to lose dental veneers?
Nowadays, there are indeed many people who have resorted to dental veneers to correct obvious cosmetic defects or simply to give themselves a better, dazzling smile, but in most of them there remains a strong fear that they might suddenly and for no reason lose their veneers, making the treatment precarious and finding themselves in a condition they wanted to set aside.
In this regard, it is important to understand that this is a completely unfounded fear because, when relying on qualified and experienced dental offices, veneers are made of very durable materials, designed in the laboratory for each individual patient and applied with care and effective tools.
With these assumptions alone, one can be assured that one's dental veneers will be able to last between 10 and 20 years, but this is also a duration that depends on the wearer's personal behaviors.
In fact, to make them last a long time, some bad habits that can wear them out such as gnawing nails, biting pencils and pens, and grinding teeth should be corrected.
