Care and tips to make your dental veneers last longer
Care of dental veneers
A series of care must be taken into account to achieve the perfect maintenance of dental veneers.
1. Brushing after every meal
Oral hygiene is essential to maintain health and preserve its esthetic properties for much longer. Tips:
- Brush your teeth after every meal.
- Floss after every brushing, or at least once a day.
- See your hygienist for a dental cleaning at least once a year.
Correct brushing technique:
With a soft or medium bristle brush.
It is important to use the sweeping technique, which consists of placing the toothbrush perpendicular to the tooth and making gentle turns of the wrist from the inside to the outside.
We should not use a circular technique, it is not recommended for patients with veneers. This is because it can damage the seal of the veneers at the tooth margins.
This frequent brushing helps us to maintain the color and brightness of the veneers.
3. Visit a specialist dentist:
Dental veneers should be checked every six months, and it is necessary to evaluate if a professional cleaning is needed.
In addition, once a year we must do a maintenance of our veneers, in which all the veneers are polished to restore their color and brightness.
4. No clenching teeth/ biting objects
We must pay attention not to clench our teeth, because it can cause them to chip.
Also be careful with the habit of biting objects such as pens or nails, because they can break both our natural teeth and veneers.
The habit of using the teeth as tools, to open packaging or nut shells can also be harmful to veneers.
5. Very hard or sticky foods
Special care should be taken with hard and sticky foods, such as ice, chewing gum, nougat, dried fruit, raw vegetables, which can cause a veneer to peel off or break.
We should avoid any lever movement that we usually make when biting into a sandwich or apple. It is preferable to cut it into pieces.
6. Avoid Smoking
Smoking causes stains on teeth and also on composite veneers.
We therefore recommend avoiding smoking or reducing it as much as possible.
7. Moderate or avoid sugar consumption
8. Do not use pastes and rinses with colorants.
Bruximo splints
Mouthguards
How do I know if I have the wrong veneers?
- There must be a space between the veneer and the tooth.
- Not allowing me to floss properly
- Inflammation and constant bleeding of the gums
- The veneer may invade the gingiva and cause inflammation of the gingiva.
Almudena Herraiz
Specialist in invisible orthodontics
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Frequently Asked Questions
Maintaining good oral hygiene.
Do not clench teeth/bite hard objects
Do not use the teeth as tools, to open, break, tear.
No smoking.
Periodic visits to the specialist.
Be careful with staining.
Use bruxism splints.
Use mouthguards when playing sports.
Drinking beverages with dyes.
Biting a pen, nails.
Use teeth as tools.
Smoking.
Failure to maintain proper oral hygiene.
Eating hard and sticky foods.
You can eat whatever you want, avoiding foods with a lot of pigmentation, and very hard and sticky foods, such as chewing gum, raw vegetables, nougat, ice blocks.
Dental veneers are placed using an adhesive protocol and do not fall off.
But if we do not follow the tips to maintain them, they may fall off.
No, porcelain veneers are not pigmented due to the characteristics of the material.
We always have to be careful with the lever movements that we can make when eating a snack.
It is convenient to cut it into pieces.
No, dental veneers will be placed by a trained professional in a dental clinic.
They can be removed, design modifications can be made according to the patient’s requirements and preferences, re-fabricated and re-fitted.
