AIBU to think people are ruining their teeth with veneers

[enterone]

I keep seeing people going to Turkey for veneers where their teeth and filed down to tiny points and whiter than white 'teeth' are put in their place, not natural at all. I keep seeing things also saying these 'teeth' need replacing after x amount of years etc..

^suckingonchillidogs
Sadly Katie P looks like she's wearing a blindingly white gum shield now^

I flicked onto Mucky Mansion and couldn't work out what was going on with her teeth as it looked like a white plastic strip and couldn't see any definition of teeth.

I feel a lot of these super white celeb teeth do nothing for attractiveness as draws eyes focus straight to teeth which feels unnatural.

Interesting thread as I did wonder what the differences and long term results of these treatments were.

I wear a tooth shield at night, @GroovyGroovy, and it is fine - and better than having my TMJ lock, which is what happens when I don't wear it.

I have 3 veneers - I broke my front teeth in the 1980s, and the composite repairs discoloured.

They have to shave the teeth down, but not to points. The first time I had them done, they didn't cover the teeth with temporary veneers whilst I was waiting for the veneers to be made, and no-one really noticed - I just has small teeth for 2 weeks!

I've had to have them replaced twice since then - only the front two - and have booked in to have them replaced again this year. Each time it has been because I've chipped or broken one, and the other one of the pair needs to be done to keep them looking good. My third veneer is being replaced along with the others this time, as it is still bright white like my teeth were in the 1980s, and my other teeth and veneers are slightly less so.

My front 2 veneers don't look fake - they match my other teeth perfectly. I also think it's a mistake to go for bright white, as they look so fake. Mine are the teeth of a person in their late 50s, and my veneers will match them.

Having had veneers for so long, no way would I have them out of choice though. I have a terrible bite, and so my front teeth don't meet, which actually protects my veneers. I never eat using them - I don't bite with my front teeth, and use a knife and fork for all foods (sandwiches, pizza, EVERYTHING). And even so, I've broken my veneers three times over the years. It's a faff I'd rather not have.

What a strange thread. So many people so indignant because apparently I don’t know what Invisalign is. FFS, I can google, of course I know what it is.

Invasalign teeth (like Turkish teeth) are a look. You start with a hidden Invisalign brace to resolve a snaggle, and before you know it you’re having composite bonding and “a touch of whitening” (see Ross from Friends) on the questionable and not disinterested advice of a dentist. Before you know it, you look like you’re wearing dentures, while your dentist is laughing all the way to the bank. Often not before they’ve tried to sell you Botox and fillers.

[quote ShaneTwane]@hotmess21 your teeth are gorgeous 😍[/quote]
@ShaneTwane Thank you, very kind! 😊

@BingoBungle

What a strange thread. So many people so indignant because apparently I don’t know what Invisalign is. FFS, I can google, of course I know what it is.

Invasalign teeth (like Turkish teeth) are a look. You start with a hidden Invisalign brace to resolve a snaggle, and before you know it you’re having composite bonding and “a touch of whitening” (see Ross from Friends) on the questionable and not disinterested advice of a dentist. Before you know it, you look like you’re wearing dentures, while your dentist is laughing all the way to the bank. Often not before they’ve tried to sell you Botox and fillers.

This is such utter rubbish. I had invisalign. They are just my own teeth but straighter. No difference to the length or edges. No whitening or composite bonding.

and no attempted upselling by my dentist

@BingoBungle

What a strange thread. So many people so indignant because apparently I don’t know what Invisalign is. FFS, I can google, of course I know what it is.

Invasalign teeth (like Turkish teeth) are a look. You start with a hidden Invisalign brace to resolve a snaggle, and before you know it you’re having composite bonding and “a touch of whitening” (see Ross from Friends) on the questionable and not disinterested advice of a dentist. Before you know it, you look like you’re wearing dentures, while your dentist is laughing all the way to the bank. Often not before they’ve tried to sell you Botox and fillers.

I know what you mean, Bingo. It can end up being kind of a package of "tooth rehabilitation". I always notice people who have had braces - my generation was probably the first one where I live where there were huge numbers of teens that had them, and you could always tell because they did not look quite like normal, untreated straight teeth.

If you then add whitening, which does look unnatural almost always, and a dentist who reshapes the teeth so they are all "perfect" - the fact is they tend to look the same on everyone. Which isn't usual - normally you could have two people with very nice, healthy teeth, but they would not be so identical, and usually not so perfectly even. SOme people have teeth a little more square, or a bit of a different shape, or a bit smaller, or the gaps are a bit different, etc.

I think each step seems like a good idea at the time, and also, the more you look at photos of people who have had the work done, the more it seems natural and normal, and natural teeth seem like "bad" teeth.

Whitening doesn't look unnatural. Usually my dentist said when you see "white" teeth, it's veneers or bonding or crowns etc

I've had zoom whitening, it doesn't look unnatural because my teeth will not whiten any more so they're still (in my eyes) yellow! I hate my teeth

@MrOllivander I think your teeth look nice and white!

Does anyone know what the safest way to whiten teeth is?

I had laser whitening over ten years ago, and it was pretty good. Had just a couple of twangs of sensitivity during but nothing that lasted.

BUT now in the last few years I do have sensitive molars (to be clear, obviously nothing to do with the previous whitening as these were never touched!) probably from tooth grinding. So I'm uneasy about anything that could hurt.

Am I doomed to never have white teeth again?

Damn my love of coffee, tea and red wine

YANBU I’d rather someone who has dodgy teeth than fake ones. Too much vanity shows

They look dreadful. They are always too big and too white. Noticeable a mile off.

@AbsentmindedWoman sensodyne rapid relief works on mine

Does it matter if the ‘ recipient’ is happy with them?

@MrOllivander Your teeth look fab!

@Getoffmyshoes

They are crowns not veneers. I have a friend who had veneers done by a top dentist in the UK to correct small looking teeth and they look fabulous and very natural.

Can you say which dentist that was, I’d love to get mine done.

I have had veneers on front teeth for 25 years.
To fill a space in front teeth. Couldn't be closed with braces as my bite was fine and apparently they would just have moved back.

I love em, because I loathed the gap. Yes front teeth are a bit bigger than the rest but much it's still better than the bloody gap.

Yanbu they are. It's sad. I saw on TikTok a dentist saying they will need work done later on. I've had this done to two teeth that had root canal done and crowns put over them but that needed to be done. That dentist said they will end up needing root canal done.

@ enterone, their teeth, their money, why are you so concerned?

@ TonyBlairsLover, seriously? Are you really serious?!! I work with 2 co-workers, men in their early 60’s, one has 4 teeth stained brown and stinks of nicotine and the other Halitosis and 3 teeth in his whole head! Yuk!! Really revolting

I have veneers on my top two front incisors. They were done here in the UK, because l'd apparently worn the edges down by tooth grinding and the entire edge of one actually broke off. The other was very thin and fragile on the edge and would have broken sooner or later.

They're exactly the same colour as my other teeth (ie, not Tipp-ex white and dazzling) and no one except my dentist and a couple of friends know they aren't my natural teeth.
My dentist did try composites first, but they kept chipping, l must have had them replaced five or six times, she said it was because it was such a small piece, right on the biting edge of my front teeth, so we went with the veneers instead and l'm very happy with them.

One of my friends had her top (visible when she smiles) teeth 'done'. Apparently (l didn't know her before she had them done) she'd had very prominent and misaligned teeth. I've seen photos from when she was young and they were quite bad, she was very pretty and they didn't do her justice.
She had veneers and a couple of implants. They're very well done except for the colour - they're dazzlingly white. About five or six shades lighter than her bottom teeth, which are still natural. I think if they'd been toned down a few shades darker they'd look much more natural.

It cost her about £10k when she had them done about 12 years ago, here in the UK.

I have two veneers and two crowns after breaking my front teeth as a child. They were shaped and colour matched to my mouth. They are tooth coloured, not tippex white or otherwise fake looking, and I don't think you can tell at all.

BingoBungle - Invisilign simply isn't all that extra stuff though. You're describing separate cosmetic dentistry procedures. Invisilign are purely see the through braces. My DS19 has them right now because he/we left him having braces later than most teens (borderline whether or not it was necessary) and he simply didn't fancy having a mouth full of metal braces while he was at university so chose the clear alternative. They're to straighten his teeth and there'll be no extra procedures after his Invisilign treatment is finished.

I think the problem is that it’s very rarely people who have a genuine medical need for them that have these treatments; it’s often people with bodily insecurity of varying degrees of seriousness whose vulnerabilities are exploited by someone who is medically respectable but often neither artistic nor selfless in their interventions.

We’re also abnormalising healthy teeth, in favour of synthetically augmented cosmetic results that are rarely even flattering and require often expensive ongoing upkeep.