What Is Dental Laminate?
When you’re not confident in your smile, it can do
real damage to your self-esteem. Feeling a need to hide your teeth shouldn’t
keep you from smiling, laughing, and interacting freely with the people around
you. Advancements in cosmetic dentistry can transform your smile more quickly
than you ever imagined. Dental laminate treatments can produce spectacular
results in a relatively short time frame.
Dental laminate, also called porcelain veneer or
porcelain laminate, is a thin leaf-shaped material made of dental ceramic and
adhered to the front surfaces of the teeth. Porcelain laminates are generally
0.5-0.6 mm thick. This corresponds to approximately 2 times the thickness of an
eggshell (much thinner laminate varieties are also available).
What Are They Used For?
The primary task of dental laminates is to improve the
appearance of the teeth. They can be considered as a kind of surface coating.
Examples
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Porcelain laminates are widely used to adjust the color,
shape and position of teeth. So with this application, teeth;
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Has changed color,
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Worn out,
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Form flawed,
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There are gaps between them,
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Slightly misaligned can be corrected.
Dental Laminate Application is Optional
Dental laminates are mostly applied at the request of
the patient, not for the purposes of structurally strengthening the teeth or
preventing the teeth from getting worse, but only to correct the appearance of
the teeth.
What is Dental Laminate Application a Good Solution?
Although dental laminate is a thin piece of porcelain,
it can withstand all the attrition. There are basically two reasons for this:
Although porcelain is a material that breaks easily in
cases of falling or bending by its nature, these weaknesses disappear when
firmly adhered to a solid structure. The forces applied to the porcelain are
transferred to the strong and solid tooth underneath.
The hard and ceramic (glass-like) structures of dental
laminates create a very durable surface. Dental laminates are resistant to all
materials and abrasion they will be exposed to in the mouth.
What Advantages do Porcelain Laminated Offer?
Yonsei Uline Dental Clinic will inform three important
reasons that make porcelain laminate application advantageous:
Dental laminates only cover the front surfaces of the
teeth. Crowns, on the other hand, cover all the surfaces of the tooth on which
they are placed. Therefore, much less abrasion is required than tooth enamel in
dental laminate application compared to crown coating. The thickness of
porcelain laminates is generally in the range of 0.5-0.6 cm. This is equal to
the amount of abrasion that needs to be done only from the front surfaces of
the teeth. In crown coating, 2 mm of abrasion is required from all surfaces of
the teeth. Since the priority of dentists is to preserve the natural structure
of the teeth as much as possible, dental laminates are the first choice as long
as the patient’s condition is suitable.
Porcelain laminates reflect light similar to natural
teeth. Therefore, a very natural appearance is obtained with dental laminate
application. Laminates produced with composite filling material do not create a
realistic image as much as porcelain laminates.
Due to their ceramic surface, dental laminates are
resistant to staining. Laminates produced with composite filling material stain
and change color over time.
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