How to Properly Take Care of Your Dental Veneers

Dental veneers are one of the best ways to quickly and drastically improve your smile. While you could treat gaps, crowding, or any other misalignment problems with orthodontic braces, you would be stuck wearing them for long times, dealing with the hassle daily. Whereas veneers provide a much faster solution, giving you the picture-perfect and glowing smile you crave for a long time.

Needless to say, you have to take good care of your veneers if you want them to stay longer. Otherwise, you could notice plaque, stains, or any other slight weakening. With proper care, veneers can last for almost ten years or more.

So, if you are worried about how to care for veneers, follow these tips.

Maintain Proper Oral Hygiene

If you follow a strict dental hygiene routine such as brushing, flossing, and rinsing with mouthwash after every meal or at least twice a day, you probably would not need to change it to care for your veneers. However, you may need some extra guidance from our caring dentist to make sure that you treat your veneers with proper care.

The most common issue patients face learning how to brush or floss veneers. If you tend to be slightly aggressive while cleaning your teeth, you could end up damaging your veneers. Our dentists provide a tutorial on how to properly brush and floss veneers to avoid this kind of issue.

Avoid Potentially Harmful Foods

Every food could result in being harmful to your natural teeth as well as veneer. For instance, chewing hard candy or ice could be equally harmful to both teeth and veneers, causing tiny cracks or chips.

Alternatively, foods like tea, coffee, wine, blueberries, etc., that can stain natural teeth should not affect your veneers adversely. The only problem is that they can stain your natural teeth next to veneers, causing a noticeable discolouration over time, and you probably want to avoid this problem.

Switch Up Your Toothpaste

In addition to changing your cleaning technique, you might want to consider switching your toothpaste after veneers are applied. The main reason is rough substances, including grainy toothpaste, can damage veneers as they polish away the surface stains on your teeth.

Dentists choose veneers after carefully examining your teeth’ colour so that the veneers blend seamlessly with your smile. Our excellent dentists recommend using whitening toothpaste to prevent your natural teeth from discolouration over time.

Quit Bad Habits

You know that consuming tobacco products is bad for your health; it can also harm your oral health. Cigarettes and other tobacco products can cause permanent damage to your natural teeth as well as porcelain veneers. If you want to protect the appearance of pearly porcelain veneers and want to live a healthy life, then quitting tobacco is the best idea.

Visit Your Dentist Regularly

Routine dental check-ups are mandatory to maintain healthy teeth. Even though porcelain veneers would not undergo a similar type of discolouration or decay like natural teeth, you still need to maintain healthy teeth and gum to enhance the longevity of your veneers. Our dentists use professional equipment to polish veneers and preserve their pearly-white appearance.

Also, remember that veneers don’t last forever. You will need to replace them after a certain period. So, if you visit our dentists regularly, they can give you recommendations on when you will have to get your veneers replaced.

Healthy Smiles to Get Your Veneers

At Healthy Smiles, we have a team of specialized dentists who will guide you throughout your treatment and suggest the best tips to take good care of your veneer. Besides veneers, we offer all types of dental treatments. So, book your dental appointment today.

You can book a dental appointment online with us or reach out to us on the below contact details.