What Are Lumineers And Why Are They So Popular

One of the warmest things that make others look comfortable is a good charming smile. Not only will you be attractive among a group, but also your own confidence will get a big boost.

What restricts a good smile or your confidence? A discolored tooth, stain in the tooth, crack in the tooth or gap between the teeth might be the reasons for that lack of confidence in yourself and shyness to smile when caught in a group.

Lumineers provide the solution for such minor tooth related problems and helps you in getting back that smile and confidence back.

What are Lumineers?

Thanks to the development in the field of dentistry, veneers have come to the rescue for correcting minor tooth related problem, by placing these veneers on top of the damaged tooth. Lumineers is the latest edition in the type of veneers used for correcting such minor problems.

Lumineers provide a cosmetic solution wherein ultra-thin porcelain veneers are fixed over the damaged teeth to provide a shiny and attractive look to the teeth, masking the damage totally. You might have come across contact lens, a tiny lens used over the eyebrow for correcting eye problems. If lens is for the eyes, then Lumineers is for the tooth. Such will be the impact of these Lumineers in the teeth.

Why Lumineers are so popular in cosmetic procedures?

Lumineers are prepared by compressing the veneer to as thin as one third of a millimeter. The break-through technology in veneers is invented by Cerinate. The salient feature of Lumineers is that it is made of glass ceramic that has leucite crystals of high density, providing strength and durability to the veneer.

Since Lumineers is a proprietary product manufactured and marketed by professionals, only certified labs and lab technicians can handle this unique product, thus ensuring high quality for the product. Lumineers are custom-made for the individual patient meeting the specific requirement of the veneer that needs to be placed over the damaged teeth. Within 2 weeks of appointment with a dentist to have lumineers, one can get the custom-built lumineers fixed over the teeth. Once fixed, lumineers will not affect the jaws or root of the tooth and will provide a good and attractive look to the teeth, masking the damaged tooth.

Another important feature of Lumineers is that it requires little or no tooth preparation prior to fixing. You need not have your natural teeth structure tinkered, either by shaving or by grinding, before the lumineers are fixed over the natural teeth. The thin lumineers fixed over the teeth will look natural and esthetic, while bonding the teeth.

Since the natural teeth have not been tinkered, or in other words, shaved off or ground, lumineers can be removed, if you want it removed later, without causing any damage to the natural teeth. Proper oral hygiene will ensure that the Lumineers last for a longer period, even as much as 20 years, in most cases because of the high quality and durable nature of the Lumineers.