Are you happy with your smile? Do you ever watch television, movies, or look at magazines and wish you had beautiful, white, straight teeth? Porcelain veneers can give you a dazzling, new, Hollywood smile in just a couple visits to the dentist office.

Porcelain veneers are ultra-thin shells of porcelain that are designed to fit over the front surfaces of your teeth. Porcelain veneers mimic the color, shape, and translucency of natural teeth to provide a beautiful, white, straight smile that looks completely natural.

Cosmetic dentist offices, like Delany Dental Care in Gurnee, Illinois, use porcelain veneers to provide patients with brand new smiles in as little as two visits. After receiving porcelain veneers, many people find themselves smiling more, knowing they have the smile they've always wished for.

"I stay current with all of the latest advancements in cosmetic dentistry to give my patients every advantage possible," says Dr. Ira Shapira at Delany Dental Care in Gurnee, Illinois, "many people leave my cosmetic dentistry office shocked at what porcelain veneers can do to their smile."

Porcelain veneers are the latest advancement in cosmetic dentistry for people who want to correct their smile in a short amount of time. Porcelain veneers are a perfect solution for any body suffering from:

Cracked Teeth
Broken Teeth
Chipped Teeth
Misshaped Teeth
Disfigured Teeth
Uneven Spacing
Crooked Teeth
Worn Teeth
Permanently Stained Teeth

Having porcelain veneers bonded to your teeth is a simply process that can be accomplished in just a couple visits to the dentist office. Improving your smile with porcelain veneers begins with an initial consultation with a cosmetic dentist.

During the initial consultation, the cosmetic dentist will evaluate the health of your teeth, and discuss what goals you would like to achieve with your smile. "I take time with each of my patients to explain their dental conditions and go over all available options for them," says Dr. Mark Amidei at Delany Dental Care in Gurnee, Illinois.

After it is determine that porcelain veneers are the best treatment for your smile, your teeth will be prepared for your custom made porcelain veneers. To prepare your teeth, a very small portion of the front surface of you teeth will be removed. This is to provide space for the porcelain veneers, and to roughen the surface so that they can be bonded to your teeth better.

A mold will then betaken of your prepared teeth and sent to a porcelain veneer dental lab so that technicians can create a mock-up of what your smile will look like with the porcelain veneers.

While the mock-up is being created you will be outfitted with temporary porcelain veneers. "Many of my patients happier with their temporaries than their old smiles, and after they receive their custom made porcelain veneers they can't believe the difference in how good they look," says Dr. Shapira.

When the cosmetic dentist receives the mock-up from the dental lab, you can approve it or make suggestions and alterations. After the mock-up has been approved, the porcelain veneer lab will send your cosmetic dentist the custom-made porcelain veneers that have been created just for you.

Once the cosmetic dentist has received the porcelain veneers, they will invite you back for your final dentist visit. A small amount of the front surfaces of your teeth will be removed to compensate for the thickness of the porcelain veneers.

Porcelain veneers are less than a millimeter thick, so the dentist only has to remove a very small portion of your natural tooth to create a seamless fit. After your teeth have bee prepared for the porcelain veneers, a bonding gel will be applied to the teeth, followed by the porcelain veneers.

In order to permanently bond the porcelain veneers to your natural teeth, a special, high-intensity light will harden the bonding gel. The porcelain veneers will then be permanently attached to your teeth.

After your porcelain veneers have been bonded to your teeth, you will be able to smile with confidence.