What should I ask at a veneer consultation?
Four questions cover the essentials: how much enamel goes, what the alternatives are, what happens in ten years, and how your bite was assessed.
A veneer consultation is where the treatment is really decided, and the quality of your questions shapes the quality of the plan. The goal is not to test the dentist but to surface the information that determines whether this is the right treatment for your teeth.
The four answers worth writing down
Ask how many millimeters of enamel will be removed from each tooth and whether a minimal-prep design was considered; ask what bonding, whitening, or orthodontics could achieve instead. Then ask what the replacement plan looks like when the veneers age out, and whether your grinding habits and bite were part of the assessment.
Good answers are specific to your mouth, not generic — suitable cases differ from person to person, and a plan that skips your individual risk factors is incomplete. If the answers stay vague, getting a second consultation with another dentist before any drilling is a reasonable move.
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