Designing clip on veneers when there are gaps in the customer’s natural teeth can sometimes present challenging issues. It's not so much of a problem when the gap is caused by the loss of one or more teeth, as we can “fill” the gap left by a missing tooth with a corresponding false tooth in the clip-in veneer.
The more difficult problems tend to be with gaps caused by the separation between the teeth. Sometimes these gaps are called diastemas, and it's quite common for such gaps to occur between the two upper front teeth or other teeth. For example, when teeth are lost /extracted, the remaining teeth can separate out.
A customer we recently manufactured clip-in veneers for was particularly concerned about gaps caused by the customer’s hypodontia (a natural condition meaning she was missing some of her teeth). The dentist, to avoid leaving whole-teeth gaps, had fused the natural teeth that had come through, but the customer was not happy with the result, which still left a lot of gapping.
The customer therefore asked, could clip-in veneers provide a cosmetic improvement?
The difficulty for our designers is that if the instasmile clip on veneers replicate the positioning and number of the existing teeth, widening each veneer to cover the gaps, the result can be excessively wide “bunny” teeth, which obviously the customer did not want.
The solution was to design a trusmile veneer so that the additional teeth were inserted to the veneer, which did not replicate actual or missing teeth, with the veneer while sitting on the framework of the existing natural teeth. The designer had to balance out the new teeth to give as natural an appearance as possible. The result is a shiny smile veneer that adds extra teeth to fill the gaps without creating the appearance of excessively wide teeth.
The customer did not want perfectly straight teeth and chose shade A1. This kind of design work is only possible with our Premium Plus veneers.