Two routes to a veneer.
This is the faster one.
Designed from a 3D scan and milled in the practice while you wait. For the cases it suits, it removes the impressions, the temporaries and the laboratory wait entirely.
Scanned, designed, milled, bonded.
Scan
The tooth is prepared and a 3D digital scan captures your mouth. No impression tray, no setting material.
Design
Software builds a digital blueprint of the veneer, planned against your bite, the neighbouring teeth and your facial proportions.
Mill
It is sculpted from a block of colour-matched, metal-free material in the practice, while you wait.
Bond
Tried in, checked, adjusted and bonded to the tooth. You leave with it finished.
Which route suits your teeth.
Both are real veneers and both remove a small amount of enamel permanently. What differs is how they are made — and that changes what each is good at.
Single-visit, milled here
- One appointment, no second visit
- No impressions, no temporaries
- Digital fit is often more precise, so less chairside adjustment
- Colour-matched, metal-free materials engineered to withstand chewing forces
Best suited to a limited number of teeth and to cases where the shape and shade are relatively straightforward to plan.
Laboratory porcelain
- Three visits, including a temporary stage
- You wear temporary veneers first — a preview of the shape and length before anything is permanent
- A ceramist can layer translucency by hand, which matters most on front teeth
- Changes made at the wax or try-in stage, not after
Best suited to full smile cases and anywhere the match has to hold up under close inspection. The full three-visit process ›
The preview is what you trade.
The single-visit route’s advantage is speed. Its cost is that you do not spend a fortnight living with temporary veneers before the permanent ones are made.
For some people that preview is the most valuable part of the whole process — the chance to see the new shape in your own face, eat with it, and change your mind about length or shade while changing it is still free.
For others, particularly where one or two teeth need matching to their neighbours rather than a whole smile being redesigned, the preview matters less and the single visit is plainly the better deal.
Which applies to you is a clinical judgement, and we will give it to you straight at the consultation.
Enamel does not grow back
Any veneer requires a small amount of enamel to be removed from the front of the tooth — typically 0.3 to 0.5mm. That is permanent, whichever route you take.
Once it is gone, the tooth will always need a veneer or similar covering. Speed of manufacture does not change that, and nobody should agree to veneers without understanding it.
What the single visit gives you.
Convenience
One appointment rather than three, with no temporaries to mind and no laboratory wait in between.
Comfort
Digitally designed restorations typically fit better and need less adjustment, which means less time being worked on.
Appearance
High-quality colour-matched materials for a seamless, natural result. Metal-free, so no dark line appears at the gum over time.
Durability
The materials are engineered to withstand chewing forces — and, as with any veneer, a night guard if you grind is what makes them last.
Answered honestly.
Can every case be done in one visit?
How long is the appointment?
Is the result as good?
Do I still need to whiten first?
What if I do not like it?
Does insurance cover veneers?
One consultation decides it.
Come in and we will tell you which route suits your teeth, what each involves, and what each costs — before you commit to either.