Smile Refresh — Minimal Veneers & Old Crown Replacement

Two old crowns on the upper central incisors and one existing veneer were replaced, and thin porcelain veneers were added across the rest of the upper six front teeth to bring the whole smile up to the same standard. The crowns had gone dark underneath with age, and the wear that comes with decades of natural use had left the teeth slightly uneven — the goal was to mask the discolouration, restore what wear had taken, and redesign the smile as one connected result rather than isolated repairs.

Treating six teeth rather than two or three was a deliberate choice: fewer natural teeth left unaltered means fewer existing shapes the new work has to accommodate, which gives more freedom to actually redesign proportions rather than just patch around what's already there — and, done properly, a more convincing aesthetic result. That freedom didn't come at the cost of the teeth themselves. For the four teeth getting veneers for the first time, only around 15% of the tooth surface needed reducing — closer to resurfacing than replacing, using contact-lens-thin porcelain that adds a new surface rather than removing what's healthy to make room for a thicker one.