Female friend furious about her awful veneers

They look clunky and fake, like the teeth on old fashioned doll babies. How much did these things set her back?

I would guess that's a closeup of Laura Ingrahm's bizarre, never closed mouth.

They probably look better than they did. It’s a horrible ordeal so she’s unlikely to redo them. And it’s not like she can just have them taken off.

Call her Chompers the next time you see her

What a great friend you are, EST!

Get her a pair of these. They'll take attention away from her mouth!

Will her blowjob skills be hampered?

She looks like a beaver. Like a Kennedy.

THIS Kennedy

I'm not sure there is such a thing as "masculine teeth."

That said, they look better than mine.

I think the issue is that one front tooth looks much wider than the other. Also, the lateral incisors are longer than the front teeth which looks weird.

I rode through the desert on a horse with no name….

They're really pretty ugly. Did she go to someone reputable?

They look very very thick.

She could eat a corncob through a picket fence at this point

Why did she get veneers at 20 something — was she fixated on her teeth or is she an actor? Please don’t say Insta made her do it.

She’ll probably get used to them. When someone I knew got them, they looked oversized at first, but not anymore.

She should smile to display her teeth in the pic. No one really rests with their mouth like that.

You should always try to save your own teeth. Veneers and implants come with so many problems. Unless your friend’s teeth were falling out of her mouth, she should have worked with what she already had, gotten them straightened and bleached. Then left alone.

I just came in to say it's odd how you never hear the OPPOSITE of OP's headline:

Female/Male friend is ecstatic about his/her amazing veneers!

Is that a pic of Gary Busey?

r16 She had braces as a teenager but her teeth were still crooked afterwards (yes, she wore her retainer) The orthodontist tried to convince her the teeth were straight and said there was nothing more she could do. Also, they were yellow no matter what whitening products she used. She was very insecure.

Here's are two before pics.

Giddy Up!

First World problem.

I happen to have perfect teeth. No food, but perfect teeth.

Can she move to England?

I see what she means about them looking masculine. They remind me of my grandma's boyfriends' dentures. They're a little large relative to the size of her mouth.

But I wouldn't tell her that. Just tell her that they look better than they used to, and she is young enough to be able to save up to get them done again down the road if she continues to dislike them. They do look better than they used to, but they're clearly not the transformation she was hoping for.

r21 Seriously though, how could the orthodontist claim those teeth looked straight after braces? They're obviously still crooked.

Did she get them done in Mexico?

Did she upgrade her vaginal dentata also?

OP, I could post a pic of my jacked natural teeth, but that would be nasty - kind of like those last photos. What the hell is the matter with you? I think someone is about to slap you in the head.

r25 This is why I feel sorry for her. She's always been very insecure about her teeth. Veneers seemed to be the solution, and now she looks even worse.

Jesus look at those chompers! Don't stick a cock or a Tootsie Pop in there!

Why did she put chicklets on her teeth? Odd choice.

[Quote]No one really rests with their mouth like that.

Oh, to chew grains with such wondrous teeth!

A true friend wakes up in the jail cell alongside their errant pal, so to speak.

Downplay the dental work and, instead, praise her many other attributes that attracted your friendship. Tell her the new look is an improvement and then let it go. As a friend you're supposed to support her, especially after such an expensive and likely irreversible decision.

Be happy.

FUCKIN FABULOUS!

She looks Irish. It’s hard for some people to get their teeth to look white against pale skin. Tell her they look good bc they do look better than they did. She will relax, smile more and people will start to compliment her bright smile whether just because you can’t miss it or maybe for real. She’ll grow into them.

I need to practice piano now.

Covering the grey tooth was a genius move.

r37 How does she look Irish? The skin color or facial shape?

They look a lot better than the "before" photo. Any dental change, even an upgrade, is a shock at first. She'll get used to it and smiling around her new teeth will start to feel normal soon.

She's lucky she can afford all of the dental care that she's had done.

They look fine.

She needs the two on either side of her front teeth shortened a bit. What did she do about the lower teeth?

I have veneers on my front two teeth. I broke them when I was 13 and had years of bonding. The dentist finally talked me into veneers but wanted to do the top six teeth and I said no way, my other teeth were perfect. So now my front two teeth are a hair more prominent than the rest but I am not ever going to compromise healthy teeth out of vanity. I’m on my second set of veneers because one started chipping after 15 years and having them removed and replaced was just as much of an ordeal as the first time getting them done.

How much are veneers on a couple teeth?

They always look weird to me. I think there are a lot of dentists doing them who shouldn’t be, like bad cosmetic surgery. They often look too big for the mouth, and I think your upper lip will stick to them, not slide easily like real teeth. You see a lot of bad ones on reality shows. Shep on Southern Charm and that son of the 2 scam artists that went to prison come to mind. They all look like the same, no individual uniqueness like real teeth. I knew a woman who got each tooth individually bonded because it was cheaper. That looks weird too, especially as you get older and your gums start pulling away from the tooth at the top. The day-glo whitening or the overdone blueish cast…it all says no.

They look like they're susceptible to termites.

They look fine. Nobody will examine them as closely as your friend is, OP.

Chewing gum mouth

How much money did she spend for that?

R3, veneers usually have to be re-done every ten years or so. They're not a permanent solution. Because the actual teeth they sit on have had the enamel removed, removing the veneers and using her own teeth is no longer an option.

I know someone who was considering getting them in his 20s, and when it was explained to him that he'd be going back and forking out every ten years for the rest of his life, he lost interest pretty quickly.

No doubt, at some point there's going to be a lot of people who can't afford to maintain them.

Yikes R50! I'm glad I have normal teeth and that whitening toothpaste has improved them.

It's funny how we often focus on our flaws and forget to be grateful for our normal bits.

Is your friend our Faye?

Ask her if she wants to go dam building in Vermont this weekend.

And P Diddy, r33.

He always looks so dense.

Real "white" teeth aren't the color of non-design 1960s Pyrex dishes. Her veneers look like trash (I mean, Republican female politicians' teeth).

The mouth at R36 looks like an accordion keyboard.

Meghan Markle has obvious veneers, probably even back to her molars, because she has such a ridiculously wide mouth, Her veneers always make me think of the rounded teeth on the Simpson characters.

Prince William broke one of his front teeth a few years ago at a party. He got an emergency tooth cap or whatever put on that night. Ever since then, one of his front teeth noticeably sticks out before the others, and is another colour than the other. Jesus, the British hate dentistry, if they do such a piss poor job on the teeth of a future king. I remember a hilarious time when teaching a Parisian college student who couldn’t comprehend the state of the Queen Mother’s teeth. “But she is a Queen?…”, the student kept repeating in disbelief.

Is your friend colored young man?

Rylan Clark in the UK made a career out of his Turkish teeth.

Don’t forget about me!

The six front teeth are clearly bigger than the back teeth. That's why they look so fake.

Never go to Dollar General for your dental care.

There's one positive benefit to those things. Eating will be so much easier for her now. She only needs to tie a bucket around her neck and whinny for someone to dump her feed in.

She can now eat corn on the cob, through a picket fence.

Some funny stuff on here😆

R50 Every ten years? That’s a giant, expensive commitment. I also suspect that the underlying and supportive tissue must be retraumatized with each fitting. I know a guy who had his upper teeth veneered because he didn’t like the shape of his smile line (small incisor teeth). So he chose his new smile from a book at the cosmetic dentist’s office. He admitted that the procedure close to $20k in 2001.

About 18 years later, the veneers needed replacing. That procedure cost $56k because of the delicacy of fitting new veneers onto the “pegs” that anchor the porcelain replacement teeth. It’s all really expensive and complex. And each set lasts less time than the original set. That variable cost would stress me out as I aged. My friend’s wife was really mad because they had to withdraw savings to pay for this expensive dentistry.

In Australia we talk about "American teeth". In the old days it used to mean teeth that had had excellent orthodontics, which became popular much more recently here than it did in the US. We were admiring, and parents began saving the money to have it done for their children. Previously it was done here only on children with teeth so bad the dentist was concerned about their bites, but now it's done on pretty much everyone and a very large proportion of family dentists under 45 are either qualified orthodontists or studying to be so.

Today, however, "American teeth" refers to chicklet teeth, teeth that are too white to be real, and so on. Fake-looking, in other words. American celebrities who have flattering, convincing cosmetic dentistry just have "nice teeth", not "American teeth", if you see what I mean.

Your friend's teeth are definitely "American", OP. Sorry about that.

She could eat a PBJ sandwich through the Venetian blinds with those chompers.

I was thinking of getting veneers but I got braces instead. My orthodontist told me that once I get the braces off, I can just get a whitening treatment. I think that may be a better option.

Why did she get them in the first place, and how did she think veneers look? They look fake 99 percent of the time. I have a friend who has a veneer for a tooth that was chipped and it looks similar to your friend's teeth - it's always a distraction to me.

A year later, a bit of the veneer chipped off. I'll add the pic when I can.

They always look bigger than they should and they all look like the same set is given to everyone.

Whatever you do, OP, don’t let your friend see this thread— or there will be a real gnashing of her teeth plus loads of tears and shrink visits.

I'm really dense and I don't notice fake teeth or hair extensions or anything fake unless it's super bad and obvious. I'd just think she had big clean teeth.

Call me..

The veneers look okay I guess but what's up with the brown gunk between them? Looks as if she hasn't flossed in five years!

I think they look natural. Unlike Trump's.

This thread reminds me of the time my friend's brakes locked while riding his bike in our teens and he hit his mouth on the handle bars as he flew off. His upper front teeth went through his upper lip when his mouth hit the handlebars. The broke off mid tooth and we walked him home as the blood flowed. It was really traumatic.

Years of plastic surgery on his lip and fake tooth replacements. Finally as an adult he was able to get some proper front teeth and a decent lip job. The earlier ones were always temporary and not so nice. Still, he was a good looking guy, didn't slow him down at all. Just endured.

OP, your friend has my sympathy. One's mouth is a sensitive area and a big part of the face. So many people mess them up with bad veneers and ridiculous implants and fillers.

I wore braces, had an overbite but it was fixed long ago. I'm grateful to not be wrapped up in that now.

Now, the bags under my eyes. I sure would like to get rid of them.

Ooof, marone...she got the Gary Busey treatment.

They're fine!

R77 Flossing might feel differently because the porcelain or composite veneer is foreign matter. That’s also why some patients can’t feel food stuck onto or in between veneers and caps. All this foreign matter in your mouth must alter your sensitivity.

r77 That's not gunk. That's the material used to hold the veneers on.

Fabulous!

I really hate my teeth, but even if could afford them, not sure I’d go for veneers. This gay couple I know both got new sets of big fake chompers. It’s so distracting every time I see these guys. One of the guys looks sort of okay, but the other should have asked for a smaller size, if that’s a thing.

What about caps? Are they the same as veneers?

She should get a refund

There’s no translucence and her oral care is sub-par: the edges are brown. Is she a smoker?

Here’s how veneers work: the dentist takes a mold of the teeth and then under a ton of Novocain, in a very long procedure, shaves off a millimeter of the tooth enamel, exposing it down to the dentin. You can’t walk around like that (painful and unsightly, and susceptible to bacterial infections). The dentist puts on a temporary cap on each tooth. This will probably be the most unpleasant dental procedure ever, especially for a non-essential dental procedure. After two weeks, they cement the porcelain veneers onto the exposed teeth. Not as horrible, but not fun. Rinse and repeat every 10-15 years . Forget about ever biting into an apple for the rest of your life. Anyone considering them instead of braces and whitening is a masochist. It is a brutal process.

As posted earlier, I broke my two front teeth as a kid. Multiple dentists have tried to get me to do veneers on all six front teeth. No way Jose!

Damn, doesn't that stink? I imagine the foods and juices get in and under that?

a seriously disgusting procedure with seriously ridiculous results.

Veneers can be done well if you’re in the right hands. I had the top center four veneered in the 1990’s and they lasted for almost 25 years. Last year I finished having all the upper and most of the lower teeth replaced by implant crowns and bridges, a three year process.

The temporary caps/crowns were the worst part. But the results are terrific. They look great, my bite is much better, and they’re not blinding white.

luck for me my teet are o naterell

r88 This picture was taken on the day she got the veneers done, so they aren't stained. This is what they looked like when she left the dental clinic.

Veneers and implants are such a crapshoot.

I’ve seen excellent work regarding both, & I’ve also seen them look horrendous. The horrendous work is usually (not always) done in Mexico or South America.

The less one is willing to spend on them, the greater chance one has of them looking very unnatural, or even worse, failing to adhere without issues and/or infections, including falling out of place due to jawbone density issues.

Poorly fitted veneers or cheap looking implants looks just as bad as shitty plastic surgery.

It’s easier to save up for an excellent dental/ortho specialist here in the states, or put it on a card, that way, if something goes wrong you can drive to get it remedied instead of having to fly out of the country again.

There’s lumineers which doesnt involve tooth loss but dental implants are costly and are a lengthy process.

Turkey is one of the top places in the world for quality inexpensive dental work and hair transplants.

Couldn't her provider have offered imaging to see how they would look before proceeding with the work?

If I ordered veneers from a lab and they came back looking like that at OP, there is no way I would allow them to be put in my mouth, prep completed or not. It should be every dentist's duty to make sure the veneers they apply are not all the same color from front to back and that they don't all look like front teeth.

I have been researching and keep coming back to the conclusion that direct composite veneers still have the upper hand over ceramics despite the drawbacks. I have found a few doctors mentioned in this link whose direct composites are almost as expensive as the finest porcelain veneers. They claim their work is also as long-lasting due to the hardness of new composite materials. Their work is beautiful and I would like to see other dentists trained in this method.

r98 Composite stains easily.

I had veneers done on the top front four 25 years ago at Harvard’s Dental School for $2700. Bonding one where it was chipped never worked. The Fellow who did mine won some kind of recognition for them at a dental convention because they did indeed look real, neither too big nor too white. They lasted 21 years.

For the last three years I’ve been going to Boston University’s Dental School for four more implants, two bridges, and 8 crowns, some new, some replacements on the upper jaw. $1000 a month for 28 months. My dental insurance paid $12,000 towards the total. They look flawless and I had the first post-completion exam last week by the faculty member who oversaw the post-doc who did the work. He said they look great and I agree.

If you have the time and the patience a dental school can save you big money but you need to live near one and be both available when they can see you and be willing to spend a long time in the chair when they do. OTOH, in both cases the costs were less than half that quoted by private dental practices and the materials and techniques were state of the art.

Wilbur!!!