Q: My new hygienist said that my 20-year-old veneers may need to be re-done due to gum recession; what do you think?
A: Don’t trust these AI aps or Google for everything. I asked an AI ap: “Why would veneers need to be re-done?” They gave eight reasons; three were completely wrong.
Remember, unless you are managing a nuclear fusion reactor from your kitchen table, AI is really just searching the internet and spitting out what it found with zero intelligent thought or decision-making skills. Spoiler alert: It’s not thinking!
The number one reason why patients re-do veneers is because with age your gums will pull back from the edges of the veneers, exposing the yellow/gray roots often trapping food. (looking “long in the tooth”.) This is called physiological recession, as opposed to pathological recession from gum disease.
Other reasons are fractures, veneers consistently falling off, decay underneath and wanting to go with a lighter shade.
In the last three months we have re-done four patient’s 20+ year old veneers due to recession. Doing some math dividing veneer fees by 20 years comes out to $125 per month for a stunning smile. Just think how easy it would be to pay for that; for me I, would gladly do one of these: drop my cable TV, quit drinking diet coke, cancel some stupid aps that I have that tell me the weather and what my altitude is and many more….