You should consider the real cost in two ways: financial and biological. Financial cost is often the chief concern, but the biological impact of the incorrect treatment can often lead you to a much larger financial risk in the future. As a specialist, my aim is to preserve your natural teeth well into the future. Therefor, the risk of the future financial cost is really reduced in the correct diagnosis which leads to conserving your natural biology, lowering the risk of future complications and expense. Over thirty years of experience and placing over 30,000 veneers, means I understand the cost benefit to you of the correct diagnosis in the beginning.
We have worked with the same technical expert for over 20 years. This is real team work and the results are what you are paying for.
Unfortunately, when patients seek out cheap treatments elsewhere to save money, this often leads to expenses in the order of 3x more than what the original cost would have been. I know this because I have had to fix many of these cases. A simple porcelain veneer that would have been placed with minimal intervention, becomes a full crown, affecting the patient’s biology and long term constant maintenance, root canal therapies, crowns, and eventually extraction. The restorative cycle ultimately leads to an implant. Not only do you lose teeth, you lose financially. Implants are significantly more costly and not as predictable as your natural tooth.
Being a specialist prosthodontist (board certified specialist cosmetic and reconstructive dentist) it is my duty of care to initially diagnose and plan your treatment accordingly.
Treatment planning in your case requires diagnostic (direct mock up) set up, which will tell us the following; the smile line, width, the level and degree of teeth display as it affects your speech and smile dynamics, which cannot be ascertained digitally.
Unfortunately, without diagnostic set up, I am in no position to assess above and cannot guess the effect of proposed treatment and your level of expectation. It is for your benefit that we proceed with the diagnostic set up, as it will save: time, money, and most importantly maintain biology (your teeth).
Your dentistry requires careful treatment planning and this I take very seriously.
It is better to spend less money on a consultation, than thousands on corrective treatments and loss of biology. After all it is your smile.
