Porcelain Veneers in Colombia: Your New Smile Guide
What are Porcelain Veneers?
Porcelain veneers are custom-made, thin shells crafted from high-quality ceramic material designed to cover the front surface of your teeth. They’re known for their strength, durability, and natural-looking appearance, closely mimicking the light-reflecting properties of your enamel. Veneers are bonded to a tooth's surface to address a range of cosmetic concerns, such as chips, gaps, stains, or misalignment.
Why Pick Colombia for Dental Tourism?
Dental tourism has been gaining traction as a health care option, with Colombia emerging as a prominent destination to get veneers abroad. Our country has capitalized on its ability to offer high-quality dental services at a fraction of the cost back home. The combination of Colombia's skilled, often internationally trained dentists, state-of-the-art facilities, proximity to the United States, and the allure of its cultural and natural attractions has brought many international patients to our wonderful country for a dental vacation.
And though people speak Spanish in Colombia, we can communicate in English with our international patients. We’d love to see you in either Cartagena, Medellin, Bogota, or Cali.
Examples for Porcelain Veneers from Colombia
Cost of Porcelain Veneers in Colombia
Priced in USD.
How to Get Porcelain Veneers in Colombia
1. Get a Free Quote Online
The first step is a free online consultation. If you haven’t already, please upload 5 photos of your teeth and answer a few questions. We’ll respond shortly to confirm you’re a candidate for porcelain veneers and share a personalized, detailed treatment plan.
2. Plan Your Trip to Colombia
Once you’re happy with your porcelain veneers quote, start thinking about dates. Before you book, be sure to check with us to ensure we have availability. We have offices in Cartagena, Medellin, Bogota, and Cali.
To confirm your appointment, we’ll need your flight and hotel information. This is instead of a deposit and helps coordinate your free dental transportation.
3. Fly to Colombia
Upon arrival, we’ll pick you up from the airport and handle all of your dental related transportation needs. This includes hotel check in, to and from each appointment, and back to the airport.
4. Tooth Preparation
During your first appointment, your dentist will confirm your treatment plan by examining you up close. When both of you are ready to proceed, tooth preparation begins. This process typically requires the removal of a small amount of enamel from the front and sides of your teeth to make space for the veneers. The amount of enamel removed is usually less than a millimeter (0.3mm) and is roughly equal to the thickness of the veneer to be fitted.
5. Impressions and Temporary Veneers
After the teeth are prepared, your dentist will make an impression or mold of your teeth. This mold is used to create your custom veneers in our dental lab. The fabrication process takes a few days depending on the quantity of veneers you get. In the meantime, we’ll place temporary veneers to protect your prepared teeth.
6. Veneer Fabrication
Your impressions are sent to a dental laboratory where the porcelain veneers are custom-made for your teeth. During fabrication, color shading can be adjusted to match your surrounding teeth for a natural look.
7. Fitting of the Veneers
Once your full set of veneers in Colombia are ready, you will return to our dental office for fitting. Before the porcelain veneers are permanently bonded to your teeth, your dentist will temporarily place them to examine their fit and color. We will then remove and trim the veneers as needed to achieve the perfect fit.
8. Bonding
To prepare your teeth to receive the veneers, your dentist will clean, polish, and etch them. Etching roughens the teeth to allow for a strong bonding process. A special cement is applied to the veneers, which are then placed onto your prepared teeth. Once positioned correctly, your dentist will apply a special light beam to the veneers, which activates chemicals in the cement causing it to harden quickly.
9. Final Adjustments and Follow-Up
After the veneers are bonded in place and the excess cement is removed, your dentist will make any necessary final adjustments. You may be asked to return for a follow-up visit a day or two after to check how your gums are responding to the presence of your veneers and to once again examine the veneer's placement.
Maintenance
Porcelain veneers do not require any special care beyond good oral hygiene practices. Brushing, flossing, and visits to your local dentist for regular check-ups are important to maintain the health and longevity of your veneers.
This process is not reversible due to the enamel removal, so it's a commitment that should be considered seriously.
Work Guarantee
Assuming you take proper care of your teeth, our dental work is guaranteed through an industry standard warranty of 1 year for porcelain work. This ensures work is properly manufactured and installed.
In the rare case of an issue, we will redo the work for free. We will not pay for return airfare or hotel. We will not reimburse work done by another dentist.