So what are the differences between prepless and minimal prep veneers?
With Prepless Porcelain Veneers, there is only minor enamel shaping, contouring, buffing, or very limited shaving. Most often this is used to reduce the facial thickness or bulkiness of specific teeth like the mid facial of the canines and the distal facials of the centrals. This contouring is limited to the enamel layer.
Minimal prep veneers means that we are actually drawing a margin INTO the tooth with a bur and using a bur to create an artificial finish line in the enamel.
Generally, with minimal prep veneers we want 0.5mm of incisal space or reduction and 0.3mm of facial space or reduction.
With No Prep and Prepless veneers the margin and finish line is created over the existing tooth structure.
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