Porcelain veneers for Westminster patients are designed and bonded at Safari Dentistry and Implants, about 3 miles south on Goldenwest St in Huntington Beach. Each case is planned on an intraoral scan, previewed as a trial smile over your own teeth, and priced per tooth in writing before any enamel is touched.
What are porcelain veneers?
A porcelain veneer is a thin ceramic shell, about half a millimeter thick, bonded to the front of a tooth to change its color, shape, length or spacing. At Safari Dentistry and Implants veneers for Westminster patients are designed on an intraoral scan, previewed in your own mouth as a trial smile, and bonded only after you approve the shape and shade. The periodontist in the office checks the gums first, because the edge of every veneer sits at the gum line.
- Porcelain veneers: lab-made ceramic, two visits, resist staining, last 10 to 15 years.
- Composite veneers: resin sculpted directly on the tooth in one visit; lower cost, easier to repair, last 4 to 8 years.
- Minimal-prep veneers: for teeth that are small or set back, where little or no enamel needs to be removed.
- Single veneer: one dark or chipped front tooth matched to its neighbors, the hardest match in dentistry and planned with extra shade photographs.
Why Westminster patients choose Safari for veneers
Westminster patients often arrive with a veneer price from a cosmetic office on Bolsa Ave or Beach Blvd and no explanation of what it included. Here the written fee lists the design, the trial smile, the temporaries and the follow-up, and porcelain and composite are quoted side by side. The office is ten minutes down the same street, so the three visits fit into a lunch break.
What do veneers cost for Westminster patients?
Veneers are priced per tooth, and the total depends on how many teeth show when you smile, usually four to ten. The fee is written down at the consultation and includes the design, the trial smile, the temporaries and the follow-up visit. Veneers are elective and not covered by dental insurance, so monthly payment plans are offered, and any crown or gum treatment in the same plan is billed to your PPO or HMO separately.
What to bring to your first visit from Westminster
- Photos of a smile you like, and one of your own smile from a few years ago.
- Any veneer quote or plan from another office, to compare tooth by tooth.
- A note of whether you grind or clench; it decides the ceramic and whether a night guard is part of the plan.
- Your insurance card; veneers are not covered, but a crown or gum treatment in the same plan often is.
Getting to the office from Westminster
Safari Dentistry and Implants is at 16511 Goldenwest St, Unit 101, Huntington Beach, CA 92647, about 3 miles from Westminster and usually about 10 minutes by car. Goldenwest St runs straight south out of Westminster into Huntington Beach. Stay on it past Bolsa Ave, Westminster Blvd, McFadden and Edinger; the office is on the right at Heil Ave, just before Warner. From the east side of the city, Heil Ave or Edinger Ave west to Goldenwest works too.
- Hours: Monday to Thursday, 10 AM to 4 PM. Same-day emergency time is held each open day.
- Parking: free, in the lot at the door, with a level entrance.
- Patients come from: Little Saigon along Bolsa Ave, the Westminster Mall area at the 405, the Civic Center district and Midway City on the Huntington Beach border.