pride cometh before the fall... this sums up how i feel after a bad veneer experience. totally done for cosmetic reasons, 10, 000 dollars later for four veneers. to explain 6,000 dollars of that was spent in the emergency room. it is a very invasive procedure, after the prep for the veneer you have very little of your original tooth left. two weeks of waiting for the veneers to be put in they give you temoprary veneers that immediately fell off within a couple hours. so for the next two weeks, soft food and hiding from the public. next was the final appointment, in the meantime my teeth were very sensitive, one gave me excruciating pain, i mentioned, and my dentist suggested banally that it may be irreversabile pulp damage as a result of grinding down the tooth in prep for the veneer. ended up in the emergeny room with a face the size of a mellon, an abcess, morphine, codine, and vicodin, followed by an intravenous antibiotic later. the abcess was cut and removed, stitches, pain, and lots of stress later, needed to have a root canal, about 1,100, which puts my beautiful veneers at a cost of about 11, 000.00 dollars. i am very dissappointed to not hear more stories like my own on this site. since my experience i have found from other dentists and oral surgeons that it is not out of the ordinary. make sure you ask your dentist about the risks involved in getting veneers. hope this helps a bit, i am not saying veneers are a bad thing , but like everything do your research, i did not and i paid for it in more ways than one.