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Composite Bonding & Veneers
What Is Composite Bonding?
Composite bonding is a minimally invasive cosmetic treatment that uses a tooth-coloured resin to reshape, refine, and perfect your natural teeth. It's ideal for smoothing out chips, closing small gaps, improving symmetry, or enhancing the overall shape of your smile, with no drilling or damage to your natural enamel.
What Are Hand-Layered Composite Veneers?
Hand-layered composite veneers take bonding a step further. This advanced technique involves carefully layering composite material onto the tooth’s surface to create a more dramatic transformation, perfect for full smile makeovers. Each layer is crafted and sculpted by hand, giving a beautifully natural finish tailored to your facial features and aesthetic goals.
Our Approach To Composite Bonding & Veneers
At Crafted Dental, every cosmetic treatment starts with a detailed free* consultation to understand your smile goals. We’ll assess your teeth, discuss what’s possible, and build a plan that suits your timeline and budget. For bonding and veneers, we work with the finest materials and use artistic techniques to ensure your smile still looks like you — just elevated.
Why Our Patients Love These Treatments
Both bonding and veneers are loved for their quick results, natural-looking finish, and minimal downtime of watching what you eat for 2 weeks. Treatment is typically completed in one appointment and can be adjusted or repaired in the future. These options are also more affordable and less invasive than porcelain veneers, making them a popular choice for patients seeking a confident, refreshed smile.
Absolutely anyone!
These treatments are ideal for patients who want to enhance their smile without undergoing major dental work. Whether you’re preparing for a big event or simply want to feel more confident day to day, bonding and composite veneers offer beautiful results with minimal intervention.
Who Is This Treatment For?
Cost
We understand that the cost plays a large part in having the smile of your dreams, which is why we off 0% interest finance deals. You can decide to pay the cost of your treatment over 10 or 12 months.
Just ask a member of our team during your consultation and we’ll be happy to guide you through the process.
*£30 Deposit required for booking consultation. This deposit will be put towards any treatment you have at Crafted Dental, if you decide to not go ahead with treatment this will be refunded
FAQs
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Bonding typically involves adding small amounts of resin to improve individual teeth, while composite veneers cover the full front surface of the teeth for a more dramatic and uniform transformation. Veneers involve more layering, design, and time. Veneers typically are stronger due to covering a larger surface.
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No, one of the key benefits is that composite bonding and veneers are non-invasive. In most cases, there’s no drilling or enamel removal required.
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Not at all. Patients don’t need any anaesthetic for bonding or composite veneers, and the treatment is comfortable from start to finish.
We’ve even had patients fall asleep during their bonding appointments.
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With proper care, composite bonding can last 3–5 years, while hand-layered veneers often last 5–7 years or longer. Regular dental check-ups and good home care help maintain the results.
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Composite material can stain over time, especially with coffee, red wine, or smoking, but this can often be polished or touched up. As with natural teeth, it’s possible to chip, but repairs are usually simple and affordable. We also recommend whitening your teeth around every 6 months to keep them shining as bright as they day you got them done.
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The process of bonding depends on how many teeth are being treated, as well as if it is just composite edge bonding or hand layered veneers.
Typically getting 6 teeth treated with Composite Edge Bonding will have a patient in for around 2.5 hours.
Although the appointments are long, we give breaks to our patients if they need it, as well as offering our patients to bring headphones for music or listening to audio books to help pass the time. But, most patients say they can’t believe how fast the time passes.
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Absolutely. Many patients combine these treatments for a full smile makeover, for example, straightening teeth with Invisalign, then refining shape and colour with bonding and whitening afterward.