Porcelain veneers
Layered ceramic veneers designed from a digital mock-up you approve in the chair, fitted across a single four-night stay.
- Published fee
- $885
- per tooth, layered feldspathic or pressed ceramic
- Trips
- 2
- Nights
- 4
Veneer cases are the reason most patients stay four nights rather than two. The design is built digitally, printed as a trial smile and worn before anything is prepared, so the shape and length are agreed before a bur touches a tooth. Ceramic work is done by the lab Dental Art Center has used since it opened, in the same city, which is what makes a four-night turnaround possible at this fee.
The fee covers
- Digital smile design and printed trial smile
- Shade mapping under corrected lighting
- Minimal-preparation ceramic veneers, per tooth quoted
- Temporary veneers between preparation and fit
- Bonding, finishing and occlusal check
- One adjustment appointment before you fly home
Quoted separately
- Whitening of the teeth that are not being veneered
- Gum contouring, if the design needs it
- Root canal treatment on a tooth found to be non-vital
- Flights, hotel and ground transport
One case treated at this clinic. The upper half is the finished result, the lower half is the same teeth before treatment. Unretouched, and published with the patient’s written consent.
Compared with California, where the same case is estimated at $17,480, this works out 51% lower once travel is paid.
What actually happens, in the order it happens.
2 trips, 4 nights in Oklahoma City in total. Nothing on this list is scheduled until a written fee has been agreed.
Day one
About 3 hours
Records, scan, photographs, shade mapping and the digital design session. You approve the printed trial smile before preparation is scheduled.
Day two
About 4 hours
Preparation, final scan and temporary veneers. The lab receives the case the same afternoon.
Day four
About 3 hours
Try-in, adjustments, bonding and polish. Occlusion checked and photographed.
Day five
30 minutes
Final review and adjustment appointment before departure, plus a night guard scan if your bite needs one.
Who this suits, and who it does not.
Screening happens before you book a flight, not at the chair. If the case is wrong for this treatment you are told at the assessment stage, with an alternative.
A good fit
- Discoloured teeth that do not respond to whitening
- Worn or chipped anterior edges
- Small gaps and mild irregularity where orthodontics is declined
- Old composite bonding that keeps staining
Not a fit
- Significant crowding better corrected with aligners first
- Active bruxism without a plan to manage it
- Teeth with insufficient enamel for reliable bonding
Where porcelain veneers costs the most to have done at home.
Net of the full travel budget for 8 units. Open a state for the complete breakdown.
Price porcelain veneers against your own state.
Travel is subtracted before the saving is shown. Increase the unit count and watch the travel line stay flat while the saving grows.
Treatment
Porcelain veneer
per tooth, layered feldspathic or pressed ceramic
Your state figure is a modelled estimate, not a quote. The Oklahoma City figure is the published clinic fee. How these numbers are built.
Estimated net saving, travel included
8 teeth of porcelain veneer treatment in California is estimated at $17,480. The same treatment at Dental Art Center, with flights, hotel and ground transport counted, comes to $8,546.
Modelled private-pay fee around Los Angeles
Clinic fee $7,080 plus $1,466 of travel
Cheaper here does not mean lesser here.
The implant systems, the ceramics and the scanners are the same ones used by the practices charging twice as much. Five structural things make the invoice different, and none of them is the dentistry.
Commercial rent, not coastal rent
Clinical space on the north-east side of Oklahoma City costs a fraction of what the same square footage costs in Manhattan, Boston or West Los Angeles. That difference sits in the overhead line of every single fee a practice quotes, and it is the largest component of the gap.
The lab is in the same city
Ceramics are designed and finished locally rather than shipped out of state or overseas. Shorter turnaround means fewer temporary stages, fewer appointments, and no courier cost buried in the crown fee.
One clinician owns the plan
Dr. Lorents plans, places and restores. There is no referral fee between a surgeon and a restorative dentist, and no second consultation charged to hand the case over.
Trips are planned, not improvised
Out-of-state cases are scheduled in blocks so chair time is used fully. A predictable schedule costs less to run than a diary full of gaps, and that saving is reflected in the quote rather than kept.
No insurance billing department
Fees are published and paid directly. Practices that bill insurers carry administrative cost and inflate list prices to survive network discounts. A flat published fee does not need that padding.
Get porcelain veneers quoted for your case, in writing.
A written range, the number of nights the case needs and the number of trips, back within two working days. No card, no deposit, no obligation to travel.
Modelled gap on this case
$8,934 (51% less)
- A written fee range, not a starting-from figure
- Trips and nights, so you can price the whole thing
- An honest no if travelling is not worth it
Takes about four minutes. You can upload photographs, scans and the quote you already hold on the way through.