There's a gap most patients don't see: the weeks between getting your teeth prepped and actually receiving your veneers. That gap isn't downtime. It's where most of the quality control happens.

Communication with the lab starts before a single tooth is prepped, not after. We work with a ceramics lab in Madrid, and the process involves several rounds of digital review before manufacturing even begins. The lab sends digital planning files first: proportions, shape, how each edge will reflect light. We review those files against a checklist, comparing angles and symmetry, and it's common to go back and forth three or four times on a single mockup before approving it. Once approved, the lab moves to manufacturing and sends another full set of images showing shade, edge detail, and texture, another checkpoint before anything ships.

In between, patients typically wear temporaries for a period of weeks, sometimes longer, so we can confirm shape and function actually work in daily life before committing to the final version. Shade is harder to judge on a temporary, but shape and how it functions when you talk and chew are things we want tested and approved first.

All of this adds time. A full case, without orthodontics involved, generally runs six to eight weeks from start to finish. That's not the fastest a case could theoretically move. It's the fastest it can move without skipping the review steps that catch problems before they're permanent. Fast, cheap, and done well rarely coexist, and we've chosen which two matter most.