This attractive young lady appeared at my office with a broken filling. She recently had upper and lower porcelain veneers placed and I was very impressed with the result. However, when I requested a photo of the before shot I was surprised. She had spent 12 hours at the dentist and paid more than $30,000.00 when she could have had a very good result by just performing re-contouring and reshaping of her natural teeth, a one hour procedure at a cost of about $775.00. Now she is subject to wear and tear of these veneer restorations and eventually will probably have to have them replaced.