Originally Posted by The Other Sweetie

If there's one thing I know, it's dentistry. First of all, a cap and a veneer are two different things. As for price, if you know anyone paying $200/veneer, they're getting them extremely cheap. A realistic figure is more along the lines of $1,000/veneer - at least in the US (I know someone who got a roundhouse in Bulgaria for $500 - it would've cost him $12k here). One of my accounts charges his patients $1,600 per veneer. I won't even tell you what we charge him for them. It would make you sick knowing the markup percentage.

If the dentist is good, the pain should be relatively minor. The dentist basically shaves down the tooth and the veneer is just a thin shell that'll fit over it, bonded by permanent cement.

Veneers are only done on anterior teeth. The things machinegunkelly is talking about sounds like inlays or onlays, not veneers.

CAD/CAM technology is good. We use that ourselves on a couple of our products, but it's only as good as the dentist taking the impression.