I've decided to get my teeth fixed. Braces or Veneers?

I have always thought smiles with shorter lateral incisors are really cute Me too! I LOVE them.

Most people want their teeth to end up like yours! I appreciate it's not the advice you asked for, but I wouldn't touch them. Save yourself a fortune and treat yourself instead.

Invisiline braces are probably your best bet. You can hardly tell when someone is wearing them, and your teeth look already pretty straight so you wouldn't be wearing them for that long. Personally I think veneers look pretty bad/fake/denture-y looking and should only be used if your teeth are really in bad condition. Honestly, I thought the picture you posted was what you wanted your teeth to look like. You have a nice mouth :)

That photo looks like some fairly straight teeth, just uneven on their lengths. I'm currently about 1/3 done with braces as an adult, but my teeth were WAY out of alignment, making braces necessary (invisalign only works if your teeth need slight adjustments). I ruled out veneers and crowns because that requires modifying your teeth and leaving them susceptible to problems later on (you basically destroy a tooth to put a crown on it, then they can break, crack, come loose, etc). Full braces are fairly expensive, mine are some sort of futuristic top of the line clear model that ran nearly $5,000. For me figuring this stuff out, I knew a friend of a friend that was a dental hygienist, so I got to pepper them with many questions, called up about half a dozen orthodontists and talked to my own long-term dentist and got some recommendations. I went with the office that seemed to be both knowledgeable and have the latest and greatest options for making it go smoothly.

I'm sorry this is no help at all, your mouth etc etc, but I have to say I LOVE your teeth! Just off the top of your head, anything else you'd love to spend 5 grand on?

Just wanted to say, along with some of the others here, that your smile is beautiful! Slightly off-topic, it's your mouth and all that... but I'm glad you've decided on the braces/invisalign route because I wouldn't destroy a thing in there with veneers, crowns, etc.

Veneers involve removing some parts of a healthy tooth. I would not do that to your teeth; they look pretty straight, white, and symmetrical to me. I agree. Just google "snooki new" and "teeth" shows up as the first suggestion. That's what veneers look like. And her teeth weren't all that bad to begin with either. If you go into a cosmetic dentist and tell them you want veneers, you are going to end up with something that looks like her, since your teeth are already pretty straight.

Veneers involve removing some parts of a healthy tooth. I would not do that to your teeth; they look pretty straight, white, and symmetrical to me. If braces (invisalign or perhaps the kind that go on the back of your teeth, or clear brackets) can do what you want I'd do that, but otherwise I'd let them be.

Nobody here can give you a truly accurate ballpark of costs because your teeth can present one way but have unexpected underlying structural stuff going on that can completely cancel out one treatment or another. I thought for sure I could get Invisalign and started budgeting for that but after seeing a few different orthodontists (which I recommend you do too) I discovered that my mouth could not accommodate or properly respond to Invisalign and I would need a more complicated method of braces to fix my teeth. Many orthodontists will give you your consultation for free, so go to as many as you can (within reason) to get a more accurate assessment of your teeth and the steps needed to achieve the look you want. :)