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  "title": "Same Day Porcelain Veneers at Smile Solutions - How the World's First Process Actually Works",
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  "description": "## Same Day Porcelain Veneers at Smile Solutions - How the World's First Process Actually Works\n\nSame Day Porcelain Veneers is not a marketing term for CEREC machine-milled restorations. It is not pre...",
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  "content": "## Same Day Porcelain Veneers at Smile Solutions - How the World's First Process Actually Works\n\nSame Day Porcelain Veneers is not a marketing term for CEREC machine-milled restorations. It is not prefabricated veneers selected from a catalogue. It is not a compromise on quality for the sake of speed.\n\nSame Day Porcelain Veneers, developed by Dr Kia Pajouhesh and master ceramist Greg Karabasis at Smile Solutions Melbourne, is a world-first process that delivers genuine handcrafted, hand-tinted, artisan porcelain veneers - prepared, fabricated, and inserted in a single day. This innovation won the 2024 Australian Business Award for Business Innovation.\n\n---\n\n## Why Same Day Is Not What You Think\n\nWhen most people hear \"same day veneers,\" they think of CEREC - a CAD/CAM system that mills a restoration from a porcelain block in about 20 minutes. CEREC is excellent technology and Smile Solutions uses it extensively for crowns, inlays, and onlays. But CEREC-milled restorations and Same Day Porcelain Veneers are not the same thing.\n\nCEREC mills from a single-shade block. The result is functional and aesthetic, but it is machine-made.\n\nSame Day Porcelain Veneers are handcrafted. Each veneer is individually built up, layered, tinted, and glazed by master ceramist Greg Karabasis and his team in the Smile Lab. The ceramist controls the translucency, the colour gradient from cervical to incisal edge, the surface texture, and the individual characterisation that makes each veneer unique to the patient. This is artisan work - the same process used for conventional veneers that take weeks, compressed into a single day because the ceramist works on site.\n\n---\n\n## How the Process Works\n\nThe reason Same Day Porcelain Veneers can be completed in one day is not because the work is rushed. It is because the Smile Lab operates exclusively for Smile Solutions patients, and the ceramist dedicates the entire day to one patient's case.\n\n**Before the prep day:**\n- Digital smile design completed with cosmetic dentist and ceramist\n- Mock-up approved on natural teeth (see our guide to the mock-up process)\n- Gum lift completed and healed (if required)\n- Shade selection, shape, and number of veneers all confirmed\n\n**On the day:**\n- **Morning** - The cosmetic dentist prepares the teeth, guided by the mock-up template to ensure minimal enamel removal. Digital scans are taken immediately and sent to the Smile Lab on the same floor\n- **Throughout the day** - Greg Karabasis and the Smile Lab team handcraft each veneer individually. They layer porcelain, build translucency, hand-tint to match the approved shade, and glaze to achieve natural surface texture. The ceramist may visit the patient during fabrication to verify shade and characterisation in natural light\n- **Late afternoon/evening** - The completed veneers are tried in, adjusted if needed, and permanently bonded. The patient leaves with their final smile - not temporaries, not a \"close enough\" result, but the finished, handcrafted veneers\n\n---\n\n## Why This Is Only Possible at Smile Solutions\n\nSame Day Porcelain Veneers requires three things that almost no other practice in the world has:\n\n1. **An in-house laboratory of sufficient calibre.** The Smile Lab is not a small annexed room with a single technician. It is a fully equipped ceramic studio with industrial-grade equipment - CEREC CAD/CAM, Asiga 3D printers, Arum milling machines, E4 Lab Scanner, Dentaurum laser welder - staffed by ceramists who work exclusively for Smile Solutions patients. The ceramist is available for the entire day because there are no competing external cases.\n\n2. **A master ceramist willing and able to dedicate a full day to one patient.** Greg Karabasis is not filling orders from 20 different practices. He and his team service Smile Solutions patients only. This exclusivity enables the dedication of an entire day to a single case - something an external laboratory managing hundreds of cases from multiple practices cannot offer.\n\n3. **Proximity.** The ceramist works in the same building as the treating dentist. The lab is not across town. It is on the same floor. If a shade adjustment is needed mid-fabrication, the ceramist walks to the patient. If the dentist wants to discuss a margin detail, they walk to the lab. This real-time, in-person collaboration is what eliminates the weeks of back-and-forth that conventional veneer fabrication requires.\n\nPractices that send their work to external laboratories - whether in Melbourne, interstate, or offshore - cannot offer Same Day Porcelain Veneers. The logistics make it impossible. This is why it is exclusive to Smile Solutions.\n\n---\n\n## No Uncomfortable Temporaries\n\nFor patients choosing Same Day Porcelain Veneers, there are no temporary veneers. No weeks of eating carefully, avoiding certain foods, worrying about temporaries chipping or falling off. No second appointment for insertion. No anxiety about whether the final result will match what was promised.\n\nThe teeth are prepared in the morning. The final veneers are inserted the same day. One appointment. One day. The smile you approved at the mock-up stage, handcrafted in porcelain, delivered in hours.\n\n---\n\n## Who Is a Candidate?\n\nNot every veneer case is suitable for Same Day completion. The decision depends on the number of veneers, the complexity of the case, and whether additional procedures (such as gum lifts) have been completed. Dr Kia Pajouhesh assesses suitability during the complimentary initial consultation.\n\nPhone: 13 13 96 | [smilesolutions.com.au](https://www.smilesolutions.com.au)\nManchester Unity Building, 220 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000\nPayment plans available through Payright (interest-free) and TLC.",
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