Anyone can buy porcelain.Not everyone should touch your teeth.
In Georgia, placing veneers is the practice of dentistry and requires a dental license. Metro Atlanta learned why the hard way: self-described veneer technicians with no license, working out of studios, leaving people with damaged enamel, failing gums, and no one to call. Here is what a license protects you from, and how to check anyone’s, including ours.
Veneers are a medical procedure.
- Diagnosis
- A dentist takes X-rays and checks gum health, decay, and bite before any cosmetic plan. Unlicensed operators glue porcelain onto whatever is there — including decay that then progresses underneath.
- Anesthesia
- Local anesthesia, sterilized instruments, and clinical standards are legal requirements of a dental practice. Outside one, none of it is guaranteed, and preparation without proper anesthesia is how enamel gets butchered.
- Accountability
- A licensed dentist answers to the Georgia Board of Dentistry, carries malpractice coverage, and has a license to lose. When unlicensed work fails there is no board, no coverage, and usually no one left to reach.
Veneer techs and Georgia law.
The short answers, with the sources at the bottom of this page.
Is a veneer tech legal in Georgia?
No. Under Georgia law, supplying or fitting any “cosmetic covering” on teeth directly for a patient is the practice of dentistry (O.C.G.A. § 43-11-17), and practicing dentistry requires a license. Georgia issues no “veneer technician” license. A certificate from a weekend course is not one.
What does the American Dental Association say?
In May 2024 the ADA publicly urged caution about “veneer technicians.” The risks it named: infection from unsterilized materials and curing lights, veneers placed over decayed or diseased teeth, nerve injury from excessive grinding, and choking during placement.
How do I check a dentist’s license in Georgia?
Open the Georgia Board of Dentistry’s public license verification and search the person’s name. Confirm three things: the license type is Dentist, the status is active, and whether any public board orders are attached. No result means no license.
What if an unlicensed person already placed my veneers?
See a licensed dentist for an exam and X-rays, even if nothing hurts yet. Decay and gum inflammation under veneers are often silent early on. Bring whatever paperwork or messages you have. You can also report unlicensed practice to the Georgia Board of Dentistry. How correction works here.
Six questions to ask anyone offering veneers.
Ask them of us too. A real practice has nothing to lose by answering.
- 01
Are you a licensed dentist in this state?
Verify at the Georgia Board of Dentistry’s public license lookup. It takes two minutes.
- 02
Will you take X-rays and examine my gums before quoting me?
Porcelain over decay or inflamed tissue fails, and takes the tooth with it.
- 03
Is this porcelain from a dental lab, or composite applied in one sitting?
They are different materials with different lifespans. You should know which you are buying.
- 04
If something fails in a year, who fixes it, under what coverage?
A licensed practice carries malpractice coverage and answers to a board.
- 05
Can I see full cases, before and after in the same light?
Afters alone, in better light, prove nothing.
- 06
Where exactly is your practice?
A real practice has a fixed address you can walk into. Pop-ups and hotel-room appointments are the biggest red flag there is.
A meaningful part of Dr. Ennuson’s caseload is correcting veneer work done cheaply, quickly, or outside a license, here and overseas. If that is you, you will not get a lecture.
If it already went wrong.
A meaningful part of Dr. Ennuson's caseload is correcting veneer work done cheaply, quickly, or outside a license — here and overseas. If that is you, you will not get a lecture. You will get X-rays, an honest read on what is salvageable, and a written plan with a real price.
Correction cases are more complex than first-time veneers and we will be straight about what is involved. What we will not do is make it worse to make it fast.
Check ours.
The same six questions, answered for this practice.
- License
Georgia Board of Dentistry
Doctor of Dental Surgery. Diagnosis, anesthesia, sterile instruments, and a board to answer to. Look the license up yourself.
Verify the license - Training
USC Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry
Photography-led planning and conservative preparation: the approach is to leave you the most tooth, and the most options, decades from now.
About Dr. Ennuson - Practice
A fixed address in metro Atlanta
A real practice you can walk into, not a studio or a hotel room. Most cases take three to four visits, with temporaries the same day as preparation.
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