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James came to Navident in his early forties having spent a decade slowly losing confidence in his smile. Two old composite restorations on the central incisors had darkened, the canines were chipped from years of grinding, and the enamel on the upper anterior teeth was visibly worn. He was not unhappy with his teeth — he was unhappy with how they no longer matched the rest of him.
Three private dentists in London quoted between £7,500 and £9,200 for ten porcelain veneers on the upper arch, with no clear preview of the final result and waiting times of two to three months between phases. James started researching abroad after a colleague mentioned Navident in conversation.
What persuaded him was the first video consultation. Dr. Koci walked him through a digital smile design — a software preview of the final result, built from photographs and a quick at-home scan — before he had committed to anything. He could see, on screen, exactly how the new smile would sit on his face.
James flew in for a four-day preparation visit. Intraoral scans replaced the impressions he had braced himself for, the teeth were minimally prepared under local anaesthetic, and provisional veneers were fitted the same afternoon. He went back to London wearing temporaries that already looked better than anything he had had in years.
Five weeks later he returned for the three-day delivery visit. The in-house lab had milled and stained ten E-max units to match the shade preview, with the final adjustments done chairside in natural light. The fitting itself took a single afternoon and the bite was checked over the next two days before he flew home.
James paid roughly a third of the lowest London quote, with flights and a central Tirana hotel included by Navident on both trips. The veneers replicate the translucency of natural enamel and have held up perfectly through the eighteen-month follow-up.
"The before-and-after photos still surprise me," he said at his last check-up. "It does not look like dental work — it just looks like my smile, only better."
