Braces or veneers?

Haha that's the question I've been contemplating upon for the past one month! I visited dentist@orchard for a free consultation on Smiledesign (instant braces) and also the dental clinic near my house (cost $40 for the consulation!! Lol)! So here are the differences between these two..may not apply to everyone unless you have rabbit teeth like mine! Haha so here goes!

Smile design (crowns and veneers)	Braces
Very fast. Process can be completed in a month!	Slow. Have to wear them for 2-2.5 years
Painless	Painful. Will have ulcers.
No need to extract any teeth	Have to extract 4 teeth + 2 wisdom teeth!
No need to take MC	After taking out the wisdom teeth, I will have 5 days of MC which means it will be painful!!
Have to extract the nerves of my front teeth in order to shift them which means I won't be able to feel my teeth ever again	No need to extract nerves
$6k++ for only the 6 front teeth	$7k++ for all the teeth which means I will have nice teeth for both the top and bottom rows! Price inclusive of the monthly reviews and X-ray!
No need to wear retainers	Need to wear retainers for life
Have to shorten and thin my two front teeth so that dentist can insert crowns	No need to change the size of my teeth

Okay so as you can see, there are a lot of considerations! The cheaper but more painful option would be braces but after the 2 to 2.5 years, my teeth will look nice forever if I wear the retainers regularly haha and there won't be any problem about the crowns/veneers breaking! Though the Smile design dentist did tell me that most of his patients do not experience breakage, I'm still quite apprehensive because I'll never know when I accidentally bite onto something hard! Then the crowns/veneers would drop off and everyone will see the shortened and thinned original teeth!! Haha I'd like to keep it real!! No pain, no gain right! Haha I guess the trigger for me was when someone who did veneers before told me to go for traditional braces instead! I thought he'd be more supportive of veneers! Haha so yea! I think it would be worth it!! Yay!! And thank God my grandfather is gonna sponsor this whole thing!! Haha my grandma wants me to visit a specialist at Parkway even though I already told her that the cost of doing braces at the dental clinic near my house is much cheaper! But oh well! Haha pray that everything will go smoothly!! =D

God bless, take care & byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! =D