Portrait on a dark ground, studio light.
I do not believe in perfect smiles. I believe in smiles that suit the people who wear them.
I am Cristina Păcurar, a dentist in Sibiu, and my practice is dedicated to restorative, aesthetic and prosthetic dentistry.
Things made with precision have always drawn me. In dentistry I found the place where medical rigour, patience and attention to detail meet naturally, and every smile I rebuild has to look like it belongs to the person wearing it: natural, functional, in harmony with their own features.
The way I work is perhaps closer to a craft than to the picture most people have of medicine.
So every case begins with a conversation. Before photographs, scans or treatment plans, I want to understand the person in front of me.
Where I come from.
The list is enough. I do not need superlatives to say what I have done.
- Doctor of Dental Medicine, UMF Târgu Mureș, 2012-2018
- MSc in Oral and Aesthetic Rehabilitation, UMFST George Emil Palade Târgu Mureș, 2022-2023
- Doctoral candidate in Orthodontics and Dento-Facial Orthopaedics, UMFST Târgu Mureș, since October 2023
- Erasmus+ twice, Gross Dentistas clinic, Málaga, 2016 and 2017
- Romanian, Spanish, English, German
What I learned, and who I learned it from.
I do not think any dentist is formed on their own. My mentors shaped the way I look at dentistry today, and being grateful to them is part of the path.
From my student years I had the privilege of being guided by Senior Lecturer Dr. Cristina Molnar-Varlam and by Prof. Dr. Mariana Păcurar, under whose supervision I wrote my degree thesis and continue my doctoral research.
One period that counted was the time spent in Prof. Paulo Malo's team, where I went deeper into the prosthetic side of the All-on-4 technique.
The courses that followed I did not pick by name. I picked them by what I wanted to be able to do afterwards.
And I am still learning. The list of people I want to learn from is still long.
Photography
Dental Photography Course, Milos Miladinov, 2020. So that two frames taken months apart can be compared.
Morphology
THE CLLONES, Paulo Kano, 2026. The shape of the new tooth, copied from real ones.
Veneers
Galip Gurel post-congress, Istanbul, 2021. All about veneers, Maxim Belograd, Prague, 2023. Smile is believing, Răzvan Savu, 2021. International Congresses of Dental Aesthetics, Milan, 2019 and Istanbul, 2021.
Occlusion
Dental occlusion in prosthetic practice, Smaranda Buduru, Cluj-Napoca, 2021. MRI TMJ seminar, Gregor Slavicek and Giulia Tanteri, Stuttgart, 2021. FACE International Meeting, Bucharest, 2023. This is what decides whether the work survives the way you bite.
Digital planning
The Digital Dentistry Society Global Congress, Lake Como, 2021. Designing Smiles, Michael Apa and Christian Coachman, Miami, 2024. Optimizing Clinical Outcomes, John Kois and Christian Coachman, Miami, 2025.
Soft tissue
Ortho-Perio Synergy, Stefano Parma Benfenati and Giuliano Maino, 2022. Periodontal Consideration in Aesthetic Dentistry, David Montalvo, Malmö, 2025. Advanced Soft Tissue Techniques, Giovanni Zucchelli, 2026. The gum decides where the work ends.
Predictability, not luck.
In aesthetic dentistry, precision means predictability. The result is built at the planning stage, not on the day the work is finished.
That is why I work with digital impressions, an intraoral scanner and 3D planning (digital smile design) before the first step of the treatment. I can show you the direction we are heading in, we can adjust the details together, and we take the decisions before anything is done to the tooth.
A treatment has gone well when it feels natural. So natural that afterwards only the smile stays with you, not the story of the treatment.
Let's talk about what bothers you.
A first conversation costs nothing but time, and more often than not it settles whether you need a large treatment or a small one.