How I think a treatment through.
Four principles, in the order in which they matter.
I do not start from what would look better. I start from what you have, and from what can be kept of it.
Function
A beautiful smile that cannot chew does not last. Occlusion is settled before colour, even though colour is the part you see in the mirror.
Aesthetics
Harmony over perfection. Absolute symmetry reads as false, because nature does not contain it. What you are after is balance, not identity between left and right.
Precision
Precision means predictability. No surprises, only the result you were shown before the work started.
Individuality
There is no universal smile. Tooth shape has to do with your face, your age and the way you speak, not with a catalogue.
What a scanner sees, and what it does not.
Digital dentistry gives me the power to see more, plan better and communicate more precisely what is coming next.
But technology does not replace the human eye. It makes it more precise.
A scanner does not decide which shape suits you. It only tells me, with an exactness the hand does not have, where things are.
- Digital Smile Design
- Intraoral scanning
- 4D functional analysis
- Digital planning
Why layered ceramics.
A natural tooth does not have one colour. Between the third next to the gum and the incisal edge, the difference measured on a single tooth runs more than three times past the threshold at which a patient still accepts it as "the same colour".
A monochrome restoration is spotted for exactly that reason, even when it hit the average shade perfectly. Layered ceramics rebuild the gradient, the translucency of the edge and the surface texture, which are the things the eye recognises a tooth by without knowing why.
I start from what bothers you.
Tell me what you would like to be different and I will tell you what can be done and what cannot.