Digital Smile Design with Mock-up

A digital smile design is a planning service that previews how a cosmetic result could look before any treatment begins. Using photographs and a digital design, the dentist plans the ideal shape and proportions of the teeth and produces a physical mock-up you can try in the mouth. It removes the guesswork from cosmetic dentistry, letting you see and agree the outcome before committing to bonding, veneers or crowns.

Digital smile design brings predictability to cosmetic dentistry by planning the result on screen, and then in the mouth, before any irreversible work is carried out. The dentist takes photographs and records of your face and teeth and uses them to design a smile that suits your features — adjusting the length, width, edges and symmetry of the teeth digitally until the proportions look right. This design then becomes the blueprint for whatever treatment follows, whether that is composite bonding, ceramic veneers or crowns. A key part of the service at ArtiSmile is the mock-up: the agreed design is transferred into a temporary form that can be placed directly over your own teeth, giving you a preview of the proposed shape and smile line that you can see and feel before deciding to proceed. This makes it much easier to discuss changes, set realistic expectations and choose between treatment options. For the dentist, the design also guides the technical work — for example the flow-injection bonding technique the clinic offers uses the design to place composite precisely. The fee covers the planning and mock-up stage; the cost of the actual bonding, veneers or crowns is separate and is quoted once you have agreed the design. It is an especially worthwhile first step for anyone considering a noticeable change to several front teeth.