You wouldn’t build a house without a blueprint, and your smile deserves the exact same care. #veneer

And it's a great way to manage patient expectations and my own. I want to know what's possible before I start treating a patient. What I do with cosmetic dentistry, dental facial aesthetics, anti-aging dentistry, all the stuff we've talked about involves the smile design. And what we do is we take the patient's existing smile, we have molds and models, we will create mockups. I can do that either in the mouth or on a model, but eventually you do see it in the mouth because we want to see where the smile's going. You always want a blueprint, right? You never want to build a house without a blueprint. You never want to build a smile without one either. And it's a great way to manage patient expectations and my own. I want to know what's possible before I start treating a patient. I always want to know where we're going before we even begin. So after the planning process and during, we look at the patient's facial structure, we look at the patient's features, their coloration, and really hone in on the different details and nuances of the smile that really accentuate things for them. Once that's done, we actually start the process and we, what we call, prepare the teeth. We wanna make sure that the mouth is healthy before we start anything aesthetic because I think that health is really the foundation of all beauty. It's not the other way around. And a lot of times having a healthy mouth, the byproduct will naturally be a beautiful smile.