Notes from a cosmetic studio
Plain-language writing about how cosmetic decisions actually get made: how a shade is chosen, why the preview step exists, when bonding beats porcelain, and what living with veneers is really like. Written by Dr. Camille Reyes and the studio team for this demonstration site.
Smile designHow we choose your shade, and why the brightest one is rarely right
A shade guide has sixteen tabs on it. Only two or three of them will ever look like they grew in your face. Here is how we narrow it down before anything is made.
The processThe preview step, or seeing your smile before it is permanent
Before we make anything, we build the proposed smile over your own teeth so you can wear it, talk in it, and photograph it. Here is how that appointment goes.
Treatment choicesBonding or a veneer for a chipped front tooth
One chipped corner, two very different answers. The cheaper one is right more often than a cosmetic studio has any commercial reason to admit.
AftercareLiving with porcelain, in the first year and the tenth
What actually changes about your day once you have veneers, what genuinely puts them at risk, and the small habits that decide whether year ten looks like year one.
Treatment choicesStraight before bright, or when aligners should come first
Moving a crooked tooth into line costs months. Covering it with porcelain costs enamel. Here is how we decide which one your case actually needs.
Smile designDesigning a smile around a face, not a template
Perfect symmetry is the fastest way to make a smile look bought. What we actually design to is the way your face moves when nobody is asking you to pose.
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