Treatments
Smile design: a plan, before a single tooth is touched
A smile design is a plan built around your own mouth: your case is studied first, and only then is it decided what your smile needs. It is carried out with materials such as ceramic and aesthetic resins, using minimally invasive techniques. It is for people who want to change how their smile looks without trading away their long-term oral health.
Every smile is unique. At our clinic, we carefully analyze each patient to create a personalized smile design tailored to their needs. We work with high-quality materials such as ceramic and aesthetic resins, using minimally invasive techniques to achieve natural results while always protecting your long-term oral health.
The word "design" can sound like a catalog, and here it means the opposite. A smile design is not a template laid over a mouth; it is what comes out of studying that mouth. The clinic states its mission plainly: designing smiles by restoring the balance between function, aesthetics, and oral health. The order of those three words is deliberate. A smile that looks right and bites wrong is not a good result.
Dr. Alexandra Martínez is a specialist in prosthodontics from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, with eighteen years of experience and a particular focus on aesthetic dentistry: smile makeovers in composite resin and ceramic, and complex restorative cases. She works alongside Dr. Juanita Pulido Bustamante, also a specialist in prosthodontics, and with the rest of the team when a case calls for surgery or endodontics.
What this page will not tell you is how many appointments it takes, how long it lasts, or what your result will be. That is not excessive caution: an honest smile design is not quoted or scheduled before the mouth has been seen. All of it is settled at the consultation — and there it comes with specific materials, stages and timing.
If you are writing from outside Colombia, tell us about your case before you book a flight. Photographs and whatever you have already been told are enough to start the conversation, and the treatment schedule is built from the consultation, not before it.
Text expanded by the studio from the clinic’s own material. Pending clinical validation before publication.
Frequently asked questions
What does a smile design include?
A careful analysis of your case and a personalized plan, then carried out with materials such as ceramic and aesthetic resins using minimally invasive techniques. Which combination your smile actually needs is precisely what the consultation is for.
Is a smile design the same as getting veneers?
No. The smile design is the plan; restorations are one of the ways to carry it out. Whether your case is resolved with one approach or another, and in which material, is a clinical decision made on your mouth rather than on the name of a treatment.
Will people be able to tell my teeth have been worked on?
A natural result is the stated aim of the treatment, which is why it is done in ceramic and aesthetic resins with minimally invasive techniques. It is also the question most worth asking out loud at your consultation: what you mean by natural belongs in the plan from the start.
Who does the smile design at the clinic?
Dr. Alexandra Martínez, a specialist in prosthodontics from Universidad Nacional de Colombia with eighteen years of experience and a focus on aesthetic dentistry, together with Dr. Juanita Pulido Bustamante, also a specialist in prosthodontics.
Every mouth is different. The way to know whether this treatment is the right one for you is an assessment with the team.