Preview and Create a Smile Designed Around Your Features
Digital Smile Design helps plan cosmetic and restorative treatment with greater clarity and control. It allows you to understand your treatment plan in advance and take an active role in shaping your final result.
Why Patients Trust Us for Digital Smile Design
✔ Comprehensive smile planning that considers both aesthetics and function
✔ Advanced digital imaging and scanning for precise treatment mapping
✔ Consistent, guided workflow from planning through final restoration
✔ Restorations designed for comfort, proper function, and natural appearance
✔ Smile designs that align with your facial features and overall balance
What Is Digital Smile Design?
Digital Smile Design is a cosmetic and restorative treatment planning process that uses advanced imaging and simulation techniques to design a smile around your facial structure, oral anatomy, and treatment goals.
This process may include:
- Cone beam 3D scans
- Intraoral scanner
- Facial imaging
- Digital diagnostic wax-ups
- Computer-guided preparations
By combining these technologies, we create a digital mockup to evaluate and refine your treatment plan before procedures begin, improving the predictability of the final restorations.
How Prosthodontic Expertise Supports Digital Smile Design
Digital planning is only one part of achieving a predictable result. The experience and training behind the design play a critical role in how well the final restorations look, feel, and function.
Dr. Morris and Dr. Chen are prosthodontists who specialize in designing and restoring teeth. Their training focuses on complex restorative cases, including crowns, bridges, implant restorations, and full smile rehabilitation.
This expertise allows them to evaluate how each restoration will function within your bite while also considering aesthetics and long-term durability. The digital plan is not just a visual preview. It is a clinically guided blueprint used to design restorations that fit accurately, function properly, and align with your overall smile.
By combining advanced digital tools with specialized restorative training, your treatment is planned with a high level of precision from the start.
Who Can Benefit from Digital Smile Design?
This approach is well suited for patients planning cosmetic or restorative treatment where precision, bite alignment, and facial balance all need to be considered together.
You may benefit from this process if your treatment involves:
- Improving tooth shape, size, or alignment
- Restoring worn or damaged teeth with crowns or bridges
- Replacing missing teeth with dentures or implant restorations
- Correcting uneven gum levels or excess gum display
- Rebuilding multiple teeth as part of a full smile rehabilitation
It is especially valuable in cases where multiple treatments need to work together, allowing each step to be planned in advance for a more predictable final result.
What Can Digital Smile Design Be Used For?
This approach supports a wide range of cosmetic and restorative procedures by improving planning accuracy before treatment begins. It is especially valuable when aesthetics, bite balance, and facial proportions need to work together for a predictable final result.
Crowns and Bridge Restorations
High-resolution imaging and CAD/CAM technology allow crowns and bridges to be fabricated with excellent precision, fit, and aesthetics.
Dentures
Digital impressions and wax-ups improve the design of full and partial dentures, creating a smile that fits comfortably and complements facial features.
Dental Implant Restorations
Precise digital impressions, bite analysis, and facial imaging support the planning of implant restorations. This helps ensure the final crown, bridge, or full-arch restoration fits accurately, functions properly, and blends naturally with surrounding teeth.
Veneers
Veneers are carefully planned based on tooth shape, size, and facial proportions to create a balanced, natural-looking result with improved symmetry.
Gummy Smile Treatment
For patients with excess gum display, digital smile simulations help plan gum contouring, laser reshaping, crown lengthening, or restorative enhancements with improved accuracy.
What Are the Benefits of Digital Smile Design?
Digital Smile Design offers important cosmetic and restorative advantages.
- Preview your smile before treatment begins
- Improve restorative precision and fit
- Better facial harmony and smile proportions
- More predictable cosmetic outcomes
- Improved comfort and function
- Better planning for advanced implant cases
For many patients, this process improves confidence because they can visualize the expected outcome before committing to treatment.
How Much Does Digital Smile Design Cost?
When performed at Morris Dental Solutions, the cost is $150-200. The cost depends on the complexity of the case and the treatments involved after the digital planning phase.
Because Digital Smile Design is often part of cosmetic or restorative dentistry, pricing varies depending on whether the treatment includes crowns, bridges, dentures, implants, or gummy smile correction.
Our team will provide a clear treatment estimate during your consultation.
Take the First Step Toward Your Ideal Smile
Digital Smile Design allows you to preview, refine, and confidently move forward with cosmetic or restorative treatment. At Morris Dental Solutions, we use advanced digital workflows to design smiles that look natural, function properly, and complement your facial features.
Schedule your consultation today at our dental office in Buffalo Grove, call (847) 215-1511 or visit us at 195 N Arlington Heights Rd Ste 160, Buffalo Grove, IL 60089.
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A cone beam CT scan creates 3D images of your mouth and jaw, helping improve diagnostic accuracy and restorative planning.
Intraoral scanning creates a digital 3D model of your teeth without traditional impression materials.
A digital wax-up is a virtual smile model used to preview treatment outcomes before procedures begin.
It allows the final restoration to be designed first, then guides the positioning of the implant restoration so it fits properly, functions correctly, and aligns with your overall smile.
