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Where Technology Meets Artistry
Digital Smile Design
Digital Smile Design (DSD) represents the most modern, patient-centered approach to smile transformation available today. Through meticulous analysis of your facial and dental structures using state-of-the-art videography and digital technology, we create completely personalized treatment plans that harmonize with your unique features.
DSD isn't just technology—it's a philosophy that places you at the center of your smile design process.
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Proven Expertise
Pioneers in Smile Design Excellence
Pioneers
First ever certified DSD clinic in the United States
Extensive Training
Highest level of training available.
Dr. Cardenas is a certified DSD Master
Proven Success
Hundreds of successful smile transformations completed
Exclusive Excellence
Why Choose a Certified DSD Clinic?
DSD Clinics form an elite, hand-selected group of practices worldwide that share a passion for combining dentistry, aesthetics, and technology in their pursuit of excellence. We maintain the highest quality standards of smile design and patient care.
At Maria Cardenas DMD, we didn't just adopt Digital Smile Design—we pioneered it. As the first certified Digital Smile Design Clinic in the United States, we've been transforming smiles with cutting-edge technology and artistic precision since 2016.
Dr. Cardenas, a certified DSD Master, continues to lecture and collaborate with DSD courses internationally, ensuring our practice remains at the forefront of smile design innovation.
Digital Smile Design
The 5 DSD Smile Makeover Standards
Only certified DSD clinics follow these rigorous standards to guarantee exceptional results:
- Digitization - Comprehensive data collection
- Design - Facial-driven smile planning
- Smile Test Drive - Preview your new smile before you start treatment
- Guided Procedures - Precision treatment execution
- Quality Assurance - Ongoing monitoring and refinement
Your Journey to a Perfectly Natural Smile
The Digital Smile Design Process
We start all our aesthetic consultations with a careful analysis of the patient’s facial and dental characteristics. We then begin to design by looking at the whole picture, incorporating personality, facial features, dental analysis, and treatment goals. This design is then transformed into a treatment plan that integrates biology, structure, and function in order to achieve longevity.
We design using videos, photography, X-rays, and 3D imagery, and we can simulate the outcome of every case, prior to beginning treatment, by creating before-and-after videos for each patient.
We use visual communication with our patients, showing them the final result and how they would look in a way that is simple and easy for anyone to understand.
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Capturing Your Unique Blueprint
1. Digitization:
We gather comprehensive information about your teeth, mouth, and facial features using:
- High-resolution photography
- Dynamic video analysis
- Digital X-rays and 3D imaging
- Intraoral scanning
- Cone Beam CT scans
- Facial scanning technology
- Digital bite analysis
Why so thorough? Because every detail matters when designing your perfect smile. This data creates a complete digital 3D model of your face, mouth, and teeth as the foundation for your transformation.
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No two faces are alike
2. Facial-Driven Design
Digital Smile Design is a completely personalized experience for each patient taking into account:
- Your unique facial proportions
- Personality and lifestyle
- Aesthetic preferences
- Functional requirements
- Natural movement patterns
Facial features will help us understand the symmetry of the face and the harmony of each smile.
The patient’s facial features drive the digital models and simulation. The smile design is focused on bringing symmetry and beauty to the smile by guiding tooth position and adjusting tooth shape and color to fit the facial features.
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Digital Documentation
3. Visualization & Collaboration
Before any treatment begins, you'll see exactly how you'll look with your new smile through:
- Before-and-after videos
- 3D simulations
- Digital mockups
- Clear visual communication
Most of our documentation is performed through videos, which allow us to see the smile in movement and understand the changes that will be required to achieve the maximum harmony and aesthetic potential.
The patient’s facial features and smile are documented with the latest iPhone dental videography technology and professional studio photography equipment.
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Exclusive Smile Test Drive
4. Test Drive Your Smile
Our exclusive "Test Drive" allows you to actually experience your new smile before committing to treatment. You'll see and feel the transformation, ensuring complete confidence in your decision.
The final Digital Smile Design can be converted into a mock-up that will allow the patient to visualize the final outcome. This design, once approved by the patient, will guide the rest of the treatment.
The Digital Smile Design is based on complete transparency between dentist and patient. It is the patient’s wants and needs that ultimately determine the end results as demonstrated by the simulation.
The simulation also allows Dr. Cardenas to thoroughly communicate the outcome of the treatment to the patient. This allows patients to feel confident in their treatment by seeing the simulated end result (and provide their feedback) before treatment begins.
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Test Drive Your Smile Video
Capturing Your Unique Blueprint
5. Precision Execution
Using digitally-guided procedures and our in-house labs master ceramists, we execute your treatment plan with unparalleled accuracy and quality, ensuring the final result matches your approved design perfectly.
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Pioneers in Digital Smile Design
Ready to Experience the DSD Difference?
As pioneers in Digital Smile Design, we've transformed hundreds of smiles using the most advanced technology and artistic expertise available.
Your journey to the perfect smile begins with understanding your unique vision and ends with a transformation that exceeds your expectations.
Schedule your DSD consultation today and discover why we're the most trusted smile design clinic in Massachusetts.
- Where smiles ignite confidence.
- Where technology meets artistry.
- Where your perfect smile becomes reality.
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Our Services
Maria Cardenas DMD offers a wide array of cosmetic, implant and general dentistry services so that creating a beautiful smile is effortless.
