We all wish for that perfect, sparkling smile. It is the desire not only for confidence and happiness, but also for the way we wish to carry ourselves in this world. But to make this dream come true, especially with aesthetic dentistry, it seems like the trajectory is a little tough or complex.
Where do you start?
What does the process involve?
How long will it take? Will it look natural?
At International Plus, we believe the journey to a new smile should be just as enjoyable and comfortable as what comes after. This guide is your all-access to understanding the mystery of the Hollywood Smile transformation journey, taking you through every transparent, simple, and patient-centric step we will take together in turning that dream smile into your glowing reality.
Step 1: The Digital Smile Design Consultation – Your Smile Blueprint
It begins in the dental chair, with a conversation and a vision. This first step you can think of as a Digital Smile Design (DSD) consultation. This cutting-edge application serves as the personalised footprint of the smile-to-be, ensuring that your completed product is tailored to you, and only you. It often starts with an easy to deliver online consultation, that could happen from anywhere (also!) in the world.
You merely send photos of your teeth and smile with some clear pictures, maybe a panoramic X-ray if you happen to have it, but most importantly, what are you trying to achieve or accomplish?
What kind of smile are you seeking?
Using advanced DSD software, our leading cosmetic dentists are able to analyse your facial features, the lip line you currently have, and your existing teeth with the photos (and sometimes video) that you provide. We use your photos to digitally design your new smile, and then we can actually see how it will look.
We discuss the design with you (considering factors such as the shape, size, colour, and alignment of teeth), then we tweak it for you based on that feedback until we have a blueprint you are in love with. We embark on this DSD journey together for you not to have to second-guess, to feel like a co-creator, and make sure we get the (design) baby of your dreams. Digital Smile Design is not just about aesthetics; it’s an effective communication and diagnostic tool.
Step 2: Your Arrival in Turkey and Initial Preparations
As soon as your individualised smile design is complete, and you accept the terms through DSD, you can book your tickets to Turkey: The next step awaits! With its world-class quality, advanced technology, and affordable luxury, Hollywood Smile Istanbul treatments are the reason why we receive patients from all around the globe. We realise that coming to apply for foreign dental tourism means trust, as well as logistics, so your arrival and first preparations are included in our offer.
Above all, we’ll discuss with you and go through your DSD-approved plan in depth one last time, answer any final concerns, and make sure that everything is clear on both our parts before we move into physical preparation.
Step 3: Gentle Tooth Preparation for Your Veneers or Crowns
The tooth preparation on the teeth is one of the most fearful things patients are concerned about when they consider that they are getting porcelain veneers or crowns. Some are afraid they will be drilled too much or that it will hurt. At International Plus, we are concerned first and foremost about gentle care, the least forceful whenever possible. We are striving to save as much of your natural tooth as possible and provide the best base for your new restorations.
Preparation-wise, porcelain veneers, especially high-end E-max veneers, often require hardly any preparation at all. With high-tech equipment, the dentist generally only removes a millimetre or less of enamel from the front of the tooth, sometimes as small as 0.3 mm to 0.5mm. This is about the same thickness as a contact lens.
This minimal reduction allows room for the veneer to fit within the line of your gums and be bonded into place. The preparation is so minimal that it is usually done with little to no discomfort. That said, local anaesthesia will be used for us to ensure a totally pain-free procedure.
If part of your treatment plan includes crowns (which encompass the whole tooth and may be necessary for teeth that are structurally compromised or those in the back), preparation will be a bit more involved than with veneers. That said, even for cases where crowns are required, conservative preparation using modern techniques and everything being done under effective local anaesthesia leaves no room for any kind of discomfort. We are always gentle and precise.
Step 4: The “Trial Smile” – Your First Look at the New You
Our patients often refer to this as the most exhilarating and assuring step throughout their ultimate smile transformation -the Trial Smile. Once your teeth are gently prepped and digital impressions have been taken, we can provide you with a temporary prototype of how the new smile will look using the approved DSD blueprint. This Test Drive Smile is created from a tooth colored composite and will be temporarily bonded to your prepared teeth.
What’s so special about the Trial Smile?
And, it offers a “test drive” of your new smile before the porcelain restorations are adhesively attached. You can look at yourself in the mirror, see how they complement your face with their new shapes and lengths, speak and smile naturally, take pictures or videos (if you like to get feedback from loved ones), even if you are alone.
This is your opportunity to see the look and feel in person. If there’s something you want amending, for example, by making the tooth slightly shorter or the angle knappier, some last-minute tweaks can be made to your print before it gets sent off.
There are no surprises, and you know 100% that you will love how they look before the final, permanent custom veneers or crowns are produced with the Trial Smile. It’s a reflection on our focus on patient care.
Behind the Scenes: The Art and Science of Crafting Your Custom Veneers
After you have accepted your Trial Smile, the exact digital measurements and design details are transmitted to our master dental laboratory. This is where the miracle of making your final permanent restoration takes place. When it comes to the labour equivalence, Shop-based lab kits are typically crafted with high-end materials (like Indirect Emax or Zirconium crowns), and the unit of work just so happens to be custom-making one crown/veneer at a time.
Advanced CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Design/Computer Aided Manufacturing) technology is employed, which allows highly trained dental technicians to realise the digital design. Blocks of lithium disilicate ceramic are milled with the utmost precision for E max veneers from approved shapes. Enter the art: The technicians handstack various shades of porcelain with painstaking precision, adding nuances in colour, translucency, and surface texture to replicate what natural tooth enamel looks like.
They make sure the restorations will carry light and be in harmony with any natural teeth around them. This digital accuracy, combined with hand craftsmanship, represents the difference between a basic restoration and a masterpiece restoration, which is what gives way to the incredibly lifelike appearance of International Plus.
Step 5: The Final Fitting – Your Official Hollywood Smile Reveal
A few days later, after your excitement has hit the roof and the lab technicians have done their ultimate absolute best, then you come back to the clinic for what is sure to be the momentous climax -it’s when your dream smile gets permanently altered until eternity. They tend to be excited and eager to plan. Your dentist will then remove the temporary Trial Smile gently. Each porcelain veneer or crown is custom-made and fitted individually to fit correctly, have the ideal margin, and bite.
A Clear Timeline: How Long Does a Smile Makeover Take?
Understanding the smile makeover schedule assists you in preparing for travel and setting expectations. All cases are different, but here’s what you can expect with the typical porcelain veneer or crown ticket at International Plus in a normal case. You can anticipate 2 short trips to Istanbul (or occasionally one longer one, as per lab or case details and your dentist’s workflow). A general schedule for two appointments might be:
- Visit 1 (Preparation & Temporaries):
- Duration: 5-7 days in Istanbul
- Treatments: Last consultation, Confirmation of the DSD (Design Smile Digital simulation), Professional cleaning, Minimum tooth preparation (if necessary), Digital impressions/scans, Placement of Trial Smile and Wax-up, Placing high-quality provisionals.
- Interim Period (Lab Work):
- Length: Normally 3-7 days (and sometimes may be sped up).
- The process: Your custom veneers/crowns are created in the dental lab. You keep wearing your temps back at the hotel or throughout town.
- Visit 2 (Final Fitting):
- Time frame: Short 2-3 days in Istanbul (takes place usually right after the interim lab, so overall trip can be around 7-10 days).
- Procedures: Extraction of temporaries, try-on of final veneers/crowns, seats, and adjustments, bonded in. Final checks and polishing.
Caring for Your New Smile: How to Make It Last a Lifetime
Your beautiful new smile is an investment that will boost your confidence and make you happy, a smile that should last for many years of enjoyment, with adequate care, up to 15 years and longer. The good news, however, is that keeping your new beautiful smile looking great, especially if you have porcelain veneers or crowns, isn’t hard:
- Practice Good Oral Hygiene: Brush gently and often, at least twice a day, with a nonabrasive toothpaste that contains fluoride, and floss daily. It is necessary and the fact of having healthy gum tissue around the restorations.
- Avoid Force: It is a strong substance, but don’t bite force into hard substances like nut shells or ice cubes, and do not use your teeth to open items.
- Wear a Night Guard (if Necessary): If you clench or grind your teeth at night, you must be wearing a custom-fit night guard to shield your investment in your veneers/crowns from undue stress.
- General Dental Check-ups: Don’t abandon your regular dentist for a check-up and deep clean every 6 months. They can keep track of the health of your restorations and the space around them.
Why Our All-Inclusive Packages Make Your Journey Stress-Free
When embarking on a trip to commence a smile makeover overseas, it is all about looking forward to an experience and not being the least worried. Because of this, International Plus designed generic care packages with international patients in mind. Benefits typically include:
- Travel Made Easy: VIP arrival and departure airport transfers.
- Luxury Hotel: We offer luxury hotels close to our clinic.
- Full Dental Care: All visits, scans (3D included if required), DSD, temporaries, and ending with E max or Zirconium veneers/crowns.
- Support Services: Patient Coordinator to assist through all process, translation services, and local transfers for all appointments.
- Transparency in pricing: The price offered to you is the price you pay. With our customised service, your smile makeover process will not only be life-changing but also supremely comfortable, convenient, and hassle-free.
Your Questions About the Hollywood Smile Process Answered
It is only natural to have questions when you are thinking about getting a new smile. The Hollywood Smile receives a lot of art, science, and individualisation in between. We believe in giving straightforward, truthful answers that enable you to decide what is best for you. We have mentioned the essentials above, but maybe you want to know more about the number of visits, whether it’s comfortable to prepare, and how long the results last. The following FAQ section replies to some patients’ common questions about the path ahead, supplying brief and calm responses.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. How many trips to Turkey are required for a smile makeover?
In most cases, we can perform a smile makeover in just one efficient visit using porcelain veneers or crowns lasting about 7-10 days. That’s how long the consult, plan, prep, trial smile, and final fit took our streamlined process to accomplish, working with a high-tech range of dental labs that were able to make it for us faster.
2. Does the tooth preparation for veneers hurt?
For the most part, no patients do not feel pain during tooth preparation. It is done under an appropriate local anaesthetic such that the teeth are both fully anaesthetised. The amount of enamel removed for veneers is very minimal and however (usually less than half a millimetre), people rarely have sensitivity after getting their teeth prepared for porcelain. The comfort of the patient is most important.
3. What do I do If I don’t like my “Trial Smile”?
Yes, this is exactly what the Trial Smile was supposed to prevent! It’s designed to give you a sample tasting of life. We will then schedule a second design of the Temporary Smile if you don’t love it at the 80% smile. You have to be 100% happy with the trial smile before we proceed further.
4. How many years do E-max veneers last?
E max veneers will last a beautiful 15+ years when treated accordingly with brushing and dentist visits. They are extremely hard and stain-resistant, so you can have a radiant smile for years and years.
Conclusion
The transition from envisioning that bright, beautiful smile to seeing it for yourself is an extremely well-thought-out, amazingly comfortable, and exceptionally gratifying experience with the right team. At International Plus, we take the latest bioscience & tech tools, such as Digital Smile Design & Trial Smile, and add in artistic finesse along with an unwavering patient-centric mindset to deliver on a smile transformation that is seamless and predictable. Now, the way to the confidence that shines from within you is clearer and more achievable than it’s ever been. They’re just a few steps away from your dream smile.
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