Digital Smile Design in Korea

How Digital Smile Design works

DSD starts with records rather than drilling. We take full-face and close-up photos, a short smile video and an intraoral scan. The design is drawn over your face, so tooth length, width and midline follow your lips, eyes and facial midline, not just the teeth in isolation.

The digital design can then be turned into a trial mock-up in tooth-coloured material placed over your teeth. You see and feel the proposed shape before any enamel is prepared. Changes to length, edge shape or colour are made at this stage, when they cost nothing to adjust.

• Smile line and lip support analysed together
• Tooth width-to-length proportions measured
• Gum line symmetry checked before cosmetic work
• Bite checked so the new shape works when you chew

From design to finished teeth in one building

The approved design is passed to Oneday Lab, our in-house dental lab on the 14th floor of the Startplex building, opened in 2022. The lab uses CAD/CAM milling, and temporary to final prosthetics can be made in one day when the case allows.

Before final cementation, the bite is checked with T-Scan Novus digital occlusion analysis, which records bite-force detail to 0.01 mm. A smile that looks right but overloads one tooth is a common reason cosmetic work chips, so the bite is part of the design.

Things to know before you decide

• A digital design is a plan, not a promise of the exact result: final shade and translucency can differ slightly from a screen image.
• Gum disease, active decay or a heavy grinding habit must be treated or managed before cosmetic work.
• Some designs are only possible with orthodontic movement or gum surgery first, which adds time.
• If your expectations differ from what your teeth and face allow, the dentist will tell you before treatment starts.