Digital Smile Design
See and feel your new smile before you decide.
What Is Digital Smile Design (DSD)?
Digital Smile Design (DSD) is an approach to planning and designing your smile using digital technology, clinical expertise and your input. We use details digital scans, photographs and videos of your teeth and face to understand your individual features and help plan a smile that suits you. As part of the process, you can preview a proposed version of your smile and, where appropriate, experience a physical mock-up over your existing teeth. This allows you to see and feel the proposed changes before deciding whether to proceed with treatment.
Our Smile Design Dental Clinic
At Mona Vale Dental, as a certified DSD clinic, we use Digital Smile Design technology and a considered approach to smile planning to help patients understand and explore what's possible for their smile.
How Does DSD Work?
We capture photographs and videos and digital scans to understand the relationship between your facial features, teeth, gums and lips. Your proposed smile is then digitally designed around your individual features and goals you’ve discussed with your dentist.
You can be involved in the design process, discuss the proposed changes and provide feedback. We then develop a treatment plan based on the agreed approach and your individual dental needs.
Test Drive Your Smile Makeover
Our Smile Test Drive gives you the opportunity to experience a proposed version of your smile before deciding whether to proceed with treatment.
If you choose to explore the process further, we can use Digital Smile Design to create a physical mock-up of the proposed smile using 3D-printing technology. The mock-up can sit over your existing teeth, allowing you to see and feel the proposed changes.
You can then discuss what you see, provide feedback and consider whether you’d like to proceed with treatment.
What Can DSD Do for You?
Digital Smile Design provides you the opportunity to visualise and experience a proposed version of your smile before treatment. It also allows you to be involved iin the design process, providing feedback as you explore the proposed changes.
What Treatments Are Performed Using DSD?
Digital Smile Design can be incorporated into the planning of a range of cosmetic and restorative dental treatments, depending on your individual needs. These may include veneers, crowns, Invisalign, dental implants, and tooth whitening.
Natural Restorations
Plan a smile that considers the relationship between your teeth, gums, lips, and facial features, with an aim of creating a balanced and natural-looking result.
Digital Smile Design can form part of the implant planning, helping us consider the appearance and position of replacement teeth as part of your overall smile.
Digital planning can help guide the design of crowns as part of restoring damaged or worn teeth, while considering the overall appearance of your smile.
Digital Smile Design can be used alongside orthodontic planning to consider how changes to tooth position may contribute to your overall smile.
Tooth whitening may form part of a broader smile improvement plan where appropriate, including consideration of the overall colour and appearance of your smile.
Veneers can be designed using Digital Smile Design to consider your individual facial features, tooth proportions and smile goals.
Interested in exploring what's possible for your smile? Start with a complimentary 30-minute Smile Consultation.
Benefits of a Smile Test Drive
A Smile Test Drive gives you the opportunity to see and experience a proposed smile before treatment.
You can:
See what’s possible – visualise how proposed changes may look on you.
Experience the proposed changes – see and feel a physical mock-up before treatment.
Be involved – discuss the proposed design and provide feedback.
Make a considered decision – understand the proposed appraoch before deciding whether you’d like to proceed.
Ready to explore what’s possible for your smile?
Start with a 30-minute Smile Consultation with Dr Graham.
Smile Design Northern Beaches
Mona Vale Dental provides Digital Smile Design and smile improvement treatments for patients of Mona Vale and across the Northern Beaches. Our approach combines digital technology, clinical planning and patient involvement to help you understand and explore what’s possible for your smile. Read more about our
5 standards of a smile makeover.
Meet the Team
We are a passionate team of skilled dentists, hygienists, and support staff. From Dr Alistair Graham's extensive experience in DSD to our dedicated Dental Practice Manager, Lisa Clothier, we are committed to providing the highest quality dental care. Meet our team in detail.
Dr Alistair Graham
Principal Dentist
Dr Alistair Graham is the principal dentist and owner of Mona Vale Dental. With more than 25 years of experience, he enjoys helping patients care for their teeth and improve their smiles in a way that feels comfortable, natural, and well planned.
Patients see Dr Graham for many reasons. Some come for a thorough check-up to make sure their teeth and gums are healthy. Others are looking for help with worn or chipped teeth, missing teeth, smile improvements, dental implants, or more complex dental concerns.
Dr Graham is known for his calm and thoughtful approach. He takes time to understand what is happening and to explain treatment options clearly so patients feel comfortable and confident in their care.
Dr Chase Gatland
Associate Dentist
Dr Chase Gatland is an associate dentist at Mona Vale Dental who enjoys helping patients look after their teeth and improve their smiles.
He provides a wide range of general dental care and has a particular interest in teeth straightening, including Invisalign clear aligners and braces, as well as cosmetic dentistry and smile improvement.
Patients often appreciate Dr Gatland’s gentle and down-to-earth style. He explains things clearly and simply, helping patients feel relaxed and know what to expect.
Some people see Dr Gatland because they want straighter teeth or a more even smile. Others come for check-ups, chipped or broken teeth, or to keep their teeth and gums healthy over time.
Kristin Barry
Dental Hygienist and Oral Health Therapist
Kristin Barry is an Dental Hygienist and Oral Health Therapist at Mona Vale Dental with a strong focus on dental hygiene, gum health and prevention.
She helps patients maintain healthy teeth and gums through regular oral health visits, gum disease care and practical advice on improving home care. Kristin is known for helping nervous patients feel calm and comfortable during their visit and for explaining things clearly so patients understand what is happening and what to expect.
Kristin also works closely with the dentists to help patients understand possible next steps in their care, including orthodontics, whitening, crowns and dental implants.
Ariel Chee
Dental Hygienist and Oral Health Therapist
Ariel Chee is an Dental Hygienist and Oral Health Therapist at Mona Vale Dental who focuses on gum health, prevention, and helping patients maintain healthy smiles.
She sees both adults and children for oral health visits and enjoys helping patients understand how to care for their teeth and gums over the long term. Ariel is known for her calm, gentle approach, particularly with patients who are nervous about having their teeth cleaned.
Ariel works closely with the dentists to support patients’ oral health before and during treatment. This may include helping patients prepare for whitening, maintain healthy gums before procedures such as dental implants, and keeping teeth clean around braces or Invisalign.
Lisa Clothier
Practice Manager & DSD Concierge
Lisa is the Practice Manager and Digital Smile Design (DSD) Concierge at Mona Vale Dental. She helps make every patient’s experience feel organised, welcoming, and well supported from the first enquiry through to the completion of treatment.
Patients often speak with Lisa when booking appointments, planning treatment, or asking questions along the way. She helps make the process clearer and more manageable by coordinating appointments, explaining next steps, and assisting with practical details, such as scheduling appointments and setting up payment plans when needed.
Working closely with the dentists, clinical team, and dental laboratories, Lisa helps keep everything running smoothly behind the scenes so patients can feel confident that their treatment journey is well planned from start to finish.
