Digital Smile Design
Transform your smile with precision, confidence, and predictability.
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What Is Digital Smile Design (DSD)?
Digital Smile Design (DSD) is a cutting-edge way to design your ideal smile using advanced technology. We use detailed scans, photos, and videos of your teeth and face to create a smile that fits you perfectly and suits your unique features. You get to see a preview of your new smile and try on a mock-up over your teeth. This helps you see and feel what your new smile could be like before starting treatment, giving you confidence in every step.
Our Smile Design Dental Clinic
At Mona Vale Dental, we pride ourselves on being a certified DSD clinic, ensuring our patients benefit from industry-leading technology and best-practice protocols.
How Does DSD Work?
We capture photographs and videos to design a smile based on your facial proportions, teeth, gums, and lips. Your new smile is digitally designed around your individual facial proportions. You can adjust the design, take it home, and gather opinions from those who know you best. We then tailor a treatment plan that delivers the exact result you desire.
Test Drive Your Smile Makeover
Our Smile Test Drive puts you in the driver’s seat. Experience the full impact of a smile makeover without undergoing any dental work first. This complimentary consultation lets you preview your new smile and make informed decisions about your treatment. Using 3D-printing technology, we print a mock-up of your new smile, allowing you to see and feel the transformation.
What Can DSD Do for You?
DSD offers a unique opportunity to visualise and experience your new smile before undergoing any treatment. It empowers you to co-design your smile, ensuring the end result is as individual and natural as you are.
What Treatments Are Performed Using DSD?
Digital Smile Design can be applied to everything from simple cosmetic procedures to full mouth reconstructions. This includes veneers, crowns, invisalign, Implants, and tooth whitening.
Natural Restorations
Achieve a smile that harmonises with your teeth, gums, lips, and face, ensuring a natural look and feel.
Implants
Replace missing teeth with precision using DSD, ensuring a perfect fit and appearance.
Crowns
Restore damaged teeth with crowns designed using DSD for a natural and harmonious result.
Invisalign
Straighten your teeth discreetly and effectively with a treatment plan optimised using DSD.
Tooth Whitening
Brighten your smile with treatments planned using DSD, ensuring optimal results.
Veneers
Enhance your smile with veneers designed using DSD, tailored to your unique facial features.
Benefits of a Smile Test Drive
With DSD, you have full control over the process, previewing results before starting. Achieve a natural smile that suits your face without any risk of buyer’s regret. The final result is achieved using sophisticated technology guided by accurate digital data.
Smile Design in Sydney
Choose Mona Vale Dental for a life-changing smile of exceptional quality. We adhere to the 5 smile makeover standards of excellence, ensuring you feel truly confident in your decision. Read more about the 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 Dental Surgeon
Dr. Alistair Graham is an experienced and highly skilled dentist with a passion for General, Cosmetic, and Restorative Dentistry. Whether it’s smile rehabilitation, tooth wear, cosmetic enhancements, complex restorative work, or routine dental care, he is dedicated to helping patients achieve healthy, natural-looking smiles. His gentle approach and attention to detail ensure a comfortable experience for every patient.
As a Digital Smile Design (DSD) Master, Alistair has extensive experience in advanced smile transformations, using technology that allows patients to see their new smile before treatment begins. He is also highly experienced in Implant Dentistry, managing the entire implant process—from planning and surgery to the final restoration—so patients receive seamless, high-quality care in one trusted clinic. He also mentors fellow dentists and lectures in implant dentistry, staying at the forefront of modern techniques.
Originally from the UK, Alistair earned his dental degree from Bristol University before completing postgraduate training at Sydney University, obtaining a Graduate Diploma in Clinical Dentistry (Oral Implants). After several years in private practice in London, he moved to Australia in 2004, making the Northern Beaches home and founding Mona Vale Dental in 2009.
With a strong focus on quality care and patient comfort, Alistair ensures every visit is a positive experience. His goal is to help patients feel confident about their smiles in a warm, welcoming environment.
Dr Chase Gatland
Dental Surgeon
Chase delivers high-quality, patient-centred care and knows the importance of providing a comfortable, relaxed experience in anxious patient treatment. Chase believes that continuing education is vital to ensuring his patients receive the most contemporary and optimal dental care and is committed to ongoing postgraduate learning.
Kristin Barry
Dental Hygienist and Oral Health Therapist
The role of the hygienist is to run the prevention and maintenance side of the practice, and Kristin does this with great attention to detail and the highest quality of clinical care. Kristin’s dual qualifications enable her to treat all aspects of children’s dentistry and handle hygienist appointments for adult patients.
Ariel Chee
Dental Hygienist and Oral Health Therapist
Meet Ariel Chee, our experienced oral health therapist, who aims to provide gentle care to every patient. Ariel’s passion lies in paediatric dentistry, combining expertise with a passion for educating families on oral health. With Ariel, your smile is in good hands.
Lisa Clothier
Dental Practice Manager and Patient-Care Specialist
As both Mona Vale Dental’s practice manager and Digital Smile Design (DSD) concierge, she combines her organisational skills with a warm, welcoming approach, ensuring that every patient feels comfortable and cared for.
