Smile Makeover
Union Square, San Francisco
Porcelain made by hand — no two smiles alike.
Every smile here is drawn to one face and one personality by Dr. Samadian, and made by him: porcelain layered, shaded and glazed by hand, with master ceramists working the case alongside him and their comments taken back into the design. Nothing is printed.
A makeover is one design, not a package. The design decides which teeth need porcelain, which need only colour, and which need nothing at all — so you buy the result, not the work you did not need.
The maker
Amin Samadian
DDS · Master of Esthetic Dentistry, NYU Rosenthal
More than a thousand smiles, designed and built by hand. He draws your case and he makes it — his hands on the porcelain, master ceramists alongside him, their comments worked back into the design as it goes. Most cosmetic practices hand that stretch of the case to a stranger.
Beneath the aesthetics is a reconstructive foundation most cosmetic practices do not have — bite, jaw joint and airway. It is why these smiles are built to be lived in, not only photographed.
- Mastership
- Esthetic Dentistry, NYU Rosenthal Institute
- Diplomate
- American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine
- Fellow
- American Academy of Craniofacial Pain
- Fellow
- International Congress of Oral Implantologists
- San Francisco
- Beverly Hills
- New York
Begin
Start with a conversation
Leave your details and the studio will arrange a private consultation with Dr. Samadian. If you would rather describe the smile you have in mind at length, there is a fuller form at the end of this page.
or call (415) 392-5025Real patients
Smiles designed by Dr. Samadian
Individual results vary
Documented cases
The work itself
Photographed at the practice. One patient per frame — where each patient started, and what was built for them.
Actual patients of Dr. Samadian. Individual results vary.
The archive
23 further cases
How it works
The design starts on your face
Lip line, profile, your smile in motion, the way you actually talk. Every decision that follows — which teeth, which treatment, what shade — falls out of one design.
Only what the design requires
Porcelain where shape must change, whitening where only colour must, bonding for the small corrections. The design decides — not a package.
Wear it before it is permanent
The design goes in your mouth as a trial smile. You live with it, photograph it, change it — before anything is made final.
Designed and made by the same hands
Dr. Samadian designs your case and makes it — porcelain worked one tooth at a time, under magnification, with master ceramists alongside him and their comments taken back into the design. No printed smiles.
Sequenced correctly
Whitening happens before porcelain is matched. Gum and bite work happens before ceramics are made. The order is most of the craft.
Our standards
What a makeover is not
It is not a fixed set of veneers, and it is not the same plan for every face. Two patients can walk in with the same complaint and leave with entirely different treatment lists — because the design, not the menu, decides.
It is also not a shortcut past health. Work that changes how teeth look sits on top of work that keeps them sound:
- 01Gum health and any decay are handled first — cosmetic work does not sit on an unstable foundation
- 02A bite that destroys its own front teeth gets managed before new porcelain is asked to survive it
- 03Where one or two changes get the result, that is the plan we present — the smaller answer is often the better one
The trial smile
You approve it while it can still change
A whole-smile change is a bigger decision than a single tooth, and it deserves a better preview than a screen mock-up. The design is made as a temporary you wear in your own mouth — at work, at dinner, in photographs.
What you approve is what gets made. What you want changed gets changed while it is still a temporary, not after the ceramics are bonded — so the shape, the size and the colour are all settled with you before any of it is permanent.
The ceramics
The hand that designs it is the hand that makes it
Most practices post the case out to a commercial laboratory, where a technician who has never met the patient works from photographs and a shade tab. A makeover — where several teeth must agree with each other and with the face — is exactly the case that suffers most from that arrangement.
Here Dr. Samadian designs your smile and makes it. Shade and translucency are matched against you, the porcelain is worked by hand, and his own hands are on the ceramics through to the finish. Master ceramists work the case with him, and what they see in it goes back into the design as the case develops.
A makeover is also not one pass. The design keeps moving — shape, size, proportion, colour, tooth against tooth — through the trial smile and through the ceramics, so the smile you approve is the smile that is bonded.
Living with it
How the result holds up
A well-sequenced makeover ages as one smile, not as a patchwork — porcelain matched to the final shade, natural teeth maintained so the match holds, a bite adjusted so nothing is overloaded.
What shortens the life of cosmetic work is almost always mechanical — grinding, nails, teeth used as tools — which is why bite protection is part of the plan where it needs to be, not an afterthought.
Talk it through
Not sure which option applies to you?
Patient films
Patients, on camera
Filmed at the practice. Individual results vary.
The ceramics
He designs it. He makes it.
No printed smiles. Porcelain worked one tooth at a time, under magnification — master ceramists alongside him, what they see in the case worked back into the design.
Begin
Start your smile design
Tell us what you want changed. You will receive our process in full — how a smile is designed and built in this studio, step by step, and what the work asks of you.
Questions
Common questions
What does a smile makeover include?
Whatever the design requires and nothing more. That can be veneers, whitening, bonding, reshaping, or alignment in some combination — decided by drawing the whole smile against your face first, then choosing the smallest set of treatments that achieves it.
Can I see the result before it is permanent?
Yes. The design is made as a trial smile you wear in your own mouth before any final ceramics exist. You live with it, show it to people whose opinions you care about, and change it while change is still easy.
Do I need veneers on every tooth?
Usually not. The smile line — the teeth that actually show when you talk and laugh — decides how far the work extends, and teeth that only need a colour change get whitening rather than porcelain. A full set is not automatically the better result.
How long does a smile makeover take?
It depends on what the design calls for. Whitening and bonding cases move quickly; cases involving ceramics take longer because the trial-smile stage is not rushed — that is the stage that gets the result right. Sequencing is discussed at the consultation with your actual case in front of us.
Who actually makes the porcelain?
Dr. Samadian does. He designs the smile and makes it, his hands on the porcelain through to the finish, working with master ceramists whose comments go back into the design as the case develops. The shade is matched against you rather than against a shade tab, and nothing is printed.
What if my teeth are not healthy enough yet?
Then that comes first. Gum health and any decay are treated before cosmetic work begins — not because it delays the result, but because it is the difference between a result that lasts and one that fails early.
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