Istanbul Smile Design (Hollywood Smile) — Deltadiş Oral and Dental Health Polyclinic

Smile design is often advertised as though it were one procedure you can book. It is closer to a planning stage. What smile design decides is which teeth need to change, in what way, and by which method: laminate veneers, zirconia crowns, whitening, composite bonding, gum contouring, or a combination of them. The treatments themselves come afterwards. The design is the part that has to be thought through first, and it is what determines whether the result suits you.

Those decisions are driven by your face, not by a catalogue. Where your upper lip sits at rest and while you speak, how much gum shows when you smile, your facial midline, the width-to-length relationship of your front teeth, the way your lower lip follows the smile line — this is what sets the frame for what will look right.

It is also why a particular celebrity's smile cannot simply be transferred onto another face: those proportions belong to that person's lips and bone structure. Two patients arriving with the same photograph will leave with two different plans.

A plan agreed before anyone has looked inside your mouth is not a plan. The first appointment is an examination with digital panoramic imaging, so that gum condition, decay, old restorations and the way your teeth meet can be assessed. If gum treatment or a root canal is needed, it comes first — aesthetic work placed over an unresolved problem rarely lasts.

Photographs, scans and the design follow. The stage that matters most is the mock-up: a temporary preview placed over your own teeth. You can look at it, speak with it, ask for the length or the shade to be changed, or decide against the whole idea. Nothing is irreversible at that point. Many patients then spend time in temporaries before the final restorations are bonded.

How many sessions and how many days this takes depends on the number of teeth and on what has to be treated first. Your dentist gives that number after the examination and the X-ray, not before. The first examination is free — you can arrange it on WhatsApp: +90 546 124 48 29.

Smile design touches several disciplines at once. The gum line is periodontology, veneers and crowns are prosthetics, shade matching may involve whitening, and a bite problem is a field of its own. When these sit in different buildings, the plan gets passed around and diluted. At Özel Deltadiş Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Polikliniği in Kağıthane, 7 dentists with 15+ years of experience work across 5 separate clinical areas with 16 treatments under one roof, so the plan stays with one team.

The polyclinic has treated more than 10,000 patients, including patients from 37 countries, and holds the Ministry of Health International Health Tourism Authorisation Certificate ST-6365. The certificate guarantees no result — no certificate can. It documents that the clinic is audited against defined standards for treating patients from abroad.

Language counts for more here than in most treatments: describing the smile you want is hard in a foreign language. Interpreter support in English, Russian and German exists for exactly that conversation. Google rating: 4.6.

The first examination is free and includes digital panoramic imaging. You leave with a written treatment plan and a transparent price for your own case. No price is published in advance, because it is not a single number: it depends on how many teeth are treated, which materials are chosen, and whether anything has to be treated first. Anyone quoting a smile design figure without having seen your X-ray is guessing.

Özel Deltadiş Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Polikliniği: Ortabayır Mahallesi, Talatpaşa Caddesi, BLN Levent No: 80/A, Kağıthane, Istanbul. The M2 station 4. Levent is about 816 m away, a 13-15 minute walk. Open Monday to Saturday, 10:00-20:00; closed on Sunday.

For patients travelling from abroad, WhatsApp is the fastest route: +90 546 124 48 29. Landline +90 212 890 40 40, or info@deltadis.com.tr. You are welcome to send photographs of your smile beforehand for preliminary guidance, but treat any answer given that way as provisional until the examination.