What Is Digital Smile Design?
Digital Smile Design (DSD) is a meticulous, technology-driven process that allows us to design your smile before any treatment begins. At Brisbane Smile Boutique, we use advanced digital software, facial analysis and 3D scanning to create a smile that is not only beautiful, but balanced, natural and uniquely yours.
Led by Dr Leila Haywood with Dr Diane Nguyen, our all-female team combines clinical excellence with an artistic eye, delivering smile transformations with precision, care and intention — all within our heritage-chic, 5-star inner-city clinic.
Why Digital Smile Design Matters
A smile should harmonise with:
Your facial proportions
Lip movement and smile dynamics
Tooth shape, size and symmetry
Personality and lifestyle
Digital Smile Design allows us to visualise these elements together before treatment, ensuring clarity, predictability and confidence in the final result.
The Digital Smile Design Process — Step by Step
1. Facial & Smile Analysis
We begin with a detailed consultation, capturing:
High-resolution facial photographs
Smile and lip dynamics
Intraoral 3D scans of your teeth
This allows us to design your smile in harmony with your facial features — not just your teeth.
2. Digital Smile Creation
Using specialised digital software, we design your new smile by refining:
Tooth length and width
Shape and symmetry
Smile arc and proportions
This design is tailored to your face, age and aesthetic goals, ensuring a refined and natural outcome.
3. 3D Printed Model & Mock-Up
Once your design is approved:
A 3D model of your new smile is printed
A silicone guide (stent) is fabricated
This allows us to:
Transfer the design precisely to your mouth
Create an in-mouth mock-up, so you can see and feel your new smile before committing
This step is central to our philosophy of excellence, transparency and patient confidence.
How Digital Smile Design Is Used for Different Treatments
✨ Resin Bonding & Resin Veneers
For subtle changes, such as small shape refinements or edge bonding, our dentists may hand-sculpt resin directly with artistic precision.
For more comprehensive resin veneer transformations, we use the digital smile design workflow to:
Guide tooth proportions
Ensure symmetry and balance
Achieve a highly controlled, refined result
✨ Injectable Resin Veneers
For injectable resin veneers, Digital Smile Design is essential.
The process includes:
Digital smile design
3D printed model
Precision silicone injection guide
The composite resin is injected through the guide, allowing:
Exceptional accuracy
Minimal tooth alteration
Consistent, predictable results
This technique is ideal for patients seeking a non-invasive yet transformative solution.
✨ Palatal Stents & Precision Preparation
For advanced cases, particularly where tooth length or bite relationships are being altered, we fabricate palatal stents.
These guides allow us to:
Control tooth preparation precisely
Preserve natural tooth structure
Maintain ideal bite and function
This level of precision reflects our commitment to conservative dentistry and long-term oral health.
✨ Porcelain Veneers
For porcelain veneer smile transformations, Digital Smile Design is the gold standard.
It allows us to:
Design before preparing
Prepare teeth only where necessary
Communicate precisely with the dental laboratory
Your approved design becomes the blueprint for both preparation and final porcelain fabrication, ensuring:
Exceptional aesthetics
Longevity
A seamless, natural finish
Excellence in Care, Led by Women
At Brisbane Smile Boutique, your care is led by Dr Leila Haywood and Dr Diane Nguyen, supported by a highly trained all-female clinical team known for warmth, precision and attention to detail.
Our approach blends:
Advanced digital dentistry
Artistic smile design
Gentle, patient-centred care
All delivered in a luxurious, heritage-inspired inner-city setting designed to feel calm, refined and welcoming.
A Smile Designed With Intention
Whether you’re considering:
Subtle composite bonding
Injectable resin veneers
Or a full porcelain smile transformation
Digital Smile Design ensures your smile is thoughtfully planned, beautifully executed and tailored entirely to you.
This is dentistry at its most refined — where technology, artistry and care meet.
