A diagnostic wax-up turns a smile idea into something your patient can see, try on, and approve, so the day you prep is the day everyone already agrees on the result. No surprises, no walk-backs, no irreversible guesswork.
Words and shade tabs live in your head, not theirs. Patients nod in the chair, then feel blindsided when veneers look different from the movie they imagined. The gap between what you meant and what they heard shows up after the prep, when it is too late to walk it back.
Cutting healthy enamel is the one step you cannot undo. Doing it before the final esthetics are locked means you are committing your patient's teeth to a design nobody has actually seen yet.
When the finished case does not match the expectation, the fix is not a small adjustment. It is chair time, remade units, and a patient who trusts you a little less. All of it traces back to a design that was never approved out loud.
Every wax-up starts from Digital Smile Design: proportion, midline, and smile line measured against the face, not eyeballed. The master verifies tooth-to-tooth proportion and occlusal clearance in CAD before anything is printed, so the shape you preview is the shape that holds up.
The wax-up becomes a putty or printed matrix for a chairside mock-up in bis-acryl, right over unprepped teeth. Your patient sees, speaks, and smiles with the new design in the mirror. Esthetics, phonetics, and occlusion all tested while every tooth is still whole.
The matrix that sold the case then controls prep depth and builds the provisionals. One approved design carries the whole way through, so the temporaries and the final restoration both trace back to the smile your patient already said yes to.
20 years at the bench. Laminate, Esthetic Prosthetics. Owns your case from scan review through four-light QC, and keeps your preferences on file.
Send retracted, full-smile, and profile photos, a short video, and a scan or impression of the case.
Your master runs Digital Smile Design for proportion, midline, and smile line, then designs the wax-up, hand-waxed on stone or digital and printed.
We produce a putty or silicone matrix, or a printed template, ready for chairside use.
You run a bis-acryl mock-up over the unprepped teeth to test esthetics, phonetics, and occlusion, and get the patient's sign-off.
The same matrix later guides prep depth and forms the provisionals, so the approved design carries all the way through.
“A wax-up is where I refuse to compromise. I set the midline to the face, hand-wax the form until the proportions read right, and check the occlusion before a single unit prints. When your patient sees that mock-up in the mirror and says yes, the hard part is already done. That is the whole point of doing it here first.”
Veneers & smile master, 20 years at the bench, Korea National Dental Technician License
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Retracted, full-smile, and profile photos, a short video, and a scan or impression. The video and profile matter more than people expect. They show how the smile moves and where the midline should sit against the face.
A digital wax-up ($10) is ideal when you want the design on screen for planning and communication. A printed model ($20) gives you a physical wax-up in hand. Most smile cases add a putty matrix ($20) so you can run the chairside mock-up and, later, guide the prep.
You flow bis-acryl into the matrix and seat it over unprepped teeth. In minutes your patient sees the proposed smile in the mirror, speaks with it to check phonetics, and feels the bite. It turns an abstract plan into a real preview, so the yes you get is an informed one.
Yes. The matrix doubles as a prep guide for depth control, and you can add a dedicated prep guide ($30) or a gingiva reduction guide ($100) when the case needs it. The design your patient approved is the same design that steers the prep and forms the provisionals.
One named master owns your case start to finish. Your preferences, midline handling, incisal character, contact style, are saved in CAD and reused on your next case. You reach a person by name, not a ticket number.
Send your photos, video, and a scan. Get back a wax-up and matrix your patient can approve before you prep a single tooth. One named master owns your case, remembers how you work, and answers when you call.
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