If you want to upgrade your smile, you need a cosmetic dentist — and pretty much any cosmetic dentist will do, right?
Hardly — a truly skilled smile surgeon can be hard to find, but of course no one will advertise that they're not as experienced or knowledgeable as another. Cosmetic dentistry is only half about space-age polymers, digital imaging and manipulation, and other high-tech wizardry — it's just as much about having an eye for what looks right, and the steady hand necessary to make what you're working on look like the picture you're designing toward.
Smile designers have to understand how each of your physical traits — your height, lip and skin color, the shape of your cheeks and lips, your bone structure, and so on — interacts with your smile to create a grin rather than a grimace. Smiles don't exist in a vacuum; every aspect of your appearance plays in to how well your smile shows itself off.
The problem is that there aren't any legal statutes that determine which dentists are allowed to call themselves 'cosmetic' and which aren't. Anyone with a DDS can claim to be a cosmetic dentist. So how do you know which smile designer you want to work with? Experience.
Drs. Johnson and Risbrudt each have decades of dental experience and years of smile design under their belts, and they can show you hundreds of photos of the patients that they have designed new smiles for — that is the mark of a smile designer you want to work with.
What's the difference? Education. Drs. Johnson and Risbrudt are both devoted to keeping themselves up with their fields, and each one vastly exceeds the state-mandated minimums for continuing education every year. There's a steep learning curve with cosmetic procedures, and only continuously improving your skills — and then applying them — can make a dentist a truly great smile designer.
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