Smile Makeover Before & After
Real Austin TX Patient Results

Sarah had lived with crowded, uneven teeth since her teens. A prior orthodontist consultation at age 28 quoted her $6,200 for traditional braces — she declined and told herself she'd "deal with it." For six more years she dealt with it by hiding her smile.

At a routine cleaning at DentistsAustinTX, her hygienist mentioned Invisalign and suggested a free consultation. Sarah expected another expensive dead end. Instead, she left with a treatment plan, a 3D ClinCheck preview of her finished smile, and a $2,500 total cost that included all trays, attachments and retainers.

Treatment protocol: 28 upper aligners, 24 lower aligners, worn 22 hours/day. Check-ins every 6 weeks. Minor refinement round at month 11. Final result: crowding resolved, crossbite corrected, gap closed. Treatment complete at 13 months.

At her final appointment, Sarah cried. Her husband — who attended the appointment — cried. The dental team celebrated with her. She has since referred her sister, a colleague, and two neighbors — all of whom are now Invisalign patients at DentistsAustinTX.

Alicia had one fear above all others about veneers: the "Hollywood fake" look. She had seen other people's veneer work and found it unconvincing — too white, too uniform, too obviously artificial. She wanted a natural smile, not a dental advertisement.

Her consultation at DentistsAustinTX was different from the start. Rather than showing her a color chart and pointing at the whitest shade, the dentist spent time understanding her skin tone, eye color, and the natural translucency patterns of her existing teeth. He told her: "The goal is for no one to know these are veneers." That single sentence made her decision.

Treatment: minimal-prep porcelain veneers on 8 upper front teeth. Provisional veneers placed at appointment one for a two-week "test drive." Alicia approved the shape and feel. Final IPS e.max porcelain veneers bonded at appointment two, three weeks later.

The result was completed in June 2025. Six months later, Alicia reports that colleagues, friends and family ask if she's "always had such great teeth." Not a single person has identified them as veneers. She calls this the highest possible compliment — and so do we.

Rachel lost a front tooth in a car accident and spent two years wearing a flipper — a removable acrylic partial that sat in her mouth and caused constant low-level anxiety. Every bite of food was a calculation. Every social moment carried the quiet fear of it moving.

She was scared of implant surgery. She had read forums. She had built the procedure into something terrifying in her mind. The DentistsAustinTX consultation took 40 minutes — most of it answering her questions with illustrations, X-rays and gentle explanations. By the end, she wasn't scared. She was ready.

Treatment timeline: implant placement (Day 1) → healing period (16 weeks) → abutment placement → final IPS e.max crown. Total time: 4 months. At every stage, the team communicated proactively — not waiting for Rachel to ask questions, but reaching out ahead of each milestone.

On the day her final crown was placed, Rachel stood at the mirror for a long time. Then she said: "I can't find it." The crown color, contour, and surface texture were perfectly matched to her adjacent natural teeth. She drove home and ate an apple. First apple in two years.

Eric cracked a molar on a Monday morning and called DentistsAustinTX at 8am. He was seen at 9am. He had previously been told by another practice that a crown would take two appointments across three weeks — provisional crown first, permanent on the second visit. He expected the same.

The team explained the CEREC system: digital impression, in-house CAD/CAM milling, permanent ceramic crown — all in one visit. Eric had never heard of this. He agreed and watched the process unfold in real time. The milling machine produced his crown while he sat comfortably in the dental chair. The whole process, start to finish, took 3 hours and 30 minutes.

Bite check confirmed perfect occlusion. Color match was indistinguishable from adjacent natural teeth. No temporary. No second appointment. No follow-up needed. Eric paid, walked out at 12:30pm, and was answering emails by 1pm.

He has since referred 4 colleagues from his Downtown Austin office. Two of them have also received CEREC crowns. All three now have the same story: one visit, same day, done.

Michael had been quoted $18,000+ by two separate Austin practices for a comprehensive treatment plan. He walked away both times and lived with his dental situation for four more years — managing, avoiding, delaying. He was resigned to the idea that a transformed smile was simply not within reach.

His consultation at DentistsAustinTX took a different approach from the start. Rather than presenting one large treatment plan, the team helped him prioritize treatment by urgency, function, and then aesthetics — spreading the work across 18 months and keeping monthly payments at a manageable level through 0% APR financing.

Phase 1 (months 1—3): 4 CEREC crowns on compromised molars — functional priority. Phase 2 (months 3—14): Invisalign Lite on upper and lower arches. Phase 3 (month 15): professional in-office whitening to unify the final result. Total investment: $11,200 — significantly below all prior quotes, with no compromise in material quality or clinical outcomes.

Michael's final result, completed in October 2025, represents one of our most comprehensive smile transformations. He drove from Georgetown to South Congress for 22 appointments over 18 months. He says he would do it again in a heartbeat — and that the phased, financially transparent approach was the single reason he finally said yes.

Maya was 29 and had been told by a previous Austin cosmetic dentist that her gap, chipping and staining could only be addressed with porcelain veneers — at a cost of $8,000. On a teacher's salary in East Austin, that was simply not happening.

At her consultation at DentistsAustinTX, the approach was completely different. The dentist assessed each concern individually and proposed a conservative solution: composite bonding to close the gap and repair chips, in-office whitening first to establish the final shade, and minor recontouring for symmetry. No drilling. No anesthesia. Fully reversible. Total cost: $800.

The one-afternoon treatment changed Maya's relationship with her smile entirely. She posts photos openly now — something she refused to do before. She told us: "I spent 5 years hiding my smile because I thought I couldn't afford to fix it. I could have fixed it for $800 the whole time."