College Student Gets Epic Smile Transformation Before Graduation!

I'm Dr. Catrise Austin, a cosmetic dentist in NYC, a.k.a "The Queen of Smiles.™" Today is a super exciting day for me because I have a young college student whose name is Taylor. And she's traveled all the way to my cosmetic dental practice in New York from Delaware, to get a smile transformation by me.

What's so important about her smile makeover today, is that she's gonna enter a new chapter. She's about to graduate from Delaware State University, and she's getting prepared for her senior pictures. And one of the things she wanted to do on her wishlist before graduation, is to get that perfect smile so that she can look like a million bucks and be confident, to move on in the next phase of her career. So today is the day!

Planning The Smile Transformation

We started working with Taylor about two weeks ago, and we designed and planned her new smile transfromation. And that is the very first thing that you wanna do when you're doing a cosmetic dental procedure. Planning is the key to success. So what we did with Taylor, we gave her professional teeth whitening first because you want to establish the tooth color before you embark on a porcelain veneers procedure. And then we made impressions or moldings, poured it up in stone, and made a replica of the patient's teeth.

We sent that replica to our cosmetic lab to design her new smile! So in this wax-up, you can now see the new shape of your teeth before the teeth transformation. And, there are no longer spaces between the patient's teeth. This wax-up shows how Taylor is gonna walk out the door when she leaves today. And I think she's gonna be super happy.

She has spaces on the top and spaces on the bottom, but today they're about to disappear. And, I know she's nervous. She actually hit me up on Instagram and she told me she's a little nervous like most patients are because when you think about cosmetic dentistry, it is a major change. And your smile is one of the first things that people will notice about you. So, I am ready to get started.

Taylor Shares Her Thoughts About Her Smile

Honestly, I love my smile, but I want it to be brighter and whiter, and longer in length. I feel like the position of my teeth is perfect. I just want it to be noticeable when I open my mouth. Overall, I'm getting it for just a boost of confidence. And, your smile is the first thing people notice. I want people to notice my smile.

So, I have a celebrity crush smile that I love, I love Karrueche's smile. The reason I love her smile is that when she opens her mouth, you can see her teeth from far away. She has pretty, large front teeth, and they're super white and they're perfect in length. So I wanted my smile to kinda resemble hers. Also, comparing our two smiles, I noticed that mine is pretty wide and so is hers. So, it was a good match for me.

Researching Porcelain Veneers

I wasn't always confident about my smile. I've actually been looking into getting it fixed for a couple of years now. My main concern was the gap...I looked into veneers, for the past three years. I was 18 when I first found out about them, and I was looking into it, and just doing my research. And after some time, and I was seeing other people and it became trending over the years and I was like, "Oh, I have to get this now. I need to do this now." So, I came across Dr. Catrise on Instagram, obviously, she did Cardi B's smile. So I was like, "I gotta go to her, obviously."