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Two years, one full smile redesign, and a pastor who stopped holding back when he smiles.
Dilan Braddock talks for a living. Weddings, funerals, sermons most Sundays.
It started with one comment in college, about how his teeth looked. Before that, he'd never thought about them. After it, he couldn't stop.
He wasn't lacking confidence anywhere else in his life. Just there.
Dilan also carried something a lot of our patients carry quietly: a bad early experience with a dentist, from a dental injury back in fifth grade, that turned into years of not trusting the chair.
How his smile looked, and how the dentist's office felt. Both needed to change for either to actually work.
He's been voted a Top Dentist in Houston by his peers for ten straight years, and he sits on the Greater Houston Dental Society's Peer Review Board, the group dentists turn to when a case needs a second, unbiased set of eyes.
What that looks like in the chair: a biomedical engineering background from Vanderbilt, a workflow built around seeing the whole case digitally before a single tooth is touched, and a habit of explaining the plan rather than just handing it over.
What that means in a case like Dilan's: instead of treating 22 teeth as 22 separate decisions, the whole case gets planned from his face first. Function, bite, and how it actually looks when he's mid-sermon, not just in a chair.
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1. Digital planning, before anything is touched.
A full digital workup using DSD's facially-driven planning and intraoral scanning. Dilan saw a mock-up of his finished smile before treatment started, so the plan wasn't a leap of faith. It was something he could see.
2. Straighten, then restore.
Clear aligner therapy came first, about a year, to get the teeth into the right position before any permanent work. Skipping this step risks fracturing crowns down the line. The team monitored progress remotely between visits so adjustments happened early, not at the next appointment.
3. Rebuild, top first.
Ceramic crowns across the upper arch and the back lower teeth, planned and designed digitally, milled and temporized same-day using in-office scanning and printing. Total time from first scan to finished smile: under two years.
"I take better care of my teeth now. Before I felt like they were an afterthought. I just smile more. I don't have second thoughts about it anymore."
— Dilan Braddock
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