Dr. Armen Akopian

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Dr. Armen Akopian All aspects of dentistry from complicated smile makeovers to general dentistry with a gentle touch.

One of the biggest concerns patients have about getting porcelain veneers is: “What am I going to look like and what abo...
10/14/2026

One of the biggest concerns patients have about getting porcelain veneers is: “What am I going to look like and what about the temporaries?”

The temporary phase shouldn’t feel like something you just have to get through.

Something that sets us apart is the time and attention we put into designing your temporary veneers to complement your face, your smile, and your overall features. They’re also an important opportunity to see and experience the direction we’re taking before your final porcelain is made.

Proportions. Length. Shape. Shade. How everything works with your face in motion. By the time we move into the final ceramics, there shouldn’t be anything left to chance or guesswork.

In the meantime, you should still be able to go out, smile, take photos, and live your life confidently.

And this is a perfect example of what that phase can look like. Enjoying life, smiling confidently, and looking completely natural, all while still in temporary veneers.

This one is special.Two implants placed next to each other in the front of the smile created a difficult esthetic challe...
10/06/2026

This one is special.

Two implants placed next to each other in the front of the smile created a difficult esthetic challenge. We needed to manage the proportions and contours of the implant teeth while making everything blend naturally across the smile.

When implants are already in place, their position dictates much of what comes next. The challenge is designing around those limitations while creating something that looks completely natural. Every decision in shape, proportion, contour, and ceramic becomes that much more important.

A lot of planning, a lot of communication, and an incredible collaboration with one of my master ceramists and friend Aram Torosian to bring this one together.

For the dentists: What do you think we changed to get from the before to the after? What would your approach have been?

I’ll probably share more of the treatment sequence in a follow-up.

There’s a lot that happens before the final ceramics ever make it to the patient’s mouth.What patients see is the final ...
10/01/2026

There’s a lot that happens before the final ceramics ever make it to the patient’s mouth.

What patients see is the final result. What they don’t see are the countless hours a master ceramist spends behind the scenes perfecting every detail by hand. It’s a level of craftsmanship that’s difficult to appreciate until you see what actually goes into creating each tooth. And most patients never see this part of the process. While they’re living their lives in their temporary veneers, this is the artistry that’s happening behind the scenes.

The goal isn’t simply to make beautiful teeth. It’s to create something that feels like it could have always been there. Nature as the inspiration. Art as the interpretation.

Ceramics: Ricardo Malise

Men think about their smiles too. We just don’t talk about it as much.A lot of my male patients want the same thing- the...
09/23/2026

Men think about their smiles too. We just don’t talk about it as much.

A lot of my male patients want the same thing- they want to improve their smile but they don’t want it to look like they had their teeth done.

For this case, the goal wasn’t perfection or a dramatic transformation. It was to improve the proportions, symmetry and overall balance of the smile while keeping it masculine and natural.

The best compliment for work like this isn’t “Who did your teeth?” It’s “You look great.”

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Subtle. Natural. Masculine. Still him.
09/20/2026

Subtle. Natural. Masculine. Still him.

Complex cases don’t always have a quick fix, but they do have a path forward.Read this carefully if you know you need de...
09/16/2026

Complex cases don’t always have a quick fix, but they do have a path forward.

Read this carefully if you know you need dental work but feel overwhelmed by where to even begin.

This is phase one of a complex implant and veneer journey. The patient came to us with failing implants in the front of his smile. The situation had become so complicated that he spent years in decision paralysis, worried about what it would take to address it.

Rather than asking him to wait a year or more before he could feel good about his smile again, we came up with a creative way to get him there in stages- addressing the immediate problem while giving us the time to rebuild things properly.

Working together with our surgeon, we removed the failing implants and stabilized his smile with a long-term temporary bridge, along with what I’ll call “long-term temporary veneers” on the adjacent teeth.

This gave him a confident new smile now, while allowing us the time we need to rebuild what was lost around his implants before moving on to the final restorations.

While this isn’t the final result, it’s an important step toward it and even in the temporary stages, the goal stays the same: natural, balanced, and still you.

You don’t have to see the entire path to take the first step. Sometimes you just need a plan that makes that first step feel possible.

From good to great.She already had a beautiful smile, but wanted it to feel brighter and still completely like her. Trad...
09/10/2026

From good to great.

She already had a beautiful smile, but wanted it to feel brighter and still completely like her. Traditional whitening had never given her the result she was looking for, and a crown on one of her front teeth never felt like it truly belonged.

With 9 minimally invasive veneers and a replacement crown, we were able to give her the brighter smile she wanted while still preserving the depth, texture, and character that make natural teeth beautiful. Bright but not artificial. Elevated but still her. A great example of how getting veneers doesn’t have to mean creating an entirely different smile. Sometimes it’s simply about elevating what was already there.

In aesthetic dentistry, we spend so much time trying to recreate nature. The translucency of enamel. The way light moves...
09/04/2026

In aesthetic dentistry, we spend so much time trying to recreate nature. The translucency of enamel. The way light moves through a tooth. The subtle imperfections, textures, shapes, and proportions that make something feel real. We study nature. We interpret it. And then we try to create something that feels as though it was always there.

A case where we converted composite veneers to porcelain veneers. She originally had composite veneers done on 20 teeth ...
09/01/2026

A case where we converted composite veneers to porcelain veneers.

She originally had composite veneers done on 20 teeth elsewhwere and wasn’t happy with the esthetics.

Composite can be a great option in the right situation, and I use it myself. But for full smile makeovers, I prefer porcelain. Composite tends to stain and lose its polish more quickly, requires more maintenance over time, and it’s difficult to replicate the same depth, translucency, and natural appearance that we can achieve with porcelain.

A couple of years ago, she had her upper 6 front teeth redone beautifully with porcelain veneers by one of my favorite people and an incredible cosmetic dentist, Dr. Tomasulo.

When she was ready to complete the rest of her smile I added porcelain veneers to the two premolars on each side on her upper and converted the lower teeth to porcelain as well. The final change may be subtle to some, but it makes a big difference in overall harmony. The smile now feels more balanced and follows the natural curvature of the lower lip.

Our goal in aesthetic dentistry is to create vibrant yet natural smiles where the white of the porcelain harmonizes seam...
07/31/2026

Our goal in aesthetic dentistry is to create vibrant yet natural smiles where the white of the porcelain harmonizes seamlessly with the healthy pink architecture of the gums. True beauty and health lies in maintaining that balance.

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