Whitening, aligners, bonding, veneers and crowns sequenced as one case rather than bought one at a time. Done properly it costs less than the sum of its parts, because nothing gets redone. Here are the ten closest practices that plan it that way.
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Typical case
$8,800 – $24,000
Units involved
6 – 12
Time to complete
2 – 9 months
Design stages before drilling
2
Designed first3D design and trial smile before any preparation
Step 1 — your location
Ten smile makeover dentists near you.
A makeover is judged on planning, not on any single treatment. We weight case volume, whether the practice publishes its own before-and-after gallery, and whether a trial smile is standard rather than an extra.
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Showing 10 cosmetic dentists near Austin, TXRanked by distance, review quality and published pricing
Gum health first, because you cannot bond to inflamed tissue. Then position — aligners move teeth so the restorations can be thin. Then shade, because everything afterwards is matched to it. Only then does anything permanent happen. Practices that reverse that order end up removing more enamel than necessary and matching new porcelain to teeth that are about to change colour.
Health before aesthetics. Untreated decay, gum disease or a failing root canal is fixed first, not covered over.
Position before resurfacing. Three to twelve months of aligners often halves the amount of enamel a veneer case needs.
Shade before porcelain. Whiten, wait a fortnight for it to settle, then match everything to the final colour.
Two approval points before anything permanent — the digital design on screen, and the trial smile in your mouth.
Two to nine months, with two chances to change your mind.
The timeline depends entirely on whether teeth need moving first. Everything before stage four is reversible.
01
Records & health check
Full photographs, scan, X-rays and a gum assessment. Anything unhealthy is treated before the cosmetic plan starts.
Visit 1 · 90 min
02
Alignment, if needed
Aligners to move teeth into position so the final restorations can be minimal. Skipped if you are already straight.
3 – 12 months
03
Whitening & shade lock
Two weeks of tray whitening, then a fortnight for the shade to stabilise before it is recorded.
4 weeks
04
Design & trial smile
Your result modelled in 3D, then transferred temporarily into your mouth. You live with it for a day and ask for changes.
2 – 3 weeks
05
Restorative phase
Bonding, veneers or crowns placed to the approved design, then a night guard made to protect it.
3 – 5 weeks
Before & after
Makeover cases from dentists on this list.
Submitted by listed practices, with the patient's written release and the fee they actually charged.
BeforeAfter
Aligners, whitening, eight veneers
Eleven months of aligners first meant the veneers needed roughly half the enamel reduction originally quoted.
Duration
15 months
Fee charged
$14,900
BeforeAfter
Whitening and six bonded edges
The entire complaint was shade plus worn edges. No veneers, no enamel removed, finished in five weeks.
Duration
5 weeks
Fee charged
$3,240
BeforeAfter
Gum recontouring, two crowns, four veneers
An uneven gum line corrected first, then restorations placed to a design he approved twice.
Duration
4 months
Fee charged
$18,600
Individual results vary with your diagnosis, anatomy and healing. Fees shown are what those specific patients paid at those specific practices and are not a quote. Photography on this page is licensed stock imagery, not photographs of the patients described.
Cost & insurance
What a smile makeover costs in 2026.
Ranges below are the 25th–75th percentile of fees published by listed practices. Any dentist we match you with has agreed to give you a written quote before treatment.
Treatment
Typical range
With 0% plan
Whitening + bondingThe lightest version
$1,400 – $4,200
$149/mo24 months
Six veneers, designed as one caseThe most common makeover
$8,800 – $16,500
$369/mo48 months
Aligners + whitening + veneersPosition corrected first
$12,000 – $24,000
$439/mo60 months
Gum recontouringPer arch, where the gum line is uneven
$600 – $2,400
Add-on
Digital design & trial smileShould be included
$300 – $900
Usually bundled
Night guardProtects the finished result
$350 – $700
Strongly advised
A makeover quoted as a single number is harder to compare than the same case quoted per stage. Ask for whitening, alignment, each restoration and the night guard on separate lines — it also lets you stage the treatment across two insurance years where any of it is claimable.
What insurance usually covers
The cosmetic portion is excluded on essentially every plan.
Restorative overlap is claimable. Crowns on cracked or root-treated teeth are restorative even inside a cosmetic case.
Gum treatment is usually covered where there is documented periodontal disease — and it has to happen first anyway.
Night guards are often covered at 50–80% where grinding is documented.
FSA and HSA funds cover this in full — it is a qualified medical expense.
In-house 0% plans at 6–24 months, offered by roughly two-thirds of listed practices.
Third-party financing at 24–72 months, typically 9.9%–17.9% APR once the promotional window ends.
Dental school clinics run 40–60% below private fees, with longer timelines and supervised residents.
Get it itemised, in writing — every time
Every component on a separate line. It is the only way two quotes ever become comparable, and every practice on this list has agreed to give you one before you pay a deposit.
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Compare your options
How far do you actually need to go?
Three tiers of makeover. Most people need less than they walk in asking for, and a good dentist will say so.
Ask to see every option planned. A dentist who only ever recommends one route, regardless of the scan, is worth a second opinion.
Whitening + bonding
Veneer case
Full reconstruction
Typical cost
$1,400 – $4,200
$8,800 – $24,000
$28,000 – $70,000
Enamel removed
Little or none
0.3 – 0.7 mm per tooth
Substantial
Reversible
Largely
No
No
Time to complete
2 – 6 weeks
2 – 9 months
9 – 18 months
Changes tooth position
No
Appearance of it
Yes, genuinely
Fixes bite problems
No
Not really
Yes — that is the point
Best when
Your complaint is shade plus a few small defects
You want to change shape and colour across the smile line
Teeth are worn or broken and the bite itself needs rebuilding
How to judge a practice
Four things that separate a good practice from an average one.
None of this is marketing gloss — each one measurably changes how predictable your result is. Ask the practices you shortlist which of the four they actually have.
Imaging
They show you the images
A practice that turns the monitor towards you and walks through what it is actually seeing is a practice that expects to be questioned.
Ask to see your own scan
Pricing
A written, itemised quote
Every fee on its own line, handed over before you pay a deposit. Every practice we list has agreed to provide one.
Non-negotiable on this list
Volume
They do this often
Skill compounds with repetition. Each listing shows how many cases of this type the practice has completed in the last two years.
Case counts shown on every card
Aftercare
Someone answers afterwards
A named contact for the week after treatment, and a written policy on what a redo costs if something is not right.
Checked at every renewal
Inside the network
What a listed practice looks like.
We visit or video-audit every practice before it goes on the list — the operatory, the sterilisation room, the imaging suite and the front desk that will handle your insurance claim.
The operatoryChair, imaging and delivery unitSecond surgerySo urgent cases aren't bumpedSterile protocolAudited at every renewalThe front deskFiles your claim, not youStreet levelParking and access checked
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FAQ
Smile makeover questions, answered straight.
Reviewed by our clinical advisory panel in January 2026. General information, not a diagnosis.
Still deciding?
Talk it through with a care coordinator before you book anything. They don't work on commission and they can tell you when this is the wrong call.
It is not a defined treatment — it is a plan that sequences whatever your case needs. That usually means some combination of gum treatment, aligners, whitening, bonding, veneers and crowns, arranged so nothing has to be redone. Because it is not standardised, a single headline price tells you almost nothing. Ask for it broken into stages.
Because porcelain and composite cannot be whitened afterwards. Restorations are matched to whatever shade your natural teeth are on the day they are made. If you whiten later, everything artificial stays the old colour and the only remedy is remaking it. Whitening costs a few hundred dollars; remaking six veneers costs five figures.
Not if your teeth are already well positioned. But if they are crowded or rotated, moving them first means the veneers can be far thinner — often half the enamel reduction — and the result looks more natural because the porcelain is not compensating for position. The trade-off is three to twelve extra months. Most people who take that route tell us afterwards it was the right call.
That depends entirely on the plan. A whitening-and-bonding makeover removes essentially nothing. A veneer case removes 0.3 to 0.7mm from the front of each tooth. A full reconstruction removes considerably more. Ask for the reduction to be described in millimetres at the planning stage, and ask what the fallback is if a veneer ever fails.
It is the proposed design transferred temporarily onto your teeth — you can see it, photograph it, show people, and sleep on it before any preparation. It is the last point at which changes are free. Any practice that does not offer one for a multi-tooth case is asking you to approve a five-figure irreversible result from a screen mock-up.
Each component has its own life: whitening one to three years before a top-up, bonding four to eight, veneers and crowns ten to twenty. A night guard extends all of them meaningfully. Budget for the whole thing being refreshed rather than replaced — most people have a top-up and a polish long before anything needs remaking.
Only if it is designed that way. The three tells are excessive whiteness, uniform length across every tooth, and gums that have been trimmed to an unnaturally even line. Look at each practice's own gallery — not manufacturer marketing — for whether the front two teeth are slightly longer than their neighbours and whether the edges have any translucency.
Yes, and it is often the smarter route. Whitening and bonding first, live with it for a year, then decide whether veneers are still worth it. The one rule is that the plan should be designed as a whole from the start, so each stage is compatible with the next rather than something you have to undo.
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