Cosmetic dentistry · Armadale, Melbourne
Porcelain veneers, bonding and alignment — designed in natural light, hand-layered in our own lab, and photographed without a single retouched pixel.
From the case files
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Case No. 041
Eight veneers, one quiet upgrade
Case No. 057
The gap she almost kept
Case No. 063
Alignment first, porcelain second
Case No. 078
A gummy smile, two millimetres
Case No. 084
The front tooth that never matched
Case No. 102
The wedding smile, honestly
Since 2016 on High Street, Armadale
2,300+ veneers from our own lab bench
480+ full smile designs
94% of patients arrive by referral
No. 01 — The house view
Ring lights flatter. Filters finish the job. And somewhere between the two, an industry taught itself to sell smiles that only exist on camera. Auvera was founded in 2016 on the opposite bet: design the smile in natural daylight, build it by hand two rooms from the chair, and photograph it exactly as it is.
It changes the dentistry more than you’d think. Daylight exposes opaque porcelain, so Sofia layers translucency into every edge. Honest photography forbids the flattering angle, so the design has to survive your real laugh, not a posed one. And publishing the price beside every case keeps our recommendations honest — you will find an $895 whitening case in our gallery beside the $18,000 porcelain one, because roughly a third of veneer consultations here end with no veneers at all.
No. 02 — The gallery
Same camera, same light, same framing, zero editing — taken at the settled review appointment, never the euphoric fit. Press and hold any photograph to look back.
AfterBefore
Case No. 041Woman, 36 · Malvern
Tetracycline staining that whitening couldn’t shift. Shade chosen one step warmer than requested — it reads whiter in daylight without going opaque.
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Case No. 057Woman, 29 · Richmond
A midline gap narrowed, not erased — closing it fully would have widened the centrals past what her lip line could carry.
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Case No. 063Man, 41 · South Yarra
Aligning first meant two veneers instead of eight. Slower, cheaper, and almost all of his own enamel kept.
AfterBefore
Case No. 072Woman, 52 · Armadale
The full-veneer quote she brought from elsewhere: $24,000. What the case actually needed: $1,800.
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Case No. 078Woman, 33 · Toorak
Two millimetres of gum recontoured under local anaesthetic changed the proportions more than the porcelain did.
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Case No. 084Man, 47 · Glen Iris
A single front implant is the hardest tooth in dentistry to fake. Sofia layered the crown against his natural neighbour under three different lights.
No published case matches that combination yet — our coordinator can show you unpublished ones at consultation.
The best compliment our work gets is that nobody suspects it.
High Street, Armadale — five o’clock light
No. 03 — The collections
Each collection page carries real from-prices, the honest limits, and the cases it produced. Drag through, or read them all.
No. 01from AU$2,150 per tooth · 3 visits · 5 weeks · trial smile included
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No. 02from AU$495 per tooth · 1 visit · no drilling · reversible
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No. 03AU$4,900 – 9,400 · 5–18 months · retainers included
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No. 04AU$895 in-chair · AU$545 take-home · 1 visit or 2 weeks · dentist-supervised
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No. 05individually quoted · staged plan · trial smile · own-lab ceramics
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No. 06from AU$450 per site · 1 visit · local anaesthetic · heals in weeks
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No. 07from AU$5,950 incl. crown · 3–6 months · specialist-planned
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No. 08crowns from AU$2,050 · 2 visits · in-house ceramics
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No. 09hygiene visit AU$248 · 6-monthly · HICAPS on the spot
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No. 04 — The Smile Designer
Choose a tooth style, length and porcelain shade and watch the design change — then send the brief to the studio. It’s how many of our best consultations begin.
No. 05 — The method
i.
Forty-five minutes of calibrated photography, digital scans and an honest conversation — including the cheaper route, if there is one. A written, itemised plan follows within three days.
ii.
Your proposed design, sculpted over your natural teeth in resin. Wear it home. Photograph it at dinner. Veto anything — while changing your mind is still free.
iii.
Sofia hand-layers the approved design in porcelain, two rooms from your chair. Fitted, checked in daylight, photographed at review — unretouched, like everything here.
No. 06 — The founders
Principal Cosmetic Dentist · Co-founder
BDSc (Hons) Melb, FRACDS · Accredited Member, AACD · AHPRA DEN0001823456
What do patients get wrong about veneers?
“That whiter is the goal. The goal is believable — shade, shape and proportion that suit your face at fifty, not just your feed at thirty.”
Why the in-house lab?
“Because the ceramist should meet the person, not a model number. Sofia sees how you laugh before she layers a single porcelain coat.”
Specialist Prosthodontist · Co-founder
BDSc Adel, DCD (Pros) Melb, MRACDS (Pros) · AHPRA DEN0001791022
What does a prosthodontist add to a cosmetic case?
“Twenty extra years of the result surviving. Aesthetics fail at the bite first, and the bite is my whole job.”
Your rule of thumb?
“If we can keep tooth structure, we keep it. Porcelain is wonderful; enamel is irreplaceable.”
Master Ceramist · In-house Laboratory
Trained Stockholm & Osaka · 20 years
Dentist · Alignment & Whitening Lead
BDS Otago, MFDS RCSEd
Oral Health Therapist
BOH Melb
Treatment Coordinator
Your first phone call & every quote
No. 07 — The arithmetic
Cosmetic dentistry hides its numbers; we publish ours. Every plan is quoted in writing against ADA item numbers before anything begins, so you can compare us line-for-line with anyone.
| Treatment | From |
|---|---|
| Porcelain veneer (per tooth) | AU$2,150 |
| Composite bonding (per tooth) | AU$495 |
| Invisalign (full course) | AU$4,900 – 9,400 |
| In-chair whitening | AU$895 |
| Take-home whitening | AU$545 |
| Gum contouring (per site) | AU$450 |
Australian law restricts patient testimonials in health advertising — and rather than look for workarounds, we think the rule points at something true: praise is easy to manufacture, photographs taken honestly are not.
Our evidence is the gallery: genuine patients, standardised unretouched photography, and the price published beside every case. Read the photography protocol.
No. 08 — The journal
Cost, longevity, repairability and the question nobody asks: which one can you undo? The comparison we draw for patients every week, written down.
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Same lens, same light, same distance, zero editing. The unglamorous photography protocol behind our gallery — and why Australian law agrees with it.
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Twelve weeks out is ideal, two weeks out is workable, two days out is a mistake. A wedding-season planning guide from the chair.
Read the article →No. 09 — Fair questions
From $2,150 per tooth — including design, the trial smile, hand-layered in-house ceramics and review. An eight-veneer smile typically lands between $17,000 and $18,500, and every quote is itemised against ADA codes.
Only if you tell them. Daylight design, edge translucency and the trial-smile veto exist precisely so the answer is no.
Most people here were. Appointments run deliberately long, you get a stop signal we honour instantly, and the first visit is only a conversation.
Statistically? Something cheaper. About a third of veneer consultations at Auvera end in whitening, bonding or alignment instead — the gallery prices several of those cases.
Begin in daylight
A 45-minute consultation with photographic records, a digital preview and a written plan — $180, redeemable against any treatment.
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