Steven Davidowitz, DDS - Cosmetic Dentist in New York City

Eva Sheie (00:03):
Whether you're visiting a dentist for the first time or considering a new one, the more you know about who's behind the chair, the better your experience will be. I'm your host Eva Sheie, and on Meet the Dentist, we feature professionals sharing their expertise so you can feel confident about who you trust with your smile.

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It's my pleasure to introduce our first dentist to the show. I have Steven Davidowitz from New York City with me. Welcome.

Dr. Davidowitz (00:33):
Thank you so much for having me.

Eva Sheie (00:35):
So tell me a little bit about yourself. Let's start there.

Dr. Davidowitz (00:38):
Well, so I go by Dr. D. Name is Steven Davidowitz. It's a little hard for my patients to say. So we go with the Dr. D and I'm a cosmetic dentist. I practice in the upper East side of Manhattan. I have a true love of smile design. I love clear aligners and the use of porcelain veneers to transform a person's confidence in their smile.

Eva Sheie (01:02):
I love the topic of clear aligners and I think everyone on earth knows what Invisalign is. There are others though, or are there not?

Dr. Davidowitz (01:12):
I love that question and it's for a very personal reason. Invisalign was amazing when I started my practice, it was in 2009. That was a true love because I grew up with a father who's a dentist as well, and he actually was lecturing for a company before Invisalign. It was called Rain Tree Essex, and they made the plastics, it was rudimentary. You would actually have to make up models with those nasty impressions, and every model was modified so that the tooth would move and then we would suck down plastics onto that. There were some pliers that we would heat up to cause pressure points, and we would have to kind of guess where that pressure point was. And I was a young teenager and my first job was working in my father's basement in his office. He did not let me near the patients, and I would use those pliers and heat it up to a certain degree and cause those pressure points, I would suck down the plastics. So I knew everything there could be about moving teeth with plastics. And Invisalign took that and brought it to such a higher level of using computer technology and algorithms to create these. And they spend a fortune on marketing over the past.

Eva Sheie (02:25):
Some really brilliant stuff too.

Dr. Davidowitz (02:28):
But there are other options now. Just like everything, there's something novel and then when it's not novel anymore and there should be other options. And the reason for that is that there should be autonomy for practitioners to use different things that are good in their hands and we should be able to choose what's best for us, whether it's a cost basis, whether it's the speed of treatment, whether it's the more predictable results, whatever it may be. So about almost 10 years ago, I decided to create my own clear aligner company, which is a crazy idea.

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And we went really far with it. It was great. And then the pandemic came and it was a little disastrous, but we're still at it. And we just released something called Mod Mouth clear aligners, which is I'm a co-founder of and creator and I still use Invisalign in my practice. That's what I could do, I'm a practitioner, I could get to pick what I want to use per patient. But the dentists that we're selling this to, it's a B2B, they love it. They love the fact that it's owned by a dentist, a cosmetic dentist. We get it, we get the grind, what we go through every day, not to put down Invisalign. Invisalign's wonderful, but it's a publicly traded company. So their bottom line is maybe different than the way we see things. The prism is through the eyes of a dentist who's managing a lot going on day to day and how could we create a system, a clear aligner system that's great for your patients, but great for you, the dentist.

Eva Sheie (03:57):
And how do you compete with Invisalign then?

Dr. Davidowitz (03:59):
So I'm not really looking to compete necessarily, meaning it's not like going up against a titan with a pebble and trying to knock down the giant. Instead it's just giving an option out there across the country to my fellow colleagues to have another option with the mindset and the treatment planning of a general dentist. So it's not just an algorithm, it's being developed by a general dentist, meaning there are certain things a general dentist does not need their patient to accomplish when they're straightened their teeth for cosmetic reasons. So if it's a back tooth that needs to be upright ever so slightly, it could take three months. The patient doesn't want that.

Eva Sheie (04:40):
Not necessary.

Dr. Davidowitz (04:41):
It's not really that much healthier for the patient. There's no cosmetic benefit. It's just longer and it's going to cost more. That's one example out of many, but it is just developing this mindset of, and there's so many general dentists that are not in the clear aligner treatments at all. They're afraid of it. They're afraid of orthodontics. It wasn't really taught to them in dental school. It seems so complicated. They just refer it. But we're talking about a hundred, $200,000 of extra revenue and probably the most simplest thing a dentist could do compared to the crowns, the fillings, the veneers, small makeovers, implants. It's so simple because it's all being done for you. You're basically handing over something to the patient.

Eva Sheie (05:26):
Also, I think they probably don't want to sell.

Dr. Davidowitz (05:28):
Right? Correct.

Eva Sheie (05:30):
Or they think that it's going to be difficult to sell. They think it's going to be difficult.

Dr. Davidowitz (05:32):
Which is also cool about Mod mouth is that with my voice and I get on webinars and videos, I could show a practice in minutes how easy it is. Basically how it works in a dental office, as you know, go in. Who do you see? You typically see a hygienist that's doing your cleanings. That's usually the person that gets that relationship with the patient.

Eva Sheie (05:54):
They try.

Dr. Davidowitz (05:54):
More so than dentist, since it's a little scary. But the hygienist, many times they're talking about their lives and they catch up, especially once you've gone there a few times, that hygienist, if they look in the mouth and they see there's a problem, there's a solution. The problem is crowding. Typically most adults. So we did a study, three out of four adult patients sitting in a dental chair and the hygiene chair has some form of crowding, which means overlapping of the teeth, which means their gums are not healthy, the things are getting trapped, they're aging quicker.

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They're told all the time, you have to floss better or you should come in more frequently. But they don't have to say that. All they say is, if you straighten that, you're not going to have this problem anymore and it'll take four months. That's it. You say that to a patient, you give them the problem, but you never gave 'em a solution. Because a solutions like floss more like I am flossing, I am brushing, I am coming in every six months, but a solution of you straighten them, you're not going to have this problem anymore is an easy sell.

Eva Sheie (06:55):
Have you ever heard the story about how they got people to start buying toothpaste?

Dr. Davidowitz (06:59):
No.

Eva Sheie (07:00):
It sounds crazy, but when toothpaste came along, they had a terrible time getting people to buy it. This had to be before 1950 or around there.

Dr. Davidowitz (07:11):
By the way, I know a lot of trivia when it comes to dentistry, but I do not know this one.

Eva Sheie (07:16):
Oh gosh, I hope I didn't invent it now. Well, we'll have to look it up and make sure that I'm, so it was, the advertising wasn't working. It may have been a specific brand that the story is about because how long, toothpaste has to have been around for quite a long time, but the way the advertising was going was failing. And so instead of talking about fresh breath or minty mouth, they switched to talking about the feeling of having dirty teeth and the sales took off. So we'll have to figure

Dr. Davidowitz (07:52):
Problem, solution.

Eva Sheie (07:52):
Yes.

Dr. Davidowitz (07:53):
It works every time. And it's something so simple that only somebody that's in the field could tell somebody else in the field, this is how you do it. Yeah. Anyways, that's Mod Mouth. Super excited about that. And again, I use it tremendously in my office, but I also use Invisalign. I use other ones as well. But it's all for a means of cosmetic dentistry to gain that confidence of a smile. Because what I've learned is that when somebody is not comfortable with their smile, it affects their entire life. And the greatest joy of my profession and going to work each day is to find those moments when I give a mirror to a patient after I did 20 veneers and they already have a transitional veneer or temporary and they're already kind of happy, but all of a sudden they break out crying. And there's a tiny moment where I'm like, she hates it. He hates it, but it's not, about a hundred percent, right? It's not. It's the fact that they're just like, I can't believe this is me. But then they come back for their follow-up two weeks later and they're joyous. They're bombastic. Their personality has changed. And there's great stories that I have. I wrote a book about it, but just these different patients and their stories of what I was able to do for them changed their life.

Eva Sheie (09:14):
Okay, you wrote a book?

Dr. Davidowitz (09:14):
I wrote a book, yeah, I wrote a book. Again, going to the pandemic, but I had a lot of free time. They shut us down. We weren't essential workers, dentists, even though if somebody has a toothache, that's pretty essential. But we were not allowed to go into the office in New York City that is, unless there was extreme swelling, bleeding or a combination of the two. Otherwise we would have to manage it over the phone. And that was for three and a half months. So I was losing my mind because I believe even a cosmetic emergency is enough to probably put my PPE on and take care of them. If I did a beautiful case and somebody chipped their front tooth and they're on Zoom because we're all working from home, that's a terrible situation. I should be there for them. But anyways, putting that aside , it is what it is.

Eva Sheie (10:02):
Our audience won't disagree with you. That's a tragic situation.

Dr. Davidowitz (10:06):
It really was. Anyways, so what I did during that time was I started educating a lot more and I started doing a lot of podcasts. I did a lot of media on news stations, local news stations across the country, and it was all about how could you take care of your teeth when you can't go to the dentist, what are things you could do at home? Loved that. And the more I was educating, the more I wanted to get more out there. So I wrote a book, it's called Power of Transformation: How Changing Your Smile Can Change Your Life, that's available on Amazon. And that was the second book I wrote. The first book I co-authored, this one I did all on my own and it was great. So it is basically about using veneers to transform your smile. But a lot of the book A is our stories.

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I started with that. I think that's great. It is so important to understand. It's not just like, oh, I want brighter teeth. It's the fact that it literally could change lives. Two was a lot of the facts and fiction about what a smile makeover is. So out of the past 17 years of doing small makeovers, I culminated the top questions and then even the ones under there, and I gave my true responses. So when people come in for a consult, I always say, grab my book. I have it in the front, not going to charge you for it because you're going to go home, you're going to have a question. It's going to be in that book, and the answer is going to be there for you.

Eva Sheie (11:29):
This is why I podcast.

Dr. Davidowitz (11:31):
That's exactly it. The information is key for comfort and understanding, and I love questions. I spend a very long time in my consults, but I know the feeling of being a patient because even practitioners or patients we're humans. And when I'm in the chair and I get home, my wife's like, well, did you ask blah, blah, blah? And I'm like, no. So I think that's what's really cool about this book in particular, is that sometimes people give you 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, an hour for a consultation. This book will probably take a couple hours to read, but it has everything in there and you could take it slowly. It also has before and after pictures and different situations. It was a great project of mine. I'm very proud, proud of that.

Eva Sheie (12:13):
Also, it has the extra benefit of making you, elevating you as a dentist, people know you as an expert

Dr. Davidowitz (12:21):
A hundred percent. And that never hurts. My practice is built mainly with word of mouth, which is great, but to have something out there that's past my circle in the Upper East side, and I've had other colleagues say, I give your book out.

Eva Sheie (12:35):
What a compliment.

Dr. Davidowitz (12:36):
Amazing compliment. I'm like, thank you. And they're like, it helps us sell the makeover because it makes it accessible, answers their questions, and I only have to spend 15 minutes with them and I give them your book. So yeah. That's great.

Eva Sheie (12:49):
Well, you've helped your colleagues then too. So your dad was a dentist, but what about your mom? What did she do?

Dr. Davidowitz (12:57):
She worked in a bank as a teller early on, and then she helped my father out in the practice. She did the front desk as a secretary. Then they realized it's not so great for their relationship for them to be that close. And then she raised us, my sister and I, and she was a stay at home mom.

Eva Sheie (13:15):
And where was that?

Dr. Davidowitz (13:16):
That was in Brooklyn, New York.

Eva Sheie (13:17):
Okay.

Dr. Davidowitz (13:17):
Yeah.

Eva Sheie (13:18):
So you're a local boy.

Dr. Davidowitz (13:19):
Yeah.

Eva Sheie (13:20):
But you live in the city now?

Dr. Davidowitz (13:21):
No, so I actually live in Long Island now.

Eva Sheie (13:23):
Okay.

Dr. Davidowitz (13:24):
Yeah. Once I got married, I have two children. I have a son who is 14. My daughter just turned 11, but the second that my wife was pregnant with my son, the oldest, she said, we're getting out of Brooklyn because she's from Maryland. And she's like, I need a lawn, I need grass. This is too busy for us. So we moved out to Long Island. It's a really beautiful place.

Eva Sheie (13:48):
What do you do when you're commuting then? How do you spend your time?

Dr. Davidowitz (13:51):
I listen to podcasts. I listen to a lot of things. I started listening to Audible, which I'm falling in love with. I can never imagine listening to a book being read to me. It was like I was averse to it, but I listened to an autobiography by Who's that actor? All right. All right. All right.

Eva Sheie (14:12):
Matthew McConaughey.

Dr. Davidowitz (14:13):
Thank you.

Eva Sheie (14:13):
I live in Austin. He's like our mascot.

Dr. Davidowitz (14:15):
Oh, he's amazing. And I never realized how amazing he was, and I would never have read his book. He doesn't really interest me, but it was at a free credit, they call it on Audible. And I downloaded it, the Pearls of Wisdom from this guy that I never really knew anything about except for his one line in that movie. So I started listening to books. I do a lot of work as well. I'm on the LAR, so it's not like the subways of the city. I have room, I put my laptop down. So I do a lot of work. And between my projects, aside from the office like Mod Mouth and managing that and reviewing cases, I could do that on the train. And I also had a TV show for the past two years, a local station here, WLNY called Your Best Self with Dr. D and Stephanie Simon. And that was a health and wellness show. Obviously I spoke a lot about oral health, but we spoke about mental health and a lot of things that I've learned in practice. So the way that came about, because that sounds nuts, but the way that TV show came about is that, again, pandemic. But it was a thought in my head that I love talking to patients and I love treating patients, and I love their responses and feeling that a complex of being able to do something so great, but they always ask me questions about their personal lives and their overall wellness, and they would just listen. And I realized I had a speaking voice, and sometimes I would actually go home and research once I was asked something. So I become more proficient in answering those questions. And I kind of loved that. And I said, I have whatever, it's 2000, 2,500 active patients at a time, now that I got this knowledge and I have the ability to comfortably feel good giving this advice outside of my field, how do I get that out even further? And the answer was a medium of tv of television, to create a show where we could have celebrities, we could have fun things, but always have it around the body and mind and overall health. And that's what the show was. It was a great project. We just wrapped up the project. It was a two year project and we did two seasons.

Eva Sheie (16:22):
You do have a nice voice.

Dr. Davidowitz (16:23):
Thank you.

Eva Sheie (16:24):
Yes. They weren't lying to you. It's true. What other podcasts do you like?

Dr. Davidowitz (16:31):
So I love everyone else in this country for some reason, murder. It seems like we're all just fascinated now with hearing murder stories and solving them.

Eva Sheie (16:41):
I couldn't, I mean, I have little, little kids, so I can't listen to anything where people get hurt right now. It just is too upsetting.

Dr. Davidowitz (16:50):
You get anxious thinking that.

Eva Sheie (16:52):
Yeah, I just avoid it. As soon as I had them, I couldn't watch the news anymore. I just turned it off.

Dr. Davidowitz (16:58):
I hear that. Yeah. I mean, we stopped playing the news for our patients in the office.

Eva Sheie (17:03):
They get really wound up.

Dr. Davidowitz (17:05):
They get wound up, and my whole goal there is to make them feel super comfortable. The whole look of the office, myself, the whole staff and my org is just to take away that anxiety. This is a fun place. We're taking care of you. And when the news was on, it was so hard to break that anxiety. So we completely stopped showcasing any news network, even local news, which we had for a while. It's depressing and the world is a little scary. So we have mostly music, but we also have Netflix. They could pick their shows and things like that.

Eva Sheie (17:41):
Is there anything else you do to make it really special in there?

Dr. Davidowitz (17:44):
We truly try. So I mean, some patients are always cold, so we have throw blankets for them. We have eye masks that we heat up to help relieve tension. I'd also hides from the eyes what we're doing. Other people would want to see, so we protect their eyes other ways, but they love that. We have hot towels for them to help clean up. Parrafin wax is a great thing because it's a distractor. So they'll be sitting there with their hands wrapped in plastic and mittens while I'm doing the exam, and it just takes away because the mind can only process one stimulus at a time. So the fact that their hands are in this sweating up and they know that it's going to feel so great, they're a lot less anxious and they're listening a lot better. And then personalization, the TV is again, Netflix, music, whatever they want. We have scented candles for aromatherapy, and then I'm just so lucky for my staff and they stuck with me during everything, as far as the pandemic, everyone's back. They're family to these patients. So it's a special place. I love coming to the office each and every day.

Eva Sheie (18:55):
So is it all cosmetic or can we come see you for a regular cleaning?

Dr. Davidowitz (19:01):
So you can. I call myself a cosmetic and general dentist instead of a general and cosmetic dentist because even with the general dentistry, I'm looking through the prism of cosmetics. So if I can make something look better, even if it's a back tooth and a wisdom tooth and I'm putting a filling, I want that to look natural. I want it to, when I'm looking at it, nobody else could see it. Even the patient, they can't get back there and actually see it in a mirror. But I want it to be as realistic as possible to mimic real life. And with that, by doing that, it helps me when I'm doing the real work, the smile makeovers, everything has to look realistic. It's got to match the person, which is, it's different than the typical, I believe, in my field. People get very into their boilerplate. You could tell like, oh, that's a doctor B veneer makeover, cuz everything's flat across. And that's just what that practitioner does. I like to talk to the patient for, like I said, an hour to get to know them if they're an aggressive, if they like to be a little edgy or if they're very timid and they're more soft and soft spoken and it changes how I'm going to think about how these teeth should look for that person.

Eva Sheie (20:17):
I know what you're talking about here, and I have a family member who got veneers probably 20 years ago and everybody went, oh no.Because she looked like a different person and not in a good way.

Dr. Davidowitz (20:32):
Because it was turning somebody into a picture of what they see as right. So I try to really spend that time and I'll actually show it to the patients. I'm thinking, because you have that little edge that maybe we should add an edge, or we should add a little pointiness to the canines and we should leave a little Embraer space between the teeth because it just gives a little bit more of that edge. And more often than not, they're like, yeah, that's me, that sounds good. And it's so appreciated keeping their personality from teeth that they didn't have like that before. There was always a problem, whether it's discoloration, chipping old cavities, bondings.

Eva Sheie (21:13):
The longer I listen to you, the more weird dental questions pop into my head and it's the craziest thing.

Dr. Davidowitz (21:20):
What do you got going on?

Eva Sheie (21:22):
I don't know if they're podcast worthy, but so my two girls are three years apart and one has canines that are sharp and one doesn't.

Dr. Davidowitz (21:31):
Yeah, that's genetics. Well, two things, one is genetics or if it actually erupted that way, it's genetics.

Eva Sheie (21:39):
It did.

Dr. Davidowitz (21:39):
Other times, some children actually are grinders, which is very interesting, but young kids will grind their teeth and they're not as sharp as they used to be, but that's completely genetic. Yeah.

Eva Sheie (21:50):
She looks like a little vampire.

Dr. Davidowitz (21:54):
So the options there obviously let it be for now, but there's minor things like reshaping of teeth that we do. It's just kind of reshaping the enamel, get rid of that sharp point and give it a little bit more roundness. There's bonding where we could add a little bit to the sides of the point and give it more of a curvature. And then later on there's always a possibility of seeing me and getting a small makeover.

Eva Sheie (22:17):
I feel like people probably don't understand that these are things you can get fixed.

Dr. Davidowitz (22:21):
Right, right. Or they are confused by how to correctly fix it without going down a rabbit hole. For instance, with the canines that are pointy, there are some that are seeking just to fix those two teeth, and they try to either flatten them or add, like I said, but now that tooth looks ginormous if it's you added to it and they're dealing with chip the bondings constantly, or when it's flattened now their bite's not right because everything has to function properly too. So I write this in my book about the right amount of teeth to correct per situation. So even though the chief complaint might be one tooth, it's not okay to just focus on that. It's got cosmetically work and functionally work, and it's different for everybody. I could do a case where it's just four teeth and their smiles transformed and everything works perfectly. And for others I'm like, I know I did that for your friend, but for you, you actually need 10. And I explain why. And a cosmetic dentist, that's the way they see things. They're not going to just try to do a case because it's the case. They're going to say, no, I'm not doing that, because for you, that doesn't work.

Eva Sheie (23:36):
It's kind of bringing me all the way back around to Invisalign. And I think what you were saying, just to kind of close that whole thing out, it was Invisalign is an algorithm and you put what pictures of teeth or scans in and it comes back and says, this is the way and the only way.

Dr. Davidowitz (23:56):
They do, but a dentist could still modify it, and it's mostly orthodontists that would, those that specialize in straightening teeth. They have a lot more background with it and confidence to challenge a treatment plan that came back from a line or from Invisalign. The general dentist is either timid to, especially those that don't really do it to ask for a change, they don't really know or they may not do many more cases. They just didn't feel comfortable. And that's really the Mod Mouth difference is yet we also give them a case and say, this is the way it should be done, but the algorithm that I created or helped create is meant for the general dentist patient and for the general dentist, so it's right for them.

Eva Sheie (24:39):
That sounds really smart.

Dr. Davidowitz (24:41):
Thank you.

Eva Sheie (24:43):
If we want to learn more about Mod Mouth, where should we go?

Dr. Davidowitz (24:46):
It's mod mouth.com. That's M-O-D-M-O-U-T-H.com.

Eva Sheie (24:52):
The other wild dental thing that popped into my head was, and it's really weird, my 5-year-old has what I call a shark tooth, and it's like this evergreen tree shaped baby tooth, extra baby tooth that came in behind her big tooth. And I thought at first that it was her big tooth coming in the wrong spot, and I brought her in and they said, no, it's just extra.

Dr. Davidowitz (25:16):
Was supernumerary baby tooth.

Eva Sheie (25:18):
Yeah.

Dr. Davidowitz (25:18):
That's not super common.

Eva Sheie (25:20):
It's not?

Dr. Davidowitz (25:21):
No, but it doesn't mean anything bad.

Eva Sheie (25:23):
She thinks it means she's extra special.

Dr. Davidowitz (25:25):
Yeah, of course it does.

Eva Sheie (25:26):
Yeah.

Dr. Davidowitz (25:28):
She has more pearls of wisdom. So I remember myself, I had shark teeth, but that was permanent teeth coming in behind the other ones, and I was like, it's better to chew with.

Eva Sheie (25:41):
I want to kind of wrap it up with maybe I feel like people my age may be your age and slightly older, including myself, that we didn't really do as good of a job on our teeth when we were kids. Dentists just in general, they did a lot less intervention when we were younger. And so you can kind of look around at people my age and say, oh, your parents probably decided they couldn't afford braces because it wasn't that bad. But today I feel like they almost all get braces. They don't let anything slide anymore, and the standard has really come up, and some of that's cosmetic, but I also wonder if there are other benefits that maybe we don't think about.

Dr. Davidowitz (26:30):
That's a great question, and I am super proud of how far we've come with prevention. I remember those days where you only got the braces if it was a big problem, and then maybe later teens we get it because the child was self-conscious and they begged to get their teeth straightened to help correct a cosmetic issue. Today what we're realizing is that by not correcting malocclusion early on, A, we can end up with dental problems just like adults, even more so for children. If their teeth are too crowded and not in the right position, they're going to end up with more problems as far as cavities and gum issues and things like that. Even more so is temporal mandibular jaw disorder or TMJ disorder and sleep apnea. Both of those could be easily solved at a young age by expanding the palette and expanding the arch of the teeth. Why is that? The more space or airway space we have, the less likely we're going to have sleep apnea problems. And the wider the arch and the straighter the teeth, the more support the jaw has. So it really is a great, great time of seeing, and I can't wait for 30 years from now to see the not repercussions, but the benefits of this early intervention. But that's the thought process behind it

Eva Sheie (28:00):
That is super important because it isn't just about looking better, obviously looking better has its own benefits.

Dr. Davidowitz (28:07):
And you will look better. So if somebody's palette is a high palatal vault, their face is going to be a caving in because it's like a tepee shape, and that affects the growth of their bone and how they're going to look. So it's not just a dental issue, it's a whole facial issue that could have been solved with something like a palate expander. People think about palate expanders, and that's one of the early interventions of what you're referring to as just a way of straightening the teeth, but it's so much more. It's opening that air way, it's expanding the maxilla, the upper jawbone, allowing the lower jaw to sit right. A lot of early intervention that I think is going to be amazing for that generation.

Eva Sheie (28:46):
Would your face also look different and better?

Dr. Davidowitz (28:50):
Better. Yes.

Eva Sheie (28:52):
Yep. It's all connected.

Dr. Davidowitz (28:54):
It is. Yeah. And that's why I think of cosmetic dentistry. I used to call it facial aesthetics. I don't do too much facial aesthetics. I'm trained in fillers and fun stuff, but the teeth and the smile have to fit into the body and it's got to fit into the frame. And the frames of the teeth are going to be the lips and the jaw structures and the cheekbones, the forehead, the inter pupillary lines, the ears, everything. And you got to tie everything together. So when we're dealing with early intervention, just putting that together, cosmetic dentistry doesn't really make sense, but it does because helping them cosmetically, but you're also not just focusing on the teeth. Teeth as a cosmetic dentist, teeth are not very pretty. I've had the experience of holding teeth in my hand during dental school.

Eva Sheie (29:40):
And as a mom. I've had that experience as a mom.

Dr. Davidowitz (29:43):
You look at it, it's not that pretty. Who think this is?

Eva Sheie (29:47):
Why do we save these?

Dr. Davidowitz (29:52):
Sentimental, but smiles are gorgeous, but even smiles aren't gorgeous. Our faces, it's the first thing people look at, right? We don't typically look down at somebody.

Eva Sheie (30:03):
No, nobody ever says what beautiful teeth you have..

Dr. Davidowitz (30:05):
Right? That would be odd, but they might say smile, or they just say, you look great. That's the biggest compliment. Everything works together in harmony.

Eva Sheie (30:15):
Very well said. We know where to find Mod Mouth. What if we want to come see you as a patient? Where do we go for that?

Dr. Davidowitz (30:22):
So you could find us on our website, which is luxurydentistrynyc.com. You can also find us on Instagram @LuxuryDentistrynyc. And there are a bunch of links there. You could go to our RealSelf page. You could also go to our website. You could book an appointment. Many places you could go to learn more about us.

Eva Sheie (30:44):
Thank you for sharing your stories today. It's been very enlightening, and I am very, very glad that you came to see us today.

Dr. Davidowitz (30:53):
Thank you so much again for having me, and this was a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to doing this again sometime soon.

Eva Sheie (30:59):
I hope so. There's no substitute for meeting in person, but we hope this comes close. If you're considering this dentist, be sure to let them know you heard them on the Meet the Dentist podcast. Check the show notes for links to this dentist's website and Instagram. To be featured on Meet the Dentist, book your free recording session at MeettheDentistPodcast.com. Meet the Dentist is made with love in Austin, Texas and is a production of The Axis, theaxis.io.