Image caption: Can you ID the celebrity by their teeth? Answers at the finish of the report.

Ripa: Gary Gershoff/Wireimage. Rock: Desiree Navarro/Wireimage. Harper: Marc Piasecki/Wireimage. Margulies: Amy Sussman/Wiremage. Theroux: Shannon Finney/Getty Photos. Cher: Dominik Bindl/Getty Photos. Affleck: Stephane Cardinale/Corbis by means of Getty Photos. Pink: Jean-Baptiste Lacroix/AFP by means of getty pictures. Sparkle: Adobe Stock.

A important director had scheduled a rapid lunch just ahead of leaving for an out-of-town shoot, but when he bit down on anything tough and cracked a back tooth, his plans had been abruptly in limbo. He raced to the Brentwood workplace of Dr. Jon Marashi, explaining the urgency.

The aesthetic dentist skipped the usual goopy impressions and as an alternative captured information of the director’s bite with a 3D scanner in significantly less than a minute. The digital file was quickly input into a 3D printer, which made a replica of the broken tooth. Working with a Laptop Aided Design and style (CAD) and Laptop Aided Manufacturing (CAM) dental milling machine, a new porcelain crown was rapidly fabricated, verified on the printed model, and inside hours bonded onto the patient’s broken tooth.

“The sector common turnaround for a crown has usually been two weeks, but this complete course of action was 3 and a half hours,” notes Marashi, whose patient roster contains Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Goldie Hawn, Cher, Pink, producer Jennifer Todd and Ben Harper.

“I had a prior version of the scanner and it was the greatest waste of funds simply because the resolution was terrible, slow and not precise, like a dial-up modem — but this a single, referred to as the Treos, is super kick-ass and like higher-speed web,” Marashi adds. “It requires 45 seconds to get the image of an complete mouth.”

In current years, higher-tech advances like lasers, digital scanners and printers, artificial intelligence and augmented reality have produced even the most involved dental intervention a significantly faster, a lot easier and additional predictable expertise.

Individuals now have additional manage more than a smile’s outcome. “There is a new mix of augmented reality and artificial intelligence that performs by capturing a scan of the person’s face and permitting us to morph a filter onto it,” explains Dr. Alex Fine, who performs in the workplace of Dr. Marc Lowenberg, exactly where Chris Rock, Julianna Margulies, Kelly Ripa and Liev Schreiber are sufferers. “It’s as if you are producing an Instagram filter uniquely made for sufferers that shows what they would appear like with their most effective smiles.” The patient then requires portion in the course of action, assisting make a decision what is optimal.

“It performs properly simply because there are distinct traits that appear lovely on distinct people today,” explains Dr. Robert Raimondi, of A single Manhattan Dental. “We can superimpose [the scan] on images of a face and alter size, shape, shade, quantity of teeth, and show them what is in fact probable in their mouth.” Raimondi also integrates the internal scanner with a CT Scan and robotic surgery to improve the precision of implant placement. “It’s so cool,” he says.

Dr. Shawn Flynn has sufferers weigh in on their smiles with out an further go to to his Beverly Hills workplace. “I just completed a case for an individual on a Television show, and we had his scan on file, so we had been in a position to go back and forth with the pictures with out him getting to come in once more,” he notes.

Gummy smiles applied to need surgical tools and a drill, but the handheld LiteTouch laser, created in Israel, is now in a position to take away gum tissue and bone, raising the upper teeth with out regular surgery. “It’s significantly less invasive, significantly less painful and heals additional rapidly,” reports Fine.

The LiteTouch also removes old veneers by melting the adhesive, so dentists no longer have to painstakingly grind them off and potentially harm underlying teeth. “I had a lady who had terrible veneers,” recalls Marashi. “The function was garbage and her bite was messed up. I had all her veneers off in 15 minutes with out destroying any all-natural tooth. This tech is about as spanking new as it gets!”

Even whitening is significantly less of an ordeal. “The new lasers no longer heat the teeth the way they did, and the gel is not so harsh, so it is significantly gentler for people today with sensitive teeth,” points out Dr. Lana Rozenberg, who tends to the smiles of Justin Theroux and Kristin Davis.

The new technologies are specifically helpful for productions. Rozenberg tells of a heartthrob British actor who cracked his tooth though on set. “He bit into anything, and he wasn’t laughing, but we had been in a position to use the scanner and get him out of the workplace and back to function with a new tooth in an hour and a half,” she says. “It’s astounding that we do not even will need to take impressions, which is best for gaggers. You can even make evening guards on the printer.”

Actresses are by no means as well young to head to an aesthetic dentist. When Madison Taylor Baez, 11 at the time, lost a infant tooth on the set of Showtime’s Let the Correct A single In, she was rushed to Lowenberg, who rapidly scanned her mouth and printed her a short-term tooth to get her by means of the shoot.

Lately, a new AI system was provided to dentists that in fact reads and interprets X-rays. “It’s thoughts-boggling,” says Rozenberg with a laugh. “Soon dentists will be obsolete.”

Even though scanning and printing of molds and trial smiles can be completed digitally, and some dentists are utilizing 3D printers to in fact produce veneers for front as properly as back teeth, Lowenberg explains: “Although these advancements are terrific and really new, the final step of a accurate Hollywood smile wants subtlety and artistry, which is nonetheless only accomplished by the hand of a master ceramist.”

Top rated row, from left: Kelly Ripa, Justin Theroux, Cher, Chris Rock.

Bottom row, from left: Ben Harper, Julianna Margulies, Ben Affleck, Pink

A version of this story initial appeared in the April 12 challenge of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click right here to subscribe.