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Why Do Dental Problems Keep Coming Back?
Many people repeatedly experience broken teeth, tooth wear, gum recession, failing restorations, jaw pain, and bite instability.
Simply repairing damage may not address the underlying causes. Our approach is to understand the whole picture before rebuilding and restoring health.
Your Pathway to Long-Term Health
We provide tailored care based on your specific needs and stage of life.
Healthy Smiles
For patients seeking preventive and family dentistry. Maintaining your oral health for the long term.
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Restoring Smiles
For patients experiencing wear, damage or failing dental work. Understanding causes and providing lasting solutions.
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Rebuilding Smiles
For patients requiring complex rehabilitation and advanced treatment to restore full function and aesthetics.
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The Science, Art and Communication Behind Truly Bespoke Smile Design
Beautiful smiles are never created simply by selecting a tooth shade.
After more than twenty years of experience in cosmetic dentistry and prosthodontics, Dr. Komal Suri recognised that patients, dentists and dental laboratories often described the same smile in completely different ways.
To solve this challenge, she developed Creating Smiles™: a comprehensive smile design communication system that allows every important aesthetic characteristic of a smile to be selected, discussed and communicated visually before treatment begins.
Instead of relying on interpretation, Creating Smiles™ provides a shared visual language between the patient, clinician and master ceramist, helping achieve predictable, highly personalised and naturally beautiful restorations.
Watch Dr. Komal Suri Explain the Creating Smiles™ Philosophy
Key Learning Points
- Smile design is a collaborative communication process between patient, clinician, and master ceramist.
- Selecting a shade is only the beginning; value, translucency, texture, and lustre are equally important.
- Creating Smiles™ provides a shared visual language to eliminate guesswork.
- Every natural smile has a unique "fingerprint" of optical characteristics.
Explore the Characteristics
Shade
Beautiful smiles are never created simply by selecting a tooth shade. These examples show complete smiles with shades such as A3, A2, A1, B1, OM2, and OM3, displaying accompanying characteristics like texture, translucency, and lustre.
Value (Brightness)
Value refers to the brightness or darkness of a colour. These comparisons demonstrate high value versus low value while keeping other characteristics similar.
Translucency
Translucency determines how much light passes through the tooth. These examples illustrate maximum, moderate, and minimum translucency.
Surface Texture
Surface texture affects how light reflects off the tooth. These images demonstrate smooth, medium, and heavy texture variations.
Surface Lustre
Lustre refers to the surface polish and gloss of the tooth. Grouped by surface polish, these images illustrate low, medium, and high lustre.
Halo Characteristics
Halo effects occur at the incisal edge of the tooth. These images identify natural, white, amber, and combined white & amber halos.
Edge Anatomy
Edge anatomy defines the shape and character of the biting edge. These examples demonstrate minimal, moderate, and more pronounced edge anatomy.
Incisal Edge Colour Characteristics
This comparison shows variations in incisal edge colour, including no incisal edge colour, white edge characteristic, white & amber edge characteristic, and amber edge characteristic.
Every Smile Has Its Own Fingerprint
Every natural smile is unique. Every tooth reflects light differently.
Every smile possesses its own combination of:
- shade
- value
- translucency
- texture
- lustre
- halo effects
- edge anatomy
- incisal edge colour
Creating Smiles™ enables every one of these characteristics to be selected and communicated visually before treatment begins.
This allows the patient, clinician and master ceramist to work towards exactly the same aesthetic vision.
What Makes Creating Smiles™ Different
Most cosmetic dentistry begins with one question:
"What shade would you like?"
Creating Smiles™ asks a much more important question:
"What kind of smile would best suit you?"
Rather than focusing on colour alone, Creating Smiles™ considers every optical and anatomical characteristic that contributes to a natural smile.
This transforms smile design into a collaborative, highly personalised process.
Experience Bespoke Smile Design
Every smile begins with understanding the individual, not simply selecting a shade. Book a Smile Design Consultation with Dr. Komal Suri and discover how the Creating Smiles™ methodology allows every aesthetic detail to be planned before treatment begins.
“The teeth are often the symptom. Never the whole story.”
More Than a Dental Practice
ASURA is a specialist referral centre focused on comprehensive interdisciplinary care.
We specialise in Longevity Dentistry, Full Mouth Rehabilitation, Airway & Sleep Medicine, TMJ, Occlusion, and Digital Diagnostics. We don't just fix what's broken; we investigate why it broke and create a strategy to preserve your natural teeth for life.
Prevention & Diagnosis
We believe exceptional outcomes begin with exceptional diagnosis. We utilise advanced technology to identify risks before they become complex problems.
Function & Rehabilitation
Whether restoring a single tooth or reconstructing an entire bite, our focus is on establishing long-term functional stability and maintaining your quality of life.
Long-term maintenance is the key to preserving your smile for life.
The Kois Advantage
Three Kois-trained clinicians. One evidence-based philosophy.
Confirmed by Dr John Kois in Seattle, Asura Longevity Dentistry brings together a globally unique concentration of Kois expertise: three Kois-trained clinicians under one roof, supported by Kois Mentor and advisor Dr Christian Leonhardt.
Rather than focusing on individual procedures, every treatment recommendation is guided by structured diagnosis, scientific evidence and long-term patient health.
Evidence-Based Dentistry
Collaborative Care
Comprehensive Risk Assessment
Long-Term Health
Our Philosophy
Dr Millie explains the core philosophy that connects early prevention with adult longevity.
The Smoke. The Fire. The Missing Link.
Two connected worlds. One philosophy. Different life stages.
ASURA Longevity Dentistry
The Fire
Adults often present with the consequences:
- worn teeth & headaches
- TMJ dysfunction
- airway issues
- bite collapse
Our role is to restore function, rebuild stability and improve healthspan.
The Lifelong Dental Health Journey
We don't just treat teeth. We guide our patients through a lifelong journey of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and education.
Our Focus Areas
We structure our care around diagnosing and resolving complex underlying problems, not just delivering isolated treatments.
Why ASURA is Different
Most dentistry focuses on fixing a tooth. We focus on understanding the system.
We combine Occlusion, Orthodontics, Functional dentistry, Longevity thinking, Whole-face balance, and Preventive medicine philosophy.
Because long-term health depends on long-term stability.
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Trusted expertise
Very quickly into her career Dr Komal Suri understood what it was to be a trusted clinician for her patients. She has dedicated herself to the pursuit of knowledge in comprehensive rehabilitation, longevity dentistry, restorative dentistry, occlusion, smile design, digital dentistry, full-mouth rehabilitation, and interdisciplinary treatment planning. She only works with associates who are equally passionate about their field and providing the best for her patients.
Dr Suri has lectured both nationally and internationally and remains active both in her postgraduate learning and teaching.
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