Smile Design, Redefined
Stop renting your smile design.
Design printable smile mockups yourself - in free software, with the scanner you already own. Show the patient the same visit.
DDS exports a finished case presentation. Add your logo and it goes to the patient under your practice's name.
THE MOMENT YOU ALREADY KNOW
A patient wants a better smile. You can see exactly what it should look like — but all you can do is describe it. "Imagine your teeth a little longer, more even, a little whiter."
And they hesitate.
Because they can't see it.
So it becomes "let me think about it," and walks out the door.
What you'd otherwise pay
To design one smile mockup, chairside.
The CAD platforms are built for dental laboratories. They're excellent at what they do. But you need one thing out of them — and you rent the whole building to get it.
| exocad DentalCAD | 3Shape Dental System | Digital Dental Sculptor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it costs | $1,600 – $3,864/year | Not published — quote only | $2,995 once |
| Over three years | $4,752 – $11,592 | — | $2,995 |
| Renews | Every year | Every year | Never |
| Built for | Lab technicians | Lab technicians | Dentists |
| To make a mockup | Learn a full CAD suite | Learn a full CAD suite | One panel, sliders, export |
One veneer case or several lab wax-ups pays for it. After that, it costs nothing, forever.
exocad figures are annual, derived from publicly listed monthly rates at an authorized exocad dealer, July 2026, and exclude onboarding, workstation, and training costs. 3Shape does not publish pricing; quotes are issued through partners. exocad and 3Shape are excellent lab platforms and do far more than DDS does — this compares the cost of one task, not overall capability. Confirm current pricing with the vendor.
What it is
Three add-ons, one tooth library, and a workflow that stays yours.
The Digital Dental Sculptor Suite is my three Blender add-ons, powered by my own trademarked tooth library, that let you design printable smile mockups yourself — chairside or in the lab — without expensive software and without sending every case out.
You own it once. You use it forever.
What you get
- Three Blender add-ons, set up the way I actually work
- The Pescatore Tooth Library™ — my own 3D tooth set, refined over 36 years of veneer work
- Comprehensive user guide, quick reference, and the full tutorial video library
- Branded case presentation export, under your practice's name
- Lifetime v1 updates — free, forever
How it runs
- Import the scan and the patient photo
- Load the tooth library and pick your teeth
- Move the sliders until it looks right
- Export to your printer, or send the file to your lab
See it run
One case, start to finish.
Scan in, teeth placed, sculpted, exported to the printer. No prior Blender experience — this is the whole workflow, unedited.
What changes on Monday
Three things are different the week you start.
Your lab bill drops.
Your lab charges $40 to $100 a tooth for a diagnostic wax-up. A ten-unit case runs $400 to $1,000 — every case, every time. Design it yourself and that line disappears. Three or four cases and this has paid for itself.
The patient sees it the same visit.
No more sending it out and waiting a week or more to call them back in. You show them while they're still in the chair, still interested, before everyone at home has had opinions about it.
You understand the case before you pick up the handpiece.
You already understand where the new incisal edges should be placed. You know which teeth need reduction and how much. You've found the problem that would have surprised you at the prep appointment. The wax-up stops being a sales tool and becomes your treatment plan.
You're a dentist, not a lab
Nobody regrets the invoice. They regret the second job.
The dentists I know who regret buying a mill or printer didn't regret the number on the invoice. They regretted finding out they'd bought a second job.
The machine needed someone to run it. So they hired for it, or trained an assistant off other duties, or did it themselves at seven in the evening. The equipment was the easy part. The workflow it rearranged was not.
And then there's the question nobody in the room wants to ask out loud: can you consistently produce a restoration as good as the one your lab sends back? Most of us know the honest answer.
Digital Dental Sculptor doesn't ask you to.
It isn't fabrication. It's the mockup, the case presentation, and your own treatment plan — done at your desk in under twenty minutes. No mill, no sintering oven, no staff rota, no new job title. The restoration still goes wherever it goes today.
A mockup doesn't have to last ten years in the mouth. It only has to be good enough that the patient says yes.
THE DENTIST BEHIND IT
I've spent 36 years designing smiles and full-mouth makeovers, and over 25 of those working in 3D. The software I was supposed to use was unintuitive, expensive, and still missed what makes a smile look real. So I built my own. Now I'm handing it to you.
Your patients can't say yes to a smile they can't see.
Show them — in your own hands, at your own chair, starting this week.
Not ready to buy? Run the numbers first.
Before you spend money on my software — or on a $40,000 mill — I wrote a 10-page guide on what in-office digital dentistry actually costs. Capital, consumables, staff time, the lines the reps leave off the slide.
It doesn't sell you anything. It just tells you the truth.