Dr. Tansu Üzel

Dr. Tansu Uzel is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon who designs smiles in proportions, millimetres and bone. She graduated in dentistry from Yeditepe University and trained as a specialist in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at Istanbul Medipol University, with further masterclasses in facial asymmetry, orthognathic planning and clinical dental photography. Since 2019 she has run her own aesthetic and dental clinic in Galata, Istanbul. She treats patients in Turkish and English.

Professional & Academic Snapshot

Why we recommend her personally

We meet a lot of dentists in Istanbul who offer smile makeovers. We asked Dr. Uzel to join One Life Dental because her work does not look like a “Turkey smile”:

• She is a surgeon with an artist’s eye. Most smile designers are general or cosmetic dentists. Dr. Uzel is a specialist oral and maxillofacial surgeon, trained to plan the face, jaws and bite as one structure. That is why her smiles sit naturally in the face.
• She designs for one face at a time. Tooth length, width, shape and shade are planned around your facial proportions, lip line, gum line and how much tooth shows when you speak and laugh. No two of her designs are the same template.
• She is precise to the millimetre. Her surgical training in orthognathic planning means digital measurement and simulation before any treatment. She brings the same discipline to veneers: digital analysis, then a trial smile in your mouth before a tooth is touched.
• She has trained her eye deliberately. Beyond her specialist degree, she completed masterclasses in facial asymmetry (S.O.R.G. Academy and the AÇBİD 2019 congress), the Face, Airway and Bite concept of orthognathic planning, and clinical dental photography.
• She can take on the complex cases too. She is trained to perform zygomatic implants and full-mouth implant reconstructions, so patients who need implants and a beautiful smile are treated by one doctor with one plan.
• She understands the whole face. She also performs facial aesthetic treatments such as botulinum toxin and buccal fat removal, so she sees the smile as part of facial harmony, not just a row of teeth.

New-generation smile design

The classic Hollywood Smile gave everyone the same bright, identical teeth. Dr. Uzel’s new-generation smile design starts from the opposite idea: the right smile is the one that fits your face, your lips and your personality.

What she designs around

How the process works

1. Digital analysis. High-resolution photos of your face and smile, plus a digital scan of your teeth.
2. Design on screen. Tooth size, shape, midline, gum levels and lip relationship are planned together in smile-design software.
3. Try it in your mouth. A temporary mock-up of the new smile is placed over your own teeth, so you can see it, speak with it and ask for changes before any treatment.
4. Minimal preparation. Teeth are prepared only as much as the chosen material needs; gums are reshaped by laser where the design calls for it.
5. Final restorations. Porcelain or E-max veneers or crowns, made in our ComfyDent® Lab to her design, then bonded and checked against the bite.

The result she aims for is a smile people notice without being able to say what was done.

Education

Further training

Clinical roles

Treatments

Below we list all treatments Dr. Tansu Uzel can help you with.

1. Smile design and aesthetic dentistry

• Personalised Hollywood Smile and digital smile design
• Trial smile (mock-up) before treatment
• Porcelain and E-max veneers
• Zirconia and E-max crowns
• Composite bonding and gap closure
• Laser gum contouring (gingivoplasty) for a gummy or uneven smile
• Teeth whitening

2. Implants and full-mouth reconstruction

• Single and multiple dental implants
• All-on-4, All-on-6 and full-mouth dental implants in Turkey
• Zygomatic implants for severely resorbed upper jaws
• Immediate (same-day) implants
• Bone grafting, sinus lift and split-crest osteotomy

3. Oral and jaw surgery

• Impacted wisdom teeth and complex extractions
• Orthognathic (corrective jaw) surgery and genioplasty
• Jaw and facial asymmetry assessment

4. Facial aesthetics, jaw joint and grinding

• Botulinum toxin for clenching, grinding (bruxism) and jaw-muscle pain
• Buccal fat removal (bichectomy)
• Non-surgical facial rejuvenation with dermal fillers
• Diagnosis and treatment of TMJ (jaw joint) disorders

Research and congress presentations

Publications

Oral presentations

Her research sits where the jaws, the facial muscles and the face’s proportions meet: corrective jaw surgery, chin surgery and botulinum toxin. It is the same territory her smile design works in.

Research topics: orthognathic surgery · genioplasty · facial asymmetry · botulinum toxin · temporomandibular disorders · dental implantology