A DENTIST-TO-THE-STARS EVOLVES HIS PRACTICE WITH A LINEUP OF CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGIES

BY ERIK SCHONING

Dr. Anthony Vocaturo has made a career out of making people smile. At his office, NJ Smile Center in Colts Neck, the doctor sees patients of every stripe, from celebrity clients to long-time locals. He’s no stranger to fame, serving as the cosmetic dentist for the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageant systems, and working with international modeling agencies. Dr. Vocaturo has built a reputation for sterling service, regardless of a client’s star status; after all, celebrities (and their teeth) are just like us.

Despite the success, the press, and the big-name clients, Dr. Vocaturo and his team at NJ Smile Center are never content to rest on their laurels. The practice is equipped with the latest in technological innovation, including a digital scanning technology, the 3Shape Trios, and Mavrik TheraSmile, an in-office teeth whitening technology. 3Shape Trios allows Dr. Vocaturo and his team to skip the process of making impressions entirely, instead taking thousands of pictures in a flash and meshing them all together. That gives him the ability to produce temporaries that exactly match a final result.

“The way it used to be, you would do your temporaries, and it’s an exact duplicate of the way you walked in,” Dr. Vocaturo said. “So your teeth will be whiter, but they usually kind of look the same. Now we can design them right in your mouth, so that the temporaries look exactly like the final result.”

The Mavrik TheraSmile technology allows for whitening in a vacuum, constantly replenishing the bleach instead of having patients sit for 45 minutes. (Anyone who’s had teeth whitening done knows this has historically been a tedious process.) Dr. Vocaturo’s practice is one of the first on the East Coast to offer this technology.

By fusing the latest in dental technology with an impressive facility and high-end clientele, Dr. Vocaturo and his team at NJ Smile Center strive to continue to set the bar for dental care in the state – one smile at a time. njsmilecenter.com