Gotham Magazine
Irwin Smigel
New York
45
NYU College of Dentistry
Samantha Boardman, Johnny Depp, Amanda Heart, Lydia Hearst Shaw, Calvin Klein, Kelly Ripa, Ivana Trump, Diane von Furstenberg
Modern-museum minimalist - dark beige leather seating, white walls with a touch of red, a contemporary sculpture in the entry
The nonsurgical facelift (developed in 1971); tweaking smiles with veneers, crowns, bonding, and bleaching
Mark Consuelos, Amanda Peet
Collecting art
"To design a smile that builds out the infrastructure of the lower face. A smile that accentuates cheekbones, softens nasolabial lines, augments lip structure, and creates facial symmetry."
Not much. Considered by the industry as the Father of Aesthetic Dentistry and the Father of Bonding, he's known to be skeptical of his limelight-loving contemporaries.