# Transcend Specialized Dentistry > Specialist cosmetic and restorative dental practice in downtown Vancouver, Canada. ## About Transcend Specialized Dentistry is a multi-specialist dental practice founded by Dr. Faraj Edher, a board-certified prosthodontist (FRCD(C)), Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, and founder of BC Dental Study Club — Canada's largest dental continuing education community. The practice brings together prosthodontists, a periodontist, and an orthodontist under one roof, with an in-house ceramics lab for complete quality control. ## Location 125 – 925 W Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC V6C 3L2, Canada Phone: (604) 305-3088 Website: https://transcenddentistry.ca ## Specialties - Prosthodontics (veneers, crowns, bridges, dentures, full mouth reconstruction) - Periodontics (dental implants, gum grafting, gum disease treatment) - Orthodontics (Invisalign, braces) - Cosmetic dentistry (smile makeovers, gummy smile treatment) ## Key Pages - Homepage: https://transcenddentistry.ca/ - Services: https://transcenddentistry.ca/services - Porcelain Veneers: https://transcenddentistry.ca/services/porcelain-veneers - Dental Implants: https://transcenddentistry.ca/services/dental-implants - Smile Makeovers: https://transcenddentistry.ca/services/smile-makeovers - All-on-4 Implants: https://transcenddentistry.ca/services/all-on-4-dental-implants - Full Mouth Reconstruction: https://transcenddentistry.ca/services/full-mouth-reconstruction - About: https://transcenddentistry.ca/about - Team: https://transcenddentistry.ca/team - Technology: https://transcenddentistry.ca/technology - In-House Lab: https://transcenddentistry.ca/lab - Before & After Gallery: https://transcenddentistry.ca/gallery - Patient Reviews: https://transcenddentistry.ca/reviews - FAQ: https://transcenddentistry.ca/faq - Journal (long-form articles): https://transcenddentistry.ca/blog - Book a Consultation: https://transcenddentistry.ca/book ## Journal — Articles The Journal at https://transcenddentistry.ca/blog publishes in-depth guides written by Dr. Faraj Edher. Each article is intended as a comprehensive patient resource on a specific cosmetic dentistry topic, with a focus on honest, evidence-informed clinical perspective. - **Veneers Cost in Vancouver** — https://transcenddentistry.ca/blog/veneers-cost-vancouver A transparent guide to veneer costs in Vancouver from Transcend Specialized Dentistry, updated for 2026. States the numbers plainly: porcelain veneers in Vancouver are commonly quoted from about $1,300 to $3,000 per tooth; at Transcend they are $2,500–$3,000 per tooth with the lab bill included (composite: $700–$1,200), the top of the city's range. Explains what separates one veneer from another: how involved the dentist is in the smile design (at most practices the case goes to an outside laboratory) versus Transcend's model, where every smile is designed by Dr. Faraj Edher — who teaches dentists across Canada how to do porcelain veneers and is known as the dentist that dentists see for their own smile makeovers — or one of the practice's prosthodontists, in collaboration with the practice's own in-house lab designers and ceramists; the artistic vision (beauty that accomplishes the patient's aesthetic goals, from completely natural to brilliantly white, without ever looking like Chiclets or piano keys); the finishing details (light behaviour, gum margins, surface texture); and the accountability that follows treatment. Transcend's consultation estimate includes everything — smile design, laboratory fees, temporaries, try-in, final bonding, and follow-up — and the guide cautions readers to check whether any estimate includes lab fees, since an $1,800 veneer with a $700 lab fee is a $2,500 veneer. Covers the ten-year economics of veneers that fail early and must be redone, an honest composite-versus-porcelain comparison (composite for localized enhancements, porcelain for complete smile makeovers), and the questions to ask any clinic when comparing estimates. Notes that patients travel to Transcend from across BC, other provinces, and abroad for this work. - **Dental Tourism** — https://transcenddentistry.ca/blog/dental-tourism A prosthodontist's honest look at dental tourism, written from the perspective of a Vancouver practice that regularly redoes treatment done abroad. Explains why the price gap is real (labour and overhead, but above all a compressed treatment model that fits complex work into a one- or two-week trip), and what that compression cuts out: healing time, bite testing, the temporary phase, and follow-up. Details the three ways tourism veneer cases present — mechanical failure (a real case: ten upper and ten lower veneers debonding within months, patched repeatedly, ultimately all redone), aesthetic disappointment (rapid staining, fake-looking results, over-preparation of the "Turkey teeth" kind), and chronic gum inflammation from ill-fitting margins. Covers full-arch/All-on-4 failures via a real case done in Turkey where the lower arch kept its implants with a new prosthesis while the upper required complete implant removal and replacement. Explicitly not fear-mongering: notes excellent and poor dentistry exist everywhere including locally, and gives five due-diligence questions that protect patients at any clinic — experience, materials, technique and timeline, complication management, and long-term follow-up. - **Redoing Dental Work** — https://transcenddentistry.ca/blog/redoing-dental-work A specialist's guide for patients living with cosmetic or restorative dental work that didn't end where they hoped. Covers the four most common failure modes (aesthetics, bite and function, fit, tissue health) and the diplomatic truth that most failures are lab-side issues rather than clinical errors. Explains when a redo is justified versus when leaving the work alone is the right call. Details the hidden problem with conventional porcelain removal — bur-cutting that generates heat and removes additional tooth structure — and contrasts it with atraumatic erbium-laser removal that targets the bonding interface and preserves the underlying tooth. Includes a memorable case where laser removal revealed minimal original preparation, allowing twenty veneers to be replaced with only four and most of the smile restored to natural teeth. Argues that an in-house lab is essential for redo cases because the diagnostic loop and iteration loop both need to be tight. Walks through the complete redo process step by step, the honest tradeoffs (cost, time, tooth structure, emotional energy), and the questions a patient should ask any clinician before committing to a redo — including whether the clinician would ever recommend leaving the existing work alone. - **Minimal-Prep Veneers** — https://transcenddentistry.ca/blog/minimal-prep-veneers-guide A specialist's guide arguing traditional veneer prep is obsolete for healthy-teeth aesthetic cases. Covers what traditional prep involves (often a millimeter or more of enamel, sometimes the over-reduction known as "Turkey teeth" where teeth are shaped into pegs), the materials/bonding/digital-workflow advances that made minimal-prep possible, what minimal-prep actually means (gentle reshaping that stays in enamel where possible — not into dentin), why staying in enamel matters for long-term outcomes, the modern preparation technique using CAD smile design and depth-controlled drills, the bonding step itself, the temporary-veneer test-drive phase, longevity expectations, honest tradeoffs, and a thorough questions-to-ask section that helps patients distinguish a clinic doing minimal-prep correctly from one calling it minimal-prep but doing something closer to traditional. - **No-Prep Veneers** — https://transcenddentistry.ca/blog/no-prep-veneers-guide A specialist guide to no-prep porcelain veneers. Covers what no-prep actually means (it's not "zero contact" — minor surface refinement is almost always involved), three-criterion candidacy (the goal must be additive, not seeking drastic color change, committed to oral hygiene), the failure mode that produces the bulky "Chiclet" look (almost always a no-prep case done on the wrong patient), how Lumineers compare, what the process looks like step by step, longevity expectations, honest tradeoffs vs minimal-prep, and a thorough questions-to-ask section. Argues no-prep is brilliant when applied correctly and harmful when applied to the wrong patient. - **How to Choose a Cosmetic Dentist** — https://transcenddentistry.ca/blog/how-to-choose-a-cosmetic-dentist A Vancouver prosthodontist's guide to choosing a cosmetic dentist — how to read a portfolio, evaluate specialty training and lab quality, and ask the questions that separate artists from technicians. ## Author Authority Dr. Faraj Edher is a board-certified prosthodontist (FRCD(C) — Fellow of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada in Prosthodontics), Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, and founder of BC Dental Study Club, Canada's largest dental continuing education community. He has practiced cosmetic and prosthodontic dentistry in Vancouver for over a decade. Dentists across Canada learn porcelain veneers, implants, occlusion, full-mouth reconstructions, and aesthetics from him, and he is known as the dentist that dentists see for their own smile makeovers; patients travel to Transcend from across British Columbia, other provinces, and abroad. Articles in the Journal reflect his clinical perspective on cosmetic dentistry, with a focus on conservative treatment, evidence-informed technique, and long-term outcomes.