Dubai · Jumeirah · 4 min read
The short answer
Dr. Khalid Saeed designs smiles in Dubai at Creative Arts Dental & Aesthetics, 614 Jumeira St, Jumeirah 3, Umm Suqeim 1. Each smile is designed digitally and tried in your mouth as a mock-up before any tooth is prepared. The veneers are then made at Creative Art Dental Lab in the same building, so dentist and technician agree shape and shade face to face.
A good smile design is a set of decisions about tooth length, width, edge shape, gum line and how the teeth sit against your lips when you talk. It is not a shade picked from a chart. That is why Dr. Khalid Saeed treats design as the first stage of every cosmetic case, whether in Duhok or in Dubai.
In Dubai he works at the smile design centre at Creative Arts in Jumeirah, the practice he co-founded and where he has worked for about three years. For expats and visitors looking for a cosmetic dentist in Jumeirah, the practical advantage is simple: the lab that turns the design into porcelain is downstairs, not across the city.
Quick facts
Digital smile design means planning your new teeth on photos of your face before anything is done to them. Dr. Khalid starts with front and side photos of your face and smile, then sets tooth proportions to suit your smile width and the curve of your lower lip.
The plan is then turned into a temporary mock-up placed over your existing teeth. You look in the mirror, talk, laugh, and give honest feedback. Longer, shorter, softer edges, a less uniform look: changes at this stage cost little because no enamel has been removed.
It is the same method he uses in Duhok. In Dubai, bookings, scheduling and aftercare run through the Creative Arts smile design team in Jumeirah, open daily from 10:00 to 20:00.
An in-house lab cuts out much of the guesswork between dentist and technician. Creative Art Dental Lab sits in the Creative Arts building, and it makes the veneers and crowns Dr. Khalid designs, including those for his patients in Duhok.
The technician can see the patient or the photos and discuss translucency, edge detail and shade with the dentist directly, rather than working from a written prescription alone. If a veneer needs a small adjustment after the try-in, the trip from chair to bench is short.
This does not mean every case is finished in a fixed number of days. Timing still depends on the number of teeth, the material and the health of the gums.
Every case follows a written sequence, and no tooth is prepared before you approve the design. A typical Dubai pathway looks like this:
The design decides far more than colour. It sets the length of the front teeth relative to the lip, each tooth's width, the edge shape, how much tooth shows at rest and in a full smile, and whether the smile line follows the lower lip.
It also shows whether the gum line needs attention first, and whether crowding would be better handled with orthodontics or whitening rather than veneers. Dr. Khalid's own smile design page explains how he decides. Sometimes the simplest option turns out to be the right one.
You can see the kind of results this planning leads to in the Creative Arts smile gallery in Dubai, which includes cases Dr. Khalid treated there.
Material is chosen after the design, not before. Common options are E.max or porcelain veneers, composite bonding in selected cases, and crowns where a tooth is weak or heavily restored.
E.max is often preferred for front teeth because it combines strength with natural translucency; Creative Arts explains the material on its E.max veneers in Dubai page. For a modest change with little or no preparation, composite may be enough when the case allows.
Whatever the material, the goal stays the same: a smile nobody asks about, because it looks like it was always yours.
These are starting prices published by Creative Arts in October 2026; your final price is written into your treatment plan after examination. Cost depends mainly on how many teeth are treated and which material is used.
These figures apply to Dubai only. Prices at the Duhok clinic are not published; they are written into each patient's plan after the exam.
| Treatment in Dubai | Starting price |
|---|---|
| Veneers | AED 1,250 per tooth |
| Hollywood smile, 10 upper veneers | AED 12,500 |
| Hollywood smile, 20 veneers | AED 25,000 |
| In-clinic teeth whitening | AED 699 |
Dr. Khalid's main practice is Celebrity Smile Center in Duhok, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Patients who prefer to travel there get the same method and the same lab, because veneers for Duhok patients are made in Dubai.
Splitting phases between the two cities works only in some cases, and only if it is agreed in the plan from the start. The Duhok or Dubai comparison sets out how to choose.
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Creative Arts Dental & Aesthetics · Jumeirah, Dubai
Alongside his clinic in Duhok, Dr. Khalid Saeed treats patients at Creative Arts Dental & Aesthetics in Jumeirah, which he co-founded, with Creative Art Dental Lab in the same building. The centre's official pages:
614 Jumeira St, Jumeirah 3, Umm Suqeim 1, Dubai · +971 4 342 4444 · daily 10:00–20:00 · Dr. Khalid DHA licence 06772519
The digital design and the mock-up usually happen early, after the examination and X-rays. The full timeline up to bonding depends on how many teeth are involved, the material chosen and whether gums or teeth need treatment first. Having Creative Art Dental Lab in the same building makes coordination easier, but there is no single fixed timeline for every case. Your plan lists the expected stages and appointments before you start.
Yes, and this is central to how Dr. Khalid Saeed works. After the digital design, a temporary mock-up is placed over your natural teeth without any drilling, so you can see the shape on your own face, speak and smile with it. You can ask for changes to length or shape at this stage, and preparation only begins once you approve the design at Creative Arts in Jumeirah.
No. Smile design is the plan for the final result: length, width, smile line, shade and how the teeth relate to the gums and lips. Veneers are one way of delivering that plan, alongside crowns, composite bonding, whitening and orthodontics. A design can end with a recommendation that involves no veneers at all, if a simpler treatment gives a good result. The decision and the alternatives are written into your plan.
Creative Art Dental Lab in Dubai, in the Creative Arts building in Jumeirah, is where the veneers and crowns designed by Dr. Khalid are made, including those for his patients in Duhok. Having the technician close to the clinic means shade and shape can be discussed directly and adjustments after the try-in can be handled more easily before final bonding.
No. The design stage involves no drilling at all; it is planning and a trial. If the plan leads to veneers, Dr. Khalid prefers minimal preparation, and no-prep veneers are used only when the case allows, for example small teeth or gaps. In some cases whitening, orthodontics or composite bonding is the better answer, and the written plan explains why.
Send a front smile photo, a close-up of your teeth and a side view, together with a short note on what bothers you and what you would like. Add any recent X-rays if you have them. This gives an initial view only; the final decision follows an examination at Creative Arts in Dubai on +971 56 677 7537, or in Duhok if you prefer to travel.
Yes. Dr. Khalid Ali Saeed holds a Dubai Health Authority professional licence, unique ID 06772519, which you can check on the DHA Sheryan register; his profile on the Creative Arts Dubai website describes his role there. He practises at Creative Arts Dental & Aesthetics in Jumeirah 3, Umm Suqeim 1, which he co-founded, alongside his main clinic, Celebrity Smile Center in Duhok, Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
External links to international medical references, for further reading only; they do not replace an examination.
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