Client work

Dr. Mamaly Reshad

A prosthodontist with over 30 years in practice, a USC chairmanship behind him and a teaching career in front of other dentists. We built drreshad.com around what his patients most want to see: cases like their own.

Client
Dr. Mamaly Reshad, prosthodontist
Role
Brand, website, content and search
Year
2026

drreshad.com

Scroll to move through the home page.

60
documented patient cases, each behind a consent check
110
videos, captioned and compressed for phones
6.95s → 1.00s
home page load, measured before and after
41
pages rendered ahead of time for search

The brief

Patients considering full-arch or reconstruction work research for weeks before they call. They want proof: cases like theirs, a doctor they can trust, and a way to reach the office without friction.

Dr. Reshad had the proof. Thirty years of it. The job was to make it findable, readable and fast.

Cases first

Patients don't search for procedure names. They search for "my teeth are failing and I don't know where to start." Every case is filed under the problem the patient arrived with, numbered rather than named, and published only once consent is on file.

Before and after photographs are cropped to the same facial landmarks so each pair reads honestly.

The cases page, headed What each patient arrived with, filtered by problem.

Built in his voice

A recorded brand interview became the brand guidelines and the copy. The Education Center gathers his teaching, lectures and publications in one place, for patients and for the dentists who refer to him.

The Education Center, headed Teaching Doctors Around the World.

The brand book

The interview became the brand book: the brand, the voice and the identity, with every quotation in his own words. It is the reference for every page of the site, every post and every printed piece.

It was built as a web page in the practice's own visual language. Here it is, baked in.

Brand Book · Version 1.0 · 30 September 2026

The Dentist's Dentist, in his own words

One source for how Dr. Mamaly Reshad's practice looks, sounds and decides. The visual system is the one already proven on drreshad.com. The verbal system is new, built from a twelve-question interview recorded on 30 September 2026. Every quotation on this page is his.

Dr Reshad, Beverly Hills wordmark

The four pillars

Ethics, preservation, long-term planning, and seeing the end at the beginning. His words.

  • Ethics"Without ethics nothing works."
  • Preservation"I do the best I can to preserve what the patient has."
  • Long-term"Teeth that stay in the mouth for decades to come."
  • Planned"I see the end goal at the beginning."
01Who we are

The doctor is the brand

Dr. Reshad is a specialist prosthodontist. Patients look for him by name, and the practice name got in the way. From January 2027 the practice, the lectures and the website carry his name. ArtLab continues only as the name of the laboratory and of future products.

Dr. Reshad

The practice, the clinician, the lectures

drreshad.com is the only patient-facing brand. Lecture bookings are made under his name. No second clinician appears on the brand.

"It's the doctor that you're going to."

Dr. Reshad

ArtLab

The laboratory and the products

The name described the work: artistic dentistry with much of the laboratory work done in house. The lab stays. Future products (a whitening line, masterclasses) may carry the ArtLab name.

"It's all like an art laboratory."

Dr. Reshad

Origin, in four moves
LONDON

King's College

Dental degree. "I just felt that I needed to know more. There were many unknowns about all the things that I needed to learn to make me a really complete dentist."

LONDON

The Eastman

MSc with distinction. Then a USC lecturer visits, and he sees "further advancements that I could achieve in my career by learning full mouth reconstructions and implant reconstruction to the highest level."

LOS ANGELES

USC

Advanced prosthodontics, then nearly a decade on the faculty, teaching and running the fixed and operative dentistry programme. Back to London for his children, then back to California.

2027

Beverly Hills

Two practices condensed into one. "I researched and researched and researched, based on my patients' needs. From all parameters I wanted to create the perfect prosthodontic practice."

"When the patient shows up in my chair, I know exactly what needs to be done by the end and I see the end goal at the beginning. I can plan it, design it, and work back from that. A little bit like how an architect designs a house."

Dr. Reshad
02Philosophy

With ethics everything can be fixed. Without ethics nothing works.

Asked for the one thing every dentist should understand, he did not name a technique. He named ethics, and ranked it above skill. The other three pillars follow from it.

01 · Ethics

The patient before the practice

"An ethical dentist will always put the patient first, not finances. The plan is not to generate income but rather to do what's best for the patient. Invest in your patients, care for your patients, and you'll have a successful practice."

Three tests, in his order: refer out when the skill isn't there; address a problem when you meet it; put the patient before finances. "Even if you've got the best skill set, if you haven't got the ethics, that could be a terrible situation."

Dr. Reshad

02 · Preservation, with a limit

Tooth structure is sacred. Sometimes it still has to go.

"I always try to be conservative, biomimetic, whatever you want to call it. I do the best I can to preserve what the patient has, but sometimes that is not possible. If it's gone beyond the point of repair, it's sometimes better to plan for the next chapter of the patient's life."

This is the tension a prosthodontist holds and a cosmetic dentist does not. It is why the same practice does no-prep veneers and full-arch reconstruction.

Dr. Reshad

03 · Long-term planning

Decades, not appointments

"This patient is going to live to a certain optimal age in their golden years and we want these teeth to stay in their mouth for decades to come. What is it that we are going to do to make sure that stays in the mouth and functions well?"

"Patients do not have too much dentistry. If they need it they get it done once, and that's it. They're just in the maintenance program."

Dr. Reshad

04 · See the end at the beginning

Plan, then execute, in one pair of hands

"I can plan it, design it, and work back from that and I go step by step towards the goal. Invariably we always achieve those goals because I know how it all works."

Two halves of the promise, in his order: the plan (understanding) and the hands (execution to a high standard). "The prosthodontist is the quarterback."

Dr. Reshad

The refusal, made concrete

"I wouldn't just replace the crown and put a crown on an infected tooth. I always would like to sort out the foundations and then put the crown on. We'd rather not do the work, not have the income, but do what we think is right to avoid problems for the patient."

His refusals are about sequence and harm, never about taste.

03Positioning

The specialist that specialists send their families to

Positioning statement

Dr. Reshad is the prosthodontist for people who want dental work done once and kept for decades, because he plans the whole result before he starts, refuses the shortcuts that fail, and has taught the specialists who do this work for twenty years.

Value proposition

For a patient with complex, failed or high-stakes dental work, Dr. Reshad is a specialist prosthodontist who sees the end result at the first visit and executes it himself. Unlike a practice built on volume or marketing, he treats the way he teaches: foundations first, no corners cut, followed up for as long as it takes.

"We just do what is best for the patient and we're not concerned about others. We respect other doctors and what they do, but this is our philosophy."

The rule for every comparison: never a named competitor, never an attack. The only foil is the shortcut.
04Voice

Kind. Ethical. Meticulous.

Asked how he wants to be described, he chose ordinary words, in this order. Beauty came after all three, and "painless" last. No superlatives. The brand speaks as "we"; Dr. Reshad is described by fact, not adjective.

Kind

We are
  • Warm and unhurried. We read the plan aloud.
  • Honest about what can fail and why.
  • Willing to send a patient to a doctor they relate to better.
We are not
  • Effusive. No exclamation marks, no emoji.
  • Flattering. "Beautiful" is earned at the end, never promised at the start.

Ethical

We are
  • Plain about money: what the fee contains, what a cheaper fee leaves out.
  • Clear that we refuse work that harms.
  • Respectful of other doctors. We describe what we do.
We are not
  • Comparative. No "unlike other dentists."
  • Promotional. No free consults, no offers, no urgency.

Meticulous

We are
  • Specific: appointment lengths, steps, materials, years.
  • Sequential: foundations, then restorations. Plan, then execute.
  • Evidential: the return visit over the before-and-after.
We are not
  • Vague. "State-of-the-art" says nothing; say what the equipment does.
  • Superlative. "Very good at the job" is his phrase; "world-class" is not.
Three rhythms he uses

The declarative pair

"With ethics everything can be fixed. Without ethics nothing works."

Two short sentences, mirror structure. Use for headlines and closing lines.

The triad

"There's always ethics, there's always preservation, and there's always long-term planning."

Repeated frame, three items. Use for section intros.

The plain list

"We care. We're ethical. We're meticulous in precision, planning, execution, and delivery."

Facts in a row, no connective tissue. Use for proof blocks.

Tone by context
ContextShiftSounds like
New patientWarm, procedural. Name every step and its length."The first visit is about an hour. You leave with two or three options and a rough idea of cost."
Revision patientCalm, non-judgemental about the previous dentist. Foundations first."Before anything is replaced, we find out why it failed."
Referring specialistPeer to peer, brief, systems and follow-up."Records back to you within the week. We check the bite at every recall."
Lecture enquiryDirect, dates and topics, no self-description."Full-arch reconstruction, the ten-year mark. Ninety minutes, cases from twenty years of follow-up."
Front deskPlain logistics. Hours, address, what to bring."Camden Drive, Suite 750. Bring any X-rays you have."
05Messaging

Every message carries its proof

Mission

We plan complete, long-lasting dental results for people who want the work done once, and we execute those plans ourselves, so that they can go back to living with their teeth rather than managing them.

Vision

A practice where patients come back after twenty-five years for a check-up, not a repair. "These are the prime years of my career." One location, the doctor himself, the highest quality of work.

Primary message

The dentist's dentist: the specialist that periodontists and oral surgeons send their own families to, because he treats the way he teaches.

07Colour

Black and white, one green, and the light behind the glass

Monochrome surfaces carry the clinical work. One sea-green accent, still named --gold in the code, marks labels, rules and links. Field pages sit on a dark ground lit by five soft lights whose hue changes by room.

Neutrals (paper pages)
Ink#0F0F0F · hsl(0 0% 6%)
Text on paper. Clinical stages.
Ink soft#262626 · hsl(0 0% 15%)
Secondary text on paper.
Paper#FFFFFF · hsl(0 0% 100%)
Article pages, guides.
Paper dim#EBEBEB · hsl(0 0% 92%)
Muted sections.
Card tint#F6F7F8 · hsl(210 15% 97%)
Cards on paper.
Muted ink#666666 · hsl(0 0% 40%)
Captions on paper.
Hairline#E0E0E0 · hsl(0 0% 88%)
Dividers on paper.
Ink deep#0A0A0A · hsl(0 0% 4%)
Footer, plate stages.
Accent (the "gold" family)
Gold#298E7D · hsl(170 55% 36%)
Rules, bullets, focus.
Gold text#20796A · hsl(170 58% 30%)
Labels on paper. 4.6:1 on white.
Gold light#5EC9B8 · hsl(170 50% 58%)
Labels and links on the field.
Gold bright#2FBCA4 · hsl(170 60% 46%)
Text selection.
Gold dark#1A6659 · hsl(170 60% 25%)
Hover on paper.
Gradient text135° gold → light → gold
One phrase per heading, at most.
The field
Ground, education#0D0A23 · oklch(0.165 0.05 285)
This page. Hue 285.
Ground, Cold Open#001516 · oklch(0.165 0.055 195)
Home and About. Hue 181.
Lights, educationL .30–.36 · C .055–.12 · H 265–305
Five lights, purple to lamp blue.
Lights, Cold OpenH 185–265
Electric blue to sea green.
Hairline on field#3A1D44 · hsl(H 41% 19%)
Borders, table rules.
Muted on field#B7A3BD · hsl(H 17% 69%)
Secondary text. 7:1 on ground.
Glasshsla(220 40% 95% / .12)
Card fill over the field.
Ink on field#FFFFFF
All primary text. Buttons.
08Typography

Four faces, four jobs

Syne for headings and labels, Inter for reading, DM Sans for buttons and figures, DM Serif Display italic for his words when they stand alone. All four are self-hosted on the site as variable Latin subsets. The root size is 18 px.

Display

Syne

Headings 400–700, labels at 500. Tight tracking, −0.03em. The home hero is the only place it runs at 8.4vw.

Body

Inter

All running text, 300–600. Line height 1.6. Measure about 65 characters.

Precision

DM Sans

Buttons, sources, figures, tabular numbers. Uppercase at 0.12–0.15em.

Quote

DM Serif

Italic only, for his words set as pull quotes. Never for headings.

Scale, as the site defines it
.heading-display
2.35rem → 8xl · 700 · −0.03em · 1.0
Teaching Doctors Around the World
.heading-section
2xl → 5xl · 700 · −0.02em · 1.05
Twenty Years at the Front of the Room
.heading-card
lg → 2xl · 600 · −0.02em
A Hopeless Tooth Is Not a Useless Tooth
.label-tech
Syne 12px · 500 · caps · 0.2em
gIDE Faculty · Twenty Years
.body-lg
Inter 18–20px · 1.65
Sort out the foundations, then put the crown on.
.body-base
Inter 18px · 1.65
She returned to the Beverly Hills office for a single tooth, one he had never restored.
.body-sm
Inter 15.75px · 1.6
Individual results vary. Photographs published with the patient's written consent.
button
DM Sans 12px · 500 · caps · 0.15em · pill
Book a consultation
pull quote
DM Serif italic · 1.35–2.1rem · 1.25
"That's the evidence there."
09Surfaces and components

Sharp paper, frosted glass, pill buttons

Three radii and no more. Editorial surfaces on paper are square. Buttons are pills. Glass cards, the standard surface on every field page since 30 September 2026, carry the only 12 px corner.

Frosted glass card

This card is the specimen

Blur is applied only on fine-pointer devices; phones get a slightly denser fill instead. Hover lifts four pixels and brightens the border. On a field page nothing else needs a border.

.on-field .glass-card {
  background: hsla(220, 40%, 95%, 0.12);
  border: 1px solid hsla(0, 0%, 100%, 0.18);
  border-radius: 12px;
  box-shadow: 0 20px 60px -20px rgb(0 0 0 / .5);
}
@media (hover: hover) and (pointer: fine) {
  .on-field .glass-card {
    backdrop-filter: blur(24px) saturate(1.4);
  }
  .on-field .glass-card:hover {
    background: hsla(220, 40%, 95%, 0.18);
    border-color: hsla(0, 0%, 100%, 0.30);
    transform: translateY(-4px);
  }
}
@media (hover: none) {
  .on-field .glass-card { background: hsla(220, 40%, 95%, 0.16); }
}
Rules
Radius
0 on paper surfaces and plates. 12 px on glass. 9999 px on buttons and chips.
Divider
1 px, gold fading to transparent, 4–6 rem wide, under every section heading.
Section rhythm
py-16 lg:py-24, or py-20 lg:py-32 for the closing section. Nothing else.
Container
12 columns, 1440 px, 3 rem gutters. Content in columns 2–11.
Clinical plates
Always on a black stage, full bleed, two frames per row at most, pairs sharing one aspect.
Buttons
Book a consultationBook a lecture

One solid, one outline. On paper the solid button is ink; on the field it is white. There is one phone affordance on the site and one Book Now; the brand does not stack calls to action.

10Motion

Nothing blurs, spins or rotates. Nothing moves more than 40 px.

The one reveal
Enter
Opacity 0 → 1 and a 28 px rise (12 px on phones), 600 ms, once, at 15% visibility.
Easing
Fluid cubic-bezier(0.22, 1, 0.36, 1). Swift cubic-bezier(0.77, 0, 0.175, 1) for exits only.
Durations
250 ms fast (hover), 600 ms medium (reveal), 1000 ms slow (masked headings).
Stagger
70 ms between siblings.
Field drift
Each light translates 3vmax by 2vmax over 29–38 s, alternating. Pointer devices only.
Reduced motion
Everything arrives already in place. The field holds still.
Replay
Ethics
Preservation
Long-term planning
11Imagery

Editorial, never stock

Dr. Reshad lecturing, a clinical case on the screen behind him
Clinical photography
Consent
Every frame is gated on a cleared consent row. Video needs its own clearance; a photo release does not extend to a face in motion.
Names
First name only today. The site is moving to "Case 1 Veneers" labels; when it does, no name appears anywhere.
Stage
Black. Full bleed. Two across at most. Before and after pairs share one aspect and one cut.
Marks
No burned-in captions, arrows, dates or IDs. Crop or paint them out at staging, never on the page.
Claims
"Individual results vary" on every social before-and-after. No treatment durations unless he stated them.
The doctor and the room
Portraits
His own lecture and clinic photographs. Available light or one soft source. No stock, no filters, no retouching beyond exposure.
The screen
Where possible, a case on the screen behind him. "Slide after slide of your work on a big screen" is the proof of meticulousness.
Colour
Natural. The accent green never tints a photograph.
Text on image
Only over a gradient scrim tinted to the room's ground, never black.

Fast, and found

We rebuilt the front end and the media pipeline, then measured the same pages before and after. Every page is rendered ahead of time with structured data that ties the doctor, the practice and both locations together.

The site keeps growing every week: new cases, captioned video, landing pages for print and QR, and local search work.

The drreshad.com home page on a phone.
The contact page on a phone, with call and email buttons.

Built phone-first: most patients meet the practice on a phone.