If there was one thing you could do differently in your dentistry that would immediately improve your clinical outcomes, would you do it? This sounds like a gimmick or an infomercial for the latest technology for dental offices but actually involves a $40 bottle of solution you probably remember from dental school and a dive into the science behind why it reliably improves restorations.

“If it weren’t for the doctors I mentor, I would be on a beach right now in the Philippines,” Alleman Center mentor Dr. Patrick Calalang often says with a smile and a laugh. Yes, that is a positive statement.

Biomimetic Dentistry, also known as Biomimetic Restorative Dentistry, has seen a rise in recognition in recent years, but these techniques didn’t spring up overnight. Called Adhesive Dentistry when the techniques were first explored in the 1980’s by Fusayama, the term Biomimetic Restorative Dentistry was defined by Pascal Magne in his 2002 book with U. Belser, Bonded Porcelain Restorations in the Anterior Dentition, as “The biomimetic principle, that is the idea that the intact tooth... is the guide to reconstruction….”

Welcome to the Alleman Center of Biomimetic Dentistry. In 2019, Hillary Alleman founded the center to create a Biomimetic Mastership program featuring her father’s work, the Six Lessons Approach to Biomimetic Dentistry. The Biomimetic Mastership is a comprehensive program that teaches dentists how to use the Six Lessons Approach to create the best outcomes for their patients. It may seem like Biomimetic Dentistry sprouted up overnight, but Dr. Alleman’s work in the field of biomimetic restorative dentistry has roots that go back several decades.