Medically reviewed by Dr. Saurabh Shrivastava, BDS MDS Prosthodontist, Certified Digital Smile Designer (DSD) (DCI: A-04860). Last updated: May 2026.

Dr. Saurabh Shrivastava, BDS MDS Prosthodontist (DCI: A-04860), is a Certified Digital Smile Designer with 15+ years of clinical experience leading prosthodontic and cosmetic dental treatment at Smile Gallery Dental Wellness Centre, Arera Colony, Bhopal. As a dentist in Arera Colony, Bhopal, he sees patients from MP Nagar and across the city for implants, crowns, veneers, smile design, and full-mouth rehabilitation. 

Qualifications of Your Dentist in Arera Colony, Bhopal

In short: Dr. Saurabh is a specialist prosthodontist and dentist in Arera Colony, Bhopal — BDS, MDS Prosthodontics (DCI: A-04860) and a Certified Digital Smile Designer.

Dr. Saurabh holds a BDS followed by an MDS in Prosthodontics. He is registered with the Dental Council of India under registration number A-04860. He is a Certified Digital Smile Designer, having completed the structured training that supports the digital smile design workflow used at Smile Gallery.

Areas of Clinical Focus

His clinical work centres on dental implants (single-tooth, multi-tooth, and full-arch), prosthetic crowns and bridges, smile design with veneers and ceramic restorations, full-mouth rehabilitation, and root canal therapy. Diode laser support is used where appropriate. Diode laser support is used where appropriate.

The Digital Smile Design Approach

For cosmetic cases, Dr. Saurabh uses a digital smile design workflow. Photographs and an intra-oral scan generate a previewable end-result rendered onto the patient’s own face. The patient agrees the planned shape, length, and arrangement before any tooth is touched.

"I have never compromised on materials, technique, or sterilisation standards in 15 years of practice. Bhopal patients deserve the same clinical standard that any metropolitan patient would expect — and that standard is achievable here, right now, with the right training and the right tools."

Dr. Saurabh Shrivastava · BDS, MDS Prosthodontist, DCI A-04860

A Personal Belief About Practice

‘Every patient who walks into Smile Gallery is unique and deserves to understand exactly what is happening in their mouth and why. I have never compromised on materials, technique, or sterilisation standards in 15 years of practice.’

How a First Visit Looks

Quick answer: a first visit with the dentist in Arera Colony, Bhopal runs 30 to 45 minutes — exam, photographs, X-rays where needed, and a written, itemised plan with no same-day pressure.

The first appointment runs 30 to 45 minutes. It includes a clinical examination, photographs, digital X-rays where indicated, and a written treatment plan that lists priority work, optional steps, materials proposed, the number of visits each step requires, and an itemised estimate. There is no pressure to start the same day for non-emergency work.

Names and identifying details changed for privacy.

Illustration for patient privacy — identifying details altered.
The clinical case and outcome are from Dr. Saurabh Shrivastava's practice.

I want to tell you what it actually feels like to be a patient at Smile Gallery — because I spent 6 years avoiding dentists, and the experience here was nothing like what I had steeled myself for.

My name is Rakesh, and I am a bank manager in MP Nagar. I am 42. I had avoided dental visits since a bad experience at a clinic in my home town — rough, rushed, and no explanation of what was happening. By the time I walked into Smile Gallery, I had a broken upper molar, 2 teeth that ached intermittently, and gums that bled every morning.

"Let me show you what is happening," Dr. Saurabh said, within the first few minutes, turning the monitor toward me. He walked me through the digital X-rays on screen, pointed out exactly where the problems were, and explained each one in plain language. No jargon, no condescension. I was 42 years old and this was the first time a dentist had actually explained my own mouth to me.

He gave me a printed treatment plan before I left that first consultation. Every step was listed — the general dentistry work first, the scaling and the 2 fillings, and then the more involved work on the broken molar which needed root canal treatment and a crown. Each step had a cost beside it. "Take this home, read it, and call if you have questions. You do not have to decide anything today."

I went home that evening genuinely surprised. I had expected to feel pressured. I had expected the kind of rushed consultation where you leave more confused than you arrived. Instead I sat at my kitchen table and read a document that made sense. I called back the next morning to book the first appointment.

The scaling took 40 minutes. The root canal was done across 2 visits. The ceramic crown was placed 3 weeks later. At every stage Dr. Saurabh explained what he was doing and why. The 2 composite fillings on the adjacent teeth were completed the same day as the crown delivery. I walked out of that final visit with no aching teeth, no bleeding gums, and a broken molar that now functioned completely normally.

At my follow-up 6 months later, all the work was intact. No new cavities. Gum health fully restored. "I have been recommending you to everyone I know," I told Dr. Saurabh. "My wife, my brother, my colleague — all of them have come here now."

If you are in Bhopal and you have been putting off a dental visit the way I was — out of old anxiety, out of past bad experiences — I genuinely want you to know that it does not have to be that way. The difference is the person across the chair. Here, that person takes his time, tells you the truth, and does the work to the standard he promises.

— Dr. Saurabh Shrivastava
BDS, MDS Prosthodontist · DCI A-04860 · Smile Gallery, Bhopal