Dr Alexander Abedian-Rawháni
Cosmetic Dental Surgeon
Dr Abedian – Rawháni, more popularly known as Dr Smile®️, has an affinity for the Art of Cosmetic, Biomimetic and Digital dentistry, with a special love for Veneers and Smile Makeovers.
Dubbed South Africa’s Celebrity Dentist, Dr Abedian-Rawháni graduated from Wits in 2010, with top subject awards in Paediatric and Restorative Dentistry, Prosthodontic Dentistry and Public Oral Health. After completing his community service year in the Military in 2011, he entered part-time private practice, spending the rest of his week running a mobile dental unit, educating and treating children in schools and communities around the greater Johannesburg area.
He was invited back to join Wits in 2013 as a part time lecturer and clinical supervisor in the department of Restorative and Prosthodontic dentistry, and later pursued postgraduate studies, receiving a Masters of Science in Prosthodontics from the same university in 2016.
Upon graduation, he founded and currently heads Project Smile South Africa, a social impact dentistry initiative in which he provides free smile makeovers to victims of rape. domestic violence and traumatic injuries.
Now in his 13th year of part-time Academic Teaching and Private Practice Dentistry, and recently having relocated to Cape Town, Dr Smile has joined the University of the Western Cape, where he continues teaching with a special focus on helping Dental students develop to their best potential, from the grass roots level helping the new dental students in their pre-clinical restorative techniques and development, all the way to supervision and teaching of final year students with their patients in the government clinics.
Dr Smile has also recently launched his very own range of Oral Healthcare products, with the first of his range, South Africa’s very first designed electric toothbrush, on shelves Nationwide.
Dr Abedian-Rawháni is also a member of SAAAD, South Africa’s Academy of Aesthetic Dentistry, a member of DDS, the Digital Dentistry Society, as well as one of the newest lecturers in RAA, the Restorative and Aesthetic Academy of South Africa.
He enjoys a few other interests and careers alongside dentistry. He is also a rapper and musician, known as LEXLEO, as well as a Custom jeweller, having created many of our celebrities’ custom diamond pieces as well as pioneering Diamond and gold grillz in South Africa.
