Dr. Marina Antoniuk

What a first visit with Dr. Marina Antoniuk covers for a damaged tooth

Patients usually come to Dr. Marina Antoniuk with one tooth that worries them: broken, painful, already root-treated, or under an old crown. The first visit answers one question before any other: can this tooth be kept, and is keeping it worth it?

• What is checked. How much sound tooth is left above and below the gum, the root and bone on an X-ray, any crack, and the bite the tooth has to carry (cracked tooth).
• The options side by side. A filling, a root canal and crown, retreatment of an old root canal, or extraction followed by an implant or bridge, with what each involves in visits, cost and maintenance (root canal vs implant).
• The restoration. If the tooth is kept, the crown that protects it is made by Creative Art Dental Lab in the same building, so fit and shade can be checked with the ceramist (dental crowns).

You leave with a diagnosis and a written plan. Bring previous X-rays and notes on earlier treatment of the tooth, because they often change the advice.

Treatments Dr. Marina Antoniuk focuses on

Dr. Marina Antoniuk's work is restorative: treating the inside of a tooth when needed, then rebuilding it so that it lasts and looks natural.

• Root canal treatment under the microscope. First treatments, usually in one or two visits, with magnification to find and clean fine canals (root canal treatment).
• Root canal retreatment. For an older root canal that has failed, often because of a missed canal, leakage or new decay (root canal retreatment).
• Crowns. Zirconia or E.max crowns for teeth weakened by large fillings, fractures or root canal treatment (zirconia crowns).
• Veneers. Porcelain veneers where the tooth is sound and the concern is colour or shape; veneers start from AED 1,250 per tooth (veneers).

Her qualification, a Doctor of Dental Medicine from O.O. Bogomolets National Medical University, and her Dubai Health Authority licence ID are listed on this page.

About Dr. Marina Antoniuk: 17 years of clinical experience

Dr. Marina Antoniuk is a dentist at Creative Arts Dental & Aesthetics in Jumeirah, Dubai, with 17 years of clinical experience. Her field is aesthetic and functional rehabilitation: comprehensive treatment planning, full-mouth rehabilitation, ceramic veneers and crowns, and complex restorative work.

Her starting point is that modern dentistry is not about treating individual teeth one by one, but about a smile that is harmonious, functions well and looks natural on that particular person. What she brings is clinical thinking across the whole mouth, turned into a plan that is structured and easy to follow, including in multidisciplinary cases.

From the first planning visit, she makes sure you understand four things:

• Your current situation: the diagnosis for each tooth and for the bite as a whole.
• The goal: the aesthetic and functional result you have agreed on.
• Each stage: what is done, in what order, and why that order.
• The pathway: which stages depend on earlier ones, and who on the team carries out each.

In her words: "First comes diagnosis and treatment planning. Then, carefully sequenced treatment. And only after that — the final result." You can see how this works in her 20 published cases.

Aesthetic and functional rehabilitation

Aesthetic and functional rehabilitation means restoring how the teeth look and how they work in the same plan. Shape, colour and proportion decide the appearance; how the teeth meet, how they guide the jaw when you chew and how much load they carry decide whether the result lasts. A veneer that looks right but sits in the wrong bite can chip; a bite corrected without regard to the face can look wrong.

Dr. Marina weighs five things together: facial proportions, tooth position, smile aesthetics, function, and long-term stability. In practice that means:

• A design you see first. The new shape is planned digitally and tried in your mouth as a mock-up before any tooth is prepared (digital smile design).
• Orthodontics and prosthetics planned together. Moving a tooth first with the specialist orthodontists can mean much less preparation for a veneer or crown later. The aim is not only straight teeth but a smile that suits the face.
• The lab in the same building. The ceramist at Creative Art Dental Lab can see your teeth in person when matching shade and translucency (the lab).

For changes that are mainly aesthetic, see the smile makeover page.

Full-mouth rehabilitation and complex restorative cases

A full-mouth rehabilitation rebuilds the appearance, the occlusion (how the teeth meet) and the function of the whole chewing system. It is usually considered when several problems overlap: teeth worn short by grinding or erosion, many old crowns and fillings failing at once, missing teeth with neighbours drifting into the gaps, or a bite that has lost height.

Dr. Marina's role is diagnostics, strategic planning and coordinating the stages. The order typically runs like this:

• Records: examination, X-rays, a CBCT 3D scan where roots or bone are in question, scans, photographs and functional diagnostics of the bite and joints.
• Design and test: the new shape and bite are tried first in provisional restorations.
• Coordinated stages: orthodontics with the specialist orthodontists, implant surgery with Dr. Firas Osman, then the final veneers and crowns.

One case she published on Instagram she described as "Total dental rehabilitation. Veneers, crowns, crowns on implants and a very harmonious smile as a result." In a comment on that post, the dental company Envista wrote: "Outstanding result! A full-mouth rehabilitation that achieves both function and a beautifully harmonious smile."

More: full mouth rehabilitation, worn teeth and replacing old crowns.

Bite, TMJ and gnathology: axiography and condylography at Creative Arts

Gnathology is the part of dentistry that looks at how the teeth, the jaw joints (TMJ), the chewing muscles and the bite work together. Dr. Marina plans restorations with all four in mind, because new crowns or veneers change how the teeth meet.

At Creative Arts, functional diagnostics include two recordings:

• Axiography records how the jaw joint moves as you open, close, push the jaw forward and move it to each side.
• Condylography records the path of the condyle, the rounded end of the lower jaw that sits in the joint, as it glides during those movements.

With a muscle, joint and bite examination, they show whether the joints move smoothly and evenly, and give the lab values for setting up the articulator, so models of your teeth move as your jaw does.

They matter most before full-mouth work, before the bite height is changed, before a set of veneers that alters the guidance of the front teeth, and when there is heavy wear, repeatedly chipped restorations or clicking. Not every case needs them; the examination decides.

Jaw pain or painful clicking is first assessed by Dr. Valeriia Kozachenko, specialist orthodontist, in the TMJ assessment; Dr. Marina plans the restorations around those findings, coordinated with orthodontics. See also teeth grinding.

Saving badly damaged teeth: from no-prep veneers to complex restorations

Keeping your own teeth whenever it is clinically appropriate is one of the principles Dr. Marina works by. The range runs from veneers that need little or no preparation to rebuilding teeth that other dentists might extract.

• Minimal preparation. Where the tooth allows, a no-prep or ultra-thin veneer keeps the enamel. Writing about one of her own veneer cases, she noted that all that was removed were the chips on the biting edge, and that 98% of the tooth's own tissue stayed in place. That figure describes that case only.
• Badly broken teeth. Under a molar broken down to the gum she posted: "I professionally rebuild complex teeth." Rebuilding such a tooth takes precision, experience and, at times, unconventional clinical thinking.
• Inside the tooth first. She works with a dental microscope and CBCT 3D scans, so root canal work and the restoration are planned as one job (root canal treatment).

Preservation is a goal, not a promise. A vertical root fracture or too little bone support usually means the tooth is better replaced, and the plan then moves to dental implants with the surgeon.

Consultation in Russian or English

Dr. Marina Antoniuk consults in Russian, Ukrainian and English, so the diagnosis, every stage of the plan, the consent and the costs can be explained in the language you are most comfortable with. Dr. Firas Osman, the clinic's Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon, also speaks Russian, so implant or surgical stages can be discussed in Russian too.

Before the visit, on WhatsApp. Write to +971 56 677 7537 in Russian or English and say you would like to see Dr. Marina. Send:

• a smiling photo in daylight, plus close-ups of your teeth from the front and both sides;
• any X-rays, CBCT scans or treatment plans from other clinics;
• a few words on what bothers you and what you would like to change.

Photos help prepare the consultation; the diagnosis itself is made at the examination in Jumeirah.

Credentials you can check. Doctor of Dental Medicine, O.O. Bogomolets National Medical University, Ukraine. DHA licence 14454461, listed on the DHA Sheryan register under the name Maryna Antoniuk. She has trained with internationally recognised experts in Europe, the United States and Russia.

She shares her clinical work on Instagram. On this site: her published cases and the page for patients looking for a Russian-speaking dentist in Dubai.

Training and courses: what Dr. Marina Antoniuk has studied

Dr. Marina's dental degree is a Doctor of Dental Medicine from O.O. Bogomolets National Medical University in Ukraine. Over her career she has kept studying with internationally recognised experts in Europe, the United States and Russia. Courses she has attended include:

• February 2025, Dubai: "Esthetics & Integrating Occlusal Principles into Smile Design", a course by Prof. Marcelo Calamita of the University of São Paulo, organised by Dentistry Education. It connects smile design with the bite, which is the core of her smile design work.
• 2019: "Prosthesis and Esthetics Dentistry, Full Immersion", a full-immersion course by Prof. Massironi with Master Educational Group. Prosthetic and aesthetic work, such as crowns and veneers, is the centre of her practice.
• 30 July 2020: a certificate of participation in an international study evaluating the efficacy and safety of Diagnocat AI software in CBCT analysis.

In the clinic she works with a dental microscope and reviews CBCT 3D scans when planning, which matters for root canal work and for deciding whether a damaged tooth can be kept (root canal treatment).

Her licence can be checked on the DHA Sheryan register: ID 14454461, registered as Maryna Antoniuk.