Studio Odontoiatrico Vigorelli

Small studio, walnut cabinets and brass, more like somebody's office than a clinic. Fabric dividers instead of the usual white plastic. My daughter was not frightened for once.

Four veneers, upper front. Dott. Vigorelli talked me down from eight, said the ones further back did not need touching and it would end up looking wrong. A dentist who sells you less than you came in asking for.

Parking on de Castillia is actually possible, unlike the centre. Bosco Verticale is two streets away if you want a walk afterwards.

Martina took twenty years of coffee off my teeth in one session and was honest that it comes back if I do not change something.

I come down from Bellinzona twice a year for the hygiene now and it still costs me less than the same hour at home, fuel and motorway vignette counted in. The recall message arrives at six months on the dot. Luca remembers my name, which after four visits is a low bar but plenty of places fail it.

No complaint about the work, two crowns, both good, both on schedule. Four stars because they do no implants and no surgery here at all, so when it turned out I needed an extraction first I had to arrange that separately at home. Worth knowing before you plan the trip down.