Di Gaetano Calesini
Finding serious dental care when you live abroad is rarely straightforward. Finding it in Rome — where most practices cater to resident Italians, language barriers are real, and continuity of care across multiple visits can feel like a negotiation — is harder still. For a complex case, that has already gone through treatment and arrived somewhere unsatisfactory, it can feel close to impossible.
Studio Calesini exists for this exact situation. Not as a general practice, not as a clinic that happens to speak English, but as a private clinical advisory dedicated since 1979 to the management of complex aesthetic and functional rehabilitations in Rome, with a significant share of its patients coming from international backgrounds.
An Advisory Before a Treatment Plan
The starting point at Studio Calesini is not a cleaning, a scan, or an estimate. It’s an in-depth clinical advisory: a structured analysis of your current situation, your dental history, and the gap between where you are and where a durable, coherent outcome is realistically achievable.
This matters especially for patients who have had prior treatment in Rome, in their home country, or across multiple countries and are dealing with results that have proven unstable, aesthetically unacceptable, or functionally compromised. The advisory phase reconstructs what happened, identifies the underlying inconsistencies, and establishes whether the conditions for a controlled rehabilitation exist.
Not every case meets those conditions. A significant number of patients evaluated at the practice are not accepted for treatment. This is not a formality: it’s the foundation of the model.
Via della Croce 77 in Rome, Since 1979.
The practice is located at Via della Croce 77, in the Tridente district of central Rome, just a few steps from Piazza di Spagna, and in one of the city’s most historically and architecturally coherent neighborhoods. For patients traveling to Rome specifically for treatment, or scheduling appointments around extended stays, the location is both practically convenient and, in its way, fitting: a setting that takes its context seriously.
The practice has been active since 1979. That continuity is not incidental. In complex rehabilitation, the institutional memory of a practice (its accumulated case history, its established relationships with specialist collaborators, its understanding of how outcomes hold over years) is part of what makes a decision-making model reliable. It cannot be replicated quickly.
One Clinical Director. A Coordinated Specialist Framework.
When treatment is indicated, it is conducted under a single clinical direction. Specialist competencies in prosthodontics, implantology, periodontics, endodontics, and aesthetics are integrated in a binding, sequential framework. There are no isolated interventions, no handoffs between disconnected practitioners. Every decision is subordinate to the coherence of the overall treatment plan and its capacity to hold over time.
For international patients, this structure has a particular value: a single point of clinical accountability, clear communication at every stage, and an organizational precision that makes treatment feasible even for those dividing their time between Rome and another city or country.
Academic Rigor, Applied in Private Practice
Dr. Gaetano Calesini — the practice’s clinical director and founder — has pursued a parallel academic career throughout his professional life. He currently directs the postgraduate Master’s program in Prosthodontics at the University Campus Bio-Medico di Roma and serves on the Faculty Advisory Board of its School of Dentistry. He holds the presidency of ASSO, the association representing Italy’s scientific dental societies, for the 2026–2027 mandate.
For patients from countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, and Northern Europe, where academic affiliation and specialist credentials are legible markers of clinical seriousness, this profile is directly interpretable. It signals a practice shaped by research, peer engagement, and a systematic approach to complex problems, not only by years behind a desk.
Built for Patients Who Cannot Afford Approximation
A substantial part of the practice’s patient base comes from international contexts: expatriates residing in Rome, executives and professionals on extended assignment, individuals relocating to Italy who arrive with prior dental work that requires continuation or correction. In some cases, patients travel specifically to Rome for treatment unavailable or unaffordable at equivalent clinical standards in their home country.
What they share is a low tolerance for approximation. The cases are complex, the prior history is often complicated, and the margin for further error has narrowed to a point where the question is not “who can treat me” but “who can be trusted with this”.
Access to the practice is selective. The number of active cases is intentionally limited. The reception experience reflects this: discretion, organizational continuity, and a level of precision that is not a service feature but a clinical necessity.
