The celebrated Sz.-Nagy and Foias and Ando theorems state that a single contraction, or a pair of commuting contractions, acting on a Hilbert space always possesses isometric dilation and subsequently satisfies the von Neumann inequality for polynomials in C[z] or C[z 1 , z 2 ], respectively. However, in general, neither the existence of isometric dilation nor the von Neumann inequality holds for n-tuples, n ≥ 3, of commuting contractions. The goal of this paper is to provide a taste of isometric dilations, von Neumann inequality and a refined version of von Neumann inequality for a large class of n-tuples, n ≥ 3, of commuting contractions.Statement 1 (On isometric dilations): Let T ∈ T n (H). Then there exist a Hilbert space K(⊇ H) and an n-tuple of commuting isometries V ∈ T n (K) such that T dilates to V . Now any n-tuple of commuting isometries V ∈ T n (K) can be extended to an n-tuple of commuting unitaries, that is, there exist a Hilbert space L containing K and an n-tuple of commuting unitary operators U ∈ T n (L) which extends V [24]. Therefore, the celebrated von Neumann inequality is an immediate consequence of Statement 1 (cf. [24]):