SMILE DESIGN
Smile design is the achievement of an ideal smile tailored to the face by applying dentistry and art together. Teeth are arranged in harmony with one another and the soft tissues surrounding them. The basic elements of a beautiful smile are the teeth, and therefore having comprehensive knowledge about tooth shapes and anatomical features forms the foundation of all treatments. In order to gain more insight into how a well-designed smile should be, the inner and outer edges of the facial features should be examined.
Facial features, gender, age, smile symmetry, the arrangement and color of the teeth, lips, and gums are the factors that determine an aesthetic smile expression. In smile design, the shape of the teeth is determined by taking all these factors into consideration.
With smile design, it is possible to look younger. In every respect, you can achieve much healthier, sparkling teeth.
In aesthetic dentistry, the aim is to create teeth that suit the person's face naturally and make the person look younger, more dynamic, and successful. Aesthetic teeth do not have to be very white and perfectly straight; aesthetic means natural. The aim of the dentist who creates aesthetic teeth is to imitate nature. There are important factors that the dentist must consider when designing a smile. Some of these factors are criteria such as the person's age, gender, skin tone, lip shape, eye color, and posture.
The smile is designed according to the person's style. Attractive smile, intellectual smile, and sporty smile are some of them.
HOLLYWOOD SMILE
In earlier periods, dental treatments focused primarily on repairing damage caused by cavities, tooth extractions due to cavities and gum disease, and placing removable prostheses in place of missing teeth. Only the very rich or Hollywood stars and famous people who earned their living thanks to their smiles took serious steps to improve their smiles. Today, as people have become more conscious about their appearance, dental aesthetics have become very popular. Speech is affected by the direction of the tooth and being out of line.
First impressions are very critical and always leave a lasting effect. The most successful people of today take this fact very seriously. They spend time on their care, from their faces to their hair, nails, makeup, and clothes, and always check themselves in the mirror before going out. The first thing we do when meeting people is smile, and this is the most sincere gesture that can be made easily without words through our body language.
Beautiful photographs depend largely on the beauty of one's teeth. Smiling with healthy and beautiful teeth is a trait that everyone can achieve and is a person's weapon of appeal in society. The cost is the same, and since we have our own social circle, it is worth the effort to have our teeth corrected. The great enthusiasm associated with seeking aesthetic treatment for teeth is essentially to improve their health, and it is the most important byproduct of the procedures performed. The cost may be limited to improving dental health, and for those blessed people who have taken good care of their teeth since birth, to having a perfect smile.
A perfect smile increases your self-confidence and can earn you millions of dollars. People who can smile easily are generally more impressive and successful in their personal, social, and professional lives. They always have enough confidence to impress people. At the same time, they know how to attract more attention in all their social lives and business meetings. Self-confidence itself is attractive. Thinking well of ourselves in life is everything. On the contrary, feeling inadequate or insecure is mentally draining. It is nice to have something about your face that we can proudly show.
Having perfect teeth increases a person's self-confidence and, if the feeling of being perfect encourages more laughing and smiling, it also adds joy to life.
HOW IS IT DONE?
It is the process of bonding a specially prepared porcelain veneer, as thin as a fingernail and made in the desired color, size, and shape, to the front surface of the tooth. These veneers made of porcelain are on average 0,7mm thick and have light transmittance. They are prepared and placed on an existing tooth with perfect fit and precision. For teeth to be treated with porcelain laminate, a small amount of abrasion is required; the extent of this abrasion is determined proportionally to the tooth's shape, color, and position.
Seeing the shape of the teeth beforehand by preparing wax teeth:
After the measurements of the prepared teeth are taken, the teeth are specially prepared in the laboratory in the form determined by the dentist and the patient using wax. These teeth are tried one by one in the patient's mouth and shown how they look; this process is called a trial. After the wax teeth prepared for the trial have the joint approval of the patient and the dentist, the porcelain version of the approved form is made exactly the same. Thanks to this method, any changes desired by the patient or the dentist can be made on the wax, and the porcelain reaches its desired form, achieving the perfect smile. As a result, the patient knows what kind of appearance they will have after this treatment.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
It is used to close gaps in the front teeth and to treat fractures caused by impact. It is also applied in cases where teeth are extremely dark in color and teeth whitening is not sufficient, as well as in situations where porcelain covering is needed due to cavities or crowding. Although it can be applied to everyone, it is not used in cases where there is severe gum damage resulting from jaw disorders, nail-biting, pen-chewing, and similar habits. WAYS TO TEST YOUR SMILE
1- Trial Smile: Based on the impression taken from the existing teeth in the mouth, your dentist creates a smile design from a plastic-based material that fits over your own teeth. This work allows you to see and feel, in three dimensions, to a significant extent how your teeth will look. You can walk around for a while with these temporary teeth and more easily understand what you expect from your teeth and what your surroundings think.
2- Computerized aesthetic imaging: In this method, your dentist transfers photographs of your face and teeth from different angles to the computer and makes some measurements. With special software, a new smile can be designed on these images. This is an effective method for making small changes such as closing tooth gaps and extending tooth length, but because it is two-dimensional, it has misleading aspects when making major changes. The image a person likes on the computer may feel different when applied in the mouth, so three-dimensional methods applied in the mouth are more effective.
3- Direct composite applications: Composite materials are tooth-colored materials used by dentists when filling teeth. The dentist shapes the new smile in the patient's mouth by making the necessary adjustments with this material, thus giving the person the chance to experience their new smile in three dimensions.
4- Direct wax mock-up applications in the mouth: The dentist designs the smile in the person's mouth using a wax-based, tooth-like special material on a mold obtained from the impression taken from the existing teeth. The waxes are applied to the teeth one by one, and the patient and dentist discuss their mutual expectations. Since aesthetics is a relative concept, the wax mock-up method is an effective method. It brings together the patient's wishes and the dentist's wishes under a common denominator. As a result of changes in length, shape, protrusion, and width made on the wax, people can have the smile design they have long wanted.
Doka Klinik Dental Team
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