Smile Design
Smile design is the application of dentistry and art together to provide a smile that is unique to the face. First of all, a healthy smile plan is made with your personal wishes and the suggestions of your doctor. Smile design is planned according to your age, gender, face shape, profession and character. The most important point of smile design is that your smile is restructured by preserving your health and naturalness. When starting the smile design, it is first determined which geometric shape your facial line fits.
How Many Types of Smile Expressions Are There?
In general, smile expressions are divided into three. The first is the attractive smile, the second is the intellectual smile and the third is the sporty smile. For an attractive smile, the front teeth should be noticeably longer than the side teeth. Designing your front teeth in this way gives you a young, dynamic and attractive smile. The intellectual smile requires teeth lined up in a straight line. This smile gives your face a mature and knowledgeable expression. For a sporty smile, your central incisors should be slightly longer than the side incisors. This smile will give you a sincere, unusual and warm expression.
What is aimed with Smile Design?
With smile design, it is aimed to eliminate tooth discoloration, single or several teeth in different alignment or position from each other, to eliminate the gaps caused by missing teeth, to have the gums in the alignment they should be, to eliminate the disproportion of the amount of visible teeth and gums, to prevent incompatible tooth lengths on the lips, to prevent the old appearance caused by missing teeth due to the collapse in the face and lips. Since all these problems will cause deterioration in the aesthetic appearance of the patient, smile design aims to eliminate all of them.
Which Treatments Are Performed in Smile Design?
Smile design is determined according to the position and condition of the tooth. Treatments such as tooth lengthening, tooth shortening, tooth shape correction, thinning and thickening according to the position of the tooth, correction of gum gaps, smoothing the tooth surface layer and corner design, i.e. squaring, tapering, rounding, filing are performed.
