smile designing

Smile design is a cosmetic dental procedure that corrects teeth imperfections and restores your dental health and appearance. It involves a customized treatment and long-lasting results for a straighter, whiter, and natural-looking smile. Our teeth wear down, chip, or discolor over time. However, smile design gives you a smile you’ll love for life. It can do wonders to fully restore your dental health and appearance regardless of the original state of your existing teeth. Age decreases our smile due to wear, chipping and discoloration. This can happen gradually and can be very embarrassing. Smile designing can get you smiling again and revitalize or enhance your original smile.

How long does smile design take?

Smile design could take three weeks to several months to complete. It depends on your goals and any dental problems we need to address first.

If your dream smile requires dental implants, this can increase your timeline to around six months to one year for optimal healing.

Tooth components of smile designing

Dental midline 

The midline refers to the vertical contact interface between two maxillary centrals. It should be perpendicular to the incisal plane and parallel to the midline of the face. Minor discrepancies between facial and dental midlines are acceptable and, in many instances, not noticeable. However, a canted midline would be more obvious, and therefore, less acceptable. The maximum allowed discrepancy can be 2 mm and sometimes greater than 2 mm discrepancy is esthetically acceptable so long as the dental midline is perpendicular to the interpupillary line. Various anatomical landmarks such as midline of the nose, forehead, chin, philtrum, interpupillary plane can be used as guides to the midline assessment.

The philtrum of the lip is one of the most accurate of these anatomical guide posts. It is always in the center of the face except in surgical, accident or cleft cases. The center of the philtrum is the center of the cupids bow and it should match the papilla between the centrals. If these two structures match and the midline is incorrect, then the problem is usually incisal inclination. If the papilla and philturm do not match, then the problem is a true midline deviation. A midline that does not bisect the papilla is more noticeable than the one that does not bisect the philturm.

BENEFITS OF SMILE DESIGN

Age decreases our smile due to wear, chipping and discoloration. This can happen gradually and can be very embarrassing. Smile designing can get you smiling again and revitalize or enhance your original smile

Smile Makeover

A smile makeover is a process of improving the appearance of the smile through one or more cosmetic dentistry procedures, such as:
Dental veneers
Composite bonding
Tooth implants
Teeth whitening

Some of the components taken into consideration include your facial appearance, skin tone, hair color, teeth (color, width, length, shape and tooth display), gum tissue and lips. Smile makeovers are performed for many reasons and customized according to your unique considerations

What Are the Advantages of a Smile Design?

Smile design will have the following advantages, they are:
Reduction in pigmented gums.
Reduction in gingival bleeding.
A tooth that is missing or a decade can be corrected through this dental procedure.
Bleaching of the discolored tooth will give a young appearance to the patient.
If any of your anterior teeth are missing, it will give an unpleasant appearance to the patient. It is possible to overcome this problem by placing a single tooth implant.
If there are dental fillings in your teeth that are looking unpleasant, then you can correct it with a filling that is similar to your teeth color.