SMILE MAKEOVER
What is Smile Designing?
A smile designing is a dental procedure that artistically creates straighter, whiter teeth and a beautiful natural-looking smile.
Key Principles For Smile designing
- Tooth Texture and Characterisation
Studies show females have smaller teeth with rounded incisal edges, whereas males tend to have square-shaped, larger teeth compared to females.
Our Artistic dentist creates a smile accordingly for men and women.
- Hue,Chroma,Value,Translucency
It is crucial to select the right shade of teeth while designing a smile that matches the shade of existing natural teeth.
- Hue is the synonym used for the color/shade of the tooth.
- Chroma refers to the degree of intensity or saturation of teeth’ color.
- Value is the relative lightness (brightness) or darkness of the hue.
- Translucency is the three-dimensional representation of value.
- Golden proportion
The two front teeth form a Golden Ratio in relation to their height and width, i.e., their width should be about 70 percent of their height.
Designing a smile within Golden proportion is a crucial part of smile designing, and our cosmetic dentist did wonders for hundreds of patients who opted for smile designing.
What are the procedures under smile designing/smile makeover?
Smile makeover is a procedure performed to improve one’s smile by any of the following cosmetic dental procedures:
- Dental Veneers/Laminates/Lumineers
Dental veneers are thin shells that bonded over existing teeth, which help in smile makeover by giving the teeth a new shape, size, and color.
The most common problems these cosmetic veneers can correct are chipped teeth, cracked and discolored teeth, misaligned teeth, and gaps between teeth.
Dental Veneers preserve most of the tooth structure as reducing only 0.5 mm of enamel is enough for bonding Dental Veneers.
- Dental Crowns
Dental Crowns are used if you have severely worn down teeth or unnatural-looking old crowns, yellow and discolored teeth, or for significant changes in your teeth alignment.
Zirconia crowns are predominantly used to create a natural-looking smile in a Smile makeover.
- Dental Implants
Gaps between teeth caused by missing tooth, especially in the front tooth region, can make an individual smile consciously.
Nowadays, Dental Implants are commonly used to replace single or multiple missing teeth or even to replace all your teeth.
- Teeth Whitening
Teeth discoloration can happen for many reasons, most commonly smoking/tobacco, high consumption of tea/coffee, certain beverages, trauma, and aging.
At Focus Dental Care, we use Philips Zoom for teeth whitening, which lightens the shade of teeth lighter up to 4-6 shades.
- Composite bonding
Tooth-colored composite material is directly bonded to the teeth to replace old, discolored fillings, fill in cracks, or repair chipped teeth.
In some cases, this composite material is also used to fill in gaps or create a more aesthetic shape and contour of the tooth.
- Invisible Aligners
Many people complain of maligned, crooked teeth but don’t want to wear traditional braces due to aesthetic reasons.
With all the advancements in cosmetic dentistry, teeth alignment invisible aligners have become very common.
An invisible aligner is a clear plastic aligner made up of a unique thermoplastic material that gradually moves the teeth in the desired position to restore the alignment.
Teeth alignment with invisible aligner helps not only in smile makeover but also helps to improve the function of the teeth.
- Gummy smile correction/Gum Contouring
Often, patients have excess gum growth over the teeth, so gums tend to show out when they smile, known as a gummy smile. At times, the level of the gums is asymmetrical; this may also hamper one’s smile.
At Focus Dental Care, we use the latest laser technology for gum recontouring, so there is minimum discomfort, no bleeding, and faster healing.
What are the indications for smile designing?
- Crooked teeth
Crooked teeth can be aligned properly and can be straightened using invisible aligners. For quicker results, our dentist may suggest porcelain veneers.
- Cracked, Chipped, or Worn teeth
Depending upon the extent of damage, teeth can be repaired using dental crowns, dental veneers.
- Stained / Discoloured teeth
Stained or discolored teeth affect the aesthetics and confidence of an individual; this can be treated with Oral prophylaxis or Teeth whitening.
- Gaps between teeth and malalignment
Apart from being unsightly, the gaps between teeth can also lead to functional problems. This can be fixed using dental veneers, Composite resin bonding techniques, and invisible braces.
- Missing teeth
Missing teeth, especially in the smile-line, can severely affect the smile of an individual. The missing spaces in the dental arches can be corrected using dental implants or bridges.
- Tooth texture and characterization
Our dentist may recommend characterizing the teeth with dental veneers or crowns to make the teeth look more feminine or masculine.