Aesthetic Dentistry and Digital Smile Design
The easiest and most effective way to impress someone is with a beautiful smile. Being able to smile beautifully increases self-confidence. A person with an aesthetic smile can have a more vibrant, athletic and attractive appearance. Wouldn't you like to smile with brighter, whiter teeth? Thanks to the integration of dentistry with the digital world, you can quickly achieve perfect teeth and a perfect smile by choosing the most suitable dental designs and models. You can smile like Hollywood stars with a smile design made just for you.
Smile design aims to achieve an ideal and personalised smile that harmonises with the individual's facial features and dental structure. It involves the collaboration of dentistry, art and technology to design a smile that incorporates the individual's entire facial structure, including the teeth. Smile design should be a multidisciplinary approach. Each detail should be addressed individually to meet the individual's expectations.
There are many important factors in smile design, including the person's facial shape, smile symmetry, teeth alignment, colour, lips and gums, gender, age, social status, hair length, the dentist's experience and the person's preferences. It is important to consider the individual's wishes for a successful design, but it is also crucial to consider the dentist's experience. The aim is to find common ground between the patient and the dentist. Smile design, also known as smile aesthetics, aims to create the individual's ideal smile structure in a healthy and natural way.
Ideal and aesthetic smile design is based on medical principles. Men's facial features tend to be sharper and more prominent, while women's facial features tend to be softer. Therefore, smile design and aesthetics are performed accordingly. Before the procedure begins, photographs are taken of the teeth in different smile positions. Measurements are then taken using computerised intraoral scanners. The person's oral structure is carefully examined. The main purpose of this examination is to determine what problems are present in the person's smile. After identifying the positive and negative aspects of the appearance when the person smiles from different angles, the design and planning process begins. The dental images, which are converted into three-dimensional form using the CEREC® dental CAD-CAM micro-camera, can be virtually modified to include reshaping, additions, contour corrections and more, tailored to the individual's facial and oral structure.
In addition, images of the finished teeth are superimposed on the person's actual facial image, allowing the dentist and patient to see the new teeth on the person's face before they are completed. A personalised smile design is then created based on the measurements taken using computerised intraoral scanners. The newly fabricated teeth are bonded on the same day. Within the framework of aesthetic dentistry, various procedures can be performed, such as laminate veneers, zirconium veneers, Empress full porcelain veneers, aesthetic fillings (composite fillings), porcelain fillings, teeth whitening, gum aesthetics (pink aesthetics), orthodontic treatments and more.