When it comes to improving your smile, it is not as simple as placing veneers or crowns on teeth so that appear whiter and brighter than your existing teeth.
Creating an ideal smile may require orthodontics, orthognathic surgery, periodontal surgery, cosmetic dentistry, oral surgery, or plastic surgery.
Champsaur Dental Clinic offer an evaluation service to plan the best route to a perfect smile. In this article we will provide a summary of the factors and principles that we will consider when planning an overall enhancement of your smile.
Patients Desires and Expectations
When we meet with you, we will firstly discuss the main problems that you have with your smile, and be honest in our appraisal on whether we can achieve your desired result.
We will make a review of your medical and dental history and undertake a comprehensive dental examination including x-rays and digital photos with a macro lens which will include:
• Full face photos
• Lip at rest photos
• Anterior and lateral photos
• Photo of you smiling naturally, dynamically as well as an exaggerated smile
• Bite registration
All of this information is vital for the dentists at Champsaur Dental Clinic to properly evaluate and review the treatment options and discuss the expected outcomes with you so that you can make an informed decision about choice of treatment.
What is taken into account in the Evaluation for smile design in Panama?
Facial Aesthetics
An overall assessment of the smile must start from an outside-in approach, so there has to be an evaluation of your overall facial features, including facial proportions and evaluation of the facial aesthetics in the vertical and horizontal planes.
Upper Lip Length, Lip Position, Mobility and Symmetry
The lips play an important role as they create the boundaries of the smile and play an important role in the complete smile design. Overall lip mobility is simply the movement of the lips at rest to the farthest position that occurs when the patient smiles spontaneously and is related to the upper lip length.
Tooth Display
The amount of tooth that is displayed at rest is greater in females than males by an average of 1.5mm and as patients age, they will display less of their front teeth. This is a result of changes in soft tissues to the skeletal base.
Midline
The position of the teeth, and the dental midline regarding the facial midline and surrounding tissue is another area that must be assessed during the smile evaluation.
Current Tooth Position
We will investigate if your teeth are tipped or bodily positioned in relation to the adjacent tooth or teeth.
If so, it will require repositioning of the tooth with the assistance of orthodontics, orthognathic surgery, periodontal surgery or by a combination or procedures.
Facial-Lingual Position
Teeth that are proclined or retroclined can have a direct impact on the restoration and/or the final desired result and must also be considered.
Mesial-Distal Position
The long axis of the teeth should be parallel between the two centrals as a variation in the inclination of the teeth in a mesial/distal aspect is a factor that can quickly be visually and can be interpreted as anaesthetic.
Tooth Proportions and Proper Length to Width Rations
Overall tooth proportions are another key and critically important assessment that must be made by the clinician during the smile evaluation to assess length to width ratios.
Teeth Colour
The final step is to decide which colour the teeth should by for your ideal smile. If possible, the shade should be natural but aesthetically enhancing.
• Photo of you smiling naturally, dynamically as well as an exaggerated smile
• Bite registration
All of this information is vital for the dentists at Champsaur Dental Clinic to properly evaluate and review the treatment options and discuss the expected outcomes with you so that you can make an informed decision about choice of treatment.
What is taken into account in the Evaluation for smile design in Panama?
Facial Aesthetics
An overall assessment of the smile must start from an outside-in approach, so there has to be an evaluation of your overall facial features, including facial proportions and evaluation of the facial aesthetics in the vertical and horizontal planes.
Upper Lip Length, Lip Position, Mobility and Symmetry
The lips play an important role as they create the boundaries of the smile and play an important role in the complete smile design. Overall lip mobility is simply the movement of the lips at rest to the farthest position that occurs when the patient smiles spontaneously and is related to the upper lip length.
Tooth Display
The amount of tooth that is displayed at rest is greater in females than males by an average of 1.5mm and as patients age, they will display less of their front teeth. This is a result of changes in soft tissues to the skeletal base.
Midline
The position of the teeth, and the dental midline regarding the facial midline and surrounding tissue is another area that must be assessed during the smile evaluation.
Current Tooth Position
We will investigate if your teeth are tipped or bodily positioned in relation to the adjacent tooth or teeth.
If so, it will require repositioning of the tooth with the assistance of orthodontics, orthognathic surgery, periodontal surgery or by a combination or procedures.
Facial-Lingual Position
Teeth that are proclined or retroclined can have a direct impact on the restoration and/or the final desired result and must also be considered.
Mesial-Distal Position
The long axis of the teeth should be parallel between the two centrals as a variation in the inclination of the teeth in a mesial/distal aspect is a factor that can quickly be visually and can be interpreted as anaesthetic.
Tooth Proportions and Proper Length to Width Rations
Overall tooth proportions are another key and critically important assessment that must be made by the clinician during the smile evaluation to assess length to width ratios.
Teeth Colour
The final step is to decide which colour the teeth should by for your ideal smile. If possible, the shade should be natural but aesthetically enhancing.
In our clinic we also have CEREC digital technology that by means of a scan of the teeth by means of a camera, an approximation can be made of how the smile design can be virtually thanks to the software.
Start your Evaluation for smile design in Panama today, contact us.