Cosmetic Dentistry is an area formed in recent years. The reason behind this type of dentistry is the patients who visit dentist not only for medical requirements but also want a brilliant smile. In the past, this treatments are only chosen by celebrities or rich people but today almost every level of the society look for solutions for a better smile. Unfortunately, all the people are not lucky enough to have a perfect smile. Some of us have brown colored or uneven size of teeth. Many of these problems are not related with our health but affect our look and social position. In some cases, it may even affect our psychology.
Cosmetic dentistry, combines medical treatments with art so it promises to give you the unique and beautiful smile of yourself. The aim is to create a healthy smile that combines your personal wishes and natural look.There are several options to eliminate the problems in the structure or look of your teeth. So good communication with your dentist is essential to find the best way to achieve your personal confidence and requirements.
In brief description, smile designing is to construct a personal prosthesis which is suitable to your mounth and facial structure as well as personal requirements. The first step of the treatment is patient's month and face analysis. Following to analysis, your dentist combines technical conditions with patient's wishes and prepares a unique design. With the help of technology, this new design can be applied virtually to the patient's face so the results can be observed without starting the treatment. Also patient's talking and masticatory functions are another important issue in this evaluation. The purpose of this designing process is to make a private planning for each patient and to see the results before the treatment.
However the smile designing is personal, several standard ratios must be used. The most important ratio is Golden Ratio or Da Vinci Rate. Golden ratio gives the best possible relation between the teeth between each other and face. Golden ratio lets us to create ideal form of the face and teeth.
Communication between patient-dentist and dentist-dental technician is very important in cosmetic dentistry. Aesthetic needs usually described with feelings or sampling with other people's look. So usually all descriptions are subjective. This situation makes understanding between the parties very important. Miscommunication may cause big disappointments if the patient feels the new smile is not like as imagined before. Dentist must be very careful in this communication process and guide the patient to describe his/her feeling. Anther job of the dentist is to explain the possible results to the patient in correct way to keep expectations under control.
In cosmetic dentistry, there are several methods like aesthetic fillers, metal-free zirconium crowns, empress crowns, laminate crowns, teeth whitening procedures etc. All these methods are targeting to give patients a unique smile to improve personal look of the patients.
With development of aesthetic and restorative materials in many shapes and colors, cosmetic dentistry becomes a routine application and most problems are solved pretty easily.
