Smile Design (Hollywood Smile)

Smile design is the most important part in aesthetic dentistry. A smile is the most obvious indicator of youth and beauty on the face. Everyone wants to have a perfect smile. Many factors such as facial features, gender, lip thickness affect smile and are evaluated together during smile design. In the personalized planning, the patient's request is kept in the foreground and the appropriate smile form is revealed. A proper tooth arrangement, the elimination of discoloration on the teeth are the most effective smile design steps.

Over time, oral aesthetics disappear due to reasons such as gum retraction, tooth loss, aging. Due to incomplete missing teeth, the face height decreases and the person looks older than he is. In this case, by increasing the vertical dimension, completing the missing teeth and an aesthetic treatment process, a perfect smile called Hollywood smile can be achieved. Along with having a perfect smile, self-confidence problems caused by dental disorders disappear. With the smile design, healthy and natural teeth are achieved together with the elimination of aesthetic concerns.

It is very important to be in cooperation with the patient in smile design. The patient's social status, personality, expectations, complaints will guide the treatment. The treatment process that starts with understanding what the patient wants continues with proper planning. The tooth color, tooth size, tooth contours and tooth arrangement that will best suit the patient's face are selected together with the patient.

Smile design is a combined form of treatment. Many forms of treatment can be resorted to. These;

» Teeth whitening: It is divided into two types as office type and home type. Office type whitening is a procedure performed with laser light in a clinical setting. The processing time is 45 minutes. In a single session, the tone of the teeth is opened up to at least 3 tones. Home bleaching, on the other hand, is a bleaching method for more reinforcement purposes applied with special bleaching plaques prepared for the patient.

» Zirconium coatings: Zirconium provides the closest appearance to the natural tooth with its light transmission property and gum harmony. It is a texture-friendly material. It is the most preferred material in aesthetic dentistry.

» Porcelain laminates:The most important advantage of laminates, popularly known as leaf Decals, is to provide aesthetics without etching or minimal etching on the tooth.

» Orthodontic treatments:It is a treatment applied with metal or transparent brackets for the removal of perplexities in the teeth and jaw disorders.