Dental esthetics today has evolved beyond the esthetic restoration
of individual teeth to incorporate beauty in its fullest
sense. However, the making of beautiful teeth is only the
final phase in esthetic smile design. The real essence of
smile design is orchestrating labial gingival harmony prior
to the creation of the actual teeth.
This program will take
you through the “ten step program in smile design”
demonstrating the clinical procedures to diagnose and reconstruct
the individual “restorative receptive sites”
and their collective arrangement in harmony with the patient’s
individual and specific lip and facial form. The common
denominator for an optimal esthetic reconstruction is the
restorative receptor site, and today surgical plastic procedures
and orthodontic manipulation of the hard and soft tissues
allows for reconstruction of most all esthetic deficiencies.
This is especially important when considering tooth replacement
with dental implants. In addition, an innovative classification
of papilla defects similarly allows for prognostic treatment
planning and therapy to ensure predictable esthetic success.
These key issues must be preemptively addressed regardless
of whether the restoration is to be a tooth, an implant
or pontic.
