SMILE DESIGN AND MOCK UP
The only way to satisfy the patient is creating his / her own smile. Having the combination of essential knowledge of esthetic dentistry and also basic philosophy of esthetics in mind is a necessity for the practitioner. On the other hand understanding patient’s demands, and clarifying the treatment options and restrictions are as important affective factors as knowing social and psychologic aspects of patient’s life. Only then we can create a custom smile for each patient. Smile design in today dentistry comes through using dental photography, intra oral scanners and special digital smile design software.
To accomplish a trustful cosmetic treatment we need to have smile design. Offering a proper treatment plan based on every individual needs and situation is the main rule in modern esthetic dentistry. Gathering the important and necessary information from the patient and analyzing them help the cosmetic dentist to discover the problems. After that by considering patient’s demands the perfect solutions come true.
Unfortunately, the final results of the esthetic treatment are uncleared until the end of the treatments, so there is a possibility that patient would reject the treatment outcomes at the end. To prevent this to happen there should be a noninvasive way at the starting point to test the final treatment without any damage to the teeth. Therefore, not only the patient becomes familiar to the treatment results, but also the dentist understands how he/she can do the treatment in a correct way to obtain the desired results. Through mock up procedure without any touching the teeth, the cosmetic dentist put a temporary model of the final treatment on the patient’s teeth. So, they both can get opinions about the treatment and if the patient do not satisfy with this model the treatment can not be started and in this situation patient’s teeth remain intact with no harm.