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What is Digital Smile Design?
Are you ready to give your grin a glow-up? Gone are the days of guesswork in dentistry. Digital Smile Design utilises modern technology to design your dream smile with precision and artistic flair. Since everyone's smile is unique, factors like gender, facial structure and even skin tone are considered to achieve the perfect result.
Smile design combines dental treatments to make your smile look better. This process follows the Golden Proportions concept, ensuring that your smile harmonises beautifully with the rest of your face.
Digital Smile Design (DSD) is a cutting-edge cosmetic dentistry technique that provides a digital approach to creating smile makeovers. Using advanced smile design software, digital dentistry techniques and dental digital imaging, this method ensures a customised smile transformation. Whether you are looking for a complete digital smile makeover options or simply enhancing certain aspects of your smile, Digital Smile Design offers an innovative solution for achieving the ideal smile. DSD leverages advanced 3D modeling technology to create perfect smile transformations.
How does Digital Smile Design work?
At Dental Designs, we use a series of modern digital tools to take dental impressions including full-frame digital photographs and 8k video recordings to analyse your facial expressions and dental proportions. This gives us a better understanding and objective guidance in crafting out your smile makeover treatment planning.
Smile Design uses a combination of aesthetic dental procedures including dental veneers, dental implants, teeth whitening and Invisalign. The chosen treatment(s) will depend on the patient’s condition and desired new smile. For example, dental bonding or veneers are put in place to manage chipped teeth; dental bridges for multiple missing teeth; laser gum contouring for excessive gum tissue and professional whitening for tooth discolouration. Smile Design ensures you can visualize your final results before treatment begins, giving you peace of mind and confidence.
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Advantages of Digital Smile Design
- Speed: You get a makeover smile in as little as 7 days.
- Predictability: The digital smile design concept provides predictability and precision, as we utilise digital tools to plan how your smile will look.
- Minimal discomfort: At Dental Designs, we aim to make each dental procedure as comfortable as possible.
- Easily altered: If you're not satisfied with the virtual design of your smile, it can easily be adjusted during the design process.
- Longevity: With proper dental maintenance, you get to keep your designer smile for a long time without relapse.
Getting a New Smile at Dental Designs
Step 1: Consultation
On your first visit, we will discuss with you your expectations and go through the whole process, including a proposed plan and estimated final cost. We will also conduct a thorough examination that consists of digital photos, videos, dental impressions and X-rays to create your digital smile design.
Step 2: Designing the smile
The digital dental impressions taken are used to create a virtual smile design. This digital smile design is then translated into a 3D virtual model. This will be your smile design prototype.
Step 3: Preview of your smile design and mock-ups
The design is presented to you and any adjustments are made on the spot. Once the design is approved, we will transfer the smile prototype into a mockup that can be fitted onto your teeth. This allows you to have a real-life preview of how your final smile would feel and look like. Again, any changes can be made.
Once the final smile design is approved, we will discuss with you the procedures involved in achieving your makeover smile and start work on what’s required.
Step 4: Fitting your new smile
Your smile makeover and final restorations will be put in place. There you have it — enjoy your new smile that enhances your facial features! We do a follow-up review with all patients about two weeks after, so any fine-tuning or adjustments can be carried out.
Step 5: Regular recall appointments
Following this, we recommend that you come back for regular dental visits as basic at-home care might not be sufficient.
Conclusion
With digital smile design, you can see what your new smile will look like before the treatment process even begins. This approach not only improves accuracy but also ensures you're satisfied with the results—a win-win for both you and our dentists! Whether you're looking to correct imperfections or achieve your dream smile, digital smile design makes the entire process much smoother.
For any queries contact Dental Designs and book an appointment!
References
- Jafri, Z., Ahmad, N., Sawai, M., Sultan, N., & Bhardwaj, A. (2020). Digital Smile Design-An innovative tool in aesthetic dentistry. Journal of oral biology and craniofacial research, 10(2), 194–198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobcr.2020.04.010
- Bhuvaneswaran M. (2010). Principles of smile design. Journal of conservative dentistry : JCD, 13(4), 225–232. https://doi.org/10.4103/0972-0707.73387