introduction: the effect of education on esthetic perception is still unclear. this study aims to compare the perception of smile esthetics, under various conditions, among general and specialist dentists. materials and methods: a photograph of a woman’s smile was digitally altered using a software image editing program. alterations were made tothe dental midline, anterior gingival display, buc...

BACKGROUND The paradigm shift from occlusion to esthetics places more emphasis on the subtle relationships among the teeth and the interplay with the soft tissues. The authors of this study quantified the ideal and maximum acceptable deviations for smile characteristics. METHODS The authors created a survey by using a digital image editing software package, which enabled raters to manipulate ...

Objective: To evaluate the esthetic perception of upper dental midline deviation by laypersons and if adjacent structures influence their judgment. Methods: An album with 12 randomly distributed frontal view photographs of the smile of a woman with the midline digitally deviated was evaluated by 95 laypersons. The frontal view smiling photograph was modified to create from 1 mm to 5 mm deviat...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the correlations between the components of the Objective Grading System developed by the American Board of Orthodontics (ABO) and smile esthetics. MATERIALS AND METHODS The clinical photographs of 48 orthodontically treated patients were rated by a panel of 25 experienced orthodontists (15 men and 10 women) and 20 parents of orthodontic patients (eight men and 12 women)....

Faced with a patient who has extensive esthetic enhancement demands, simply aligning the teeth and achieving a functional occlusion might not suffice. The goal of this article is to help orthodontists to analyze and to optimize the positioning of upper anterior teeth so as to improve the esthetics of the smile. Of course, esthetics is not an objective notion. Therefore, maintaining good communi...

UNLABELLED In today's dental literature, most frequently, esthetics are addressed with fixed restorations. This article will illustrate the opportunity to provide our patients with very good esthetic outcomes with a hopeless dentition utilizing dental implants, laser-welded titanium components, and characterized acrylic resin prostheses. The definitive prostheses provide excellent facial suppor...

than equivalent ceramic restorations for the treatment of both anterior and posterior teeth.1-3 Moreover, composite restorations allow for minimally invasive preparations or no preparation at all when modifying existing tooth anatomy or assuming the replacement of decayed tissues; this constitutes an unparalleled advantage of “free-hand bonding” also due to its relative simplicity. This rationa...