Digital smile designing uses tools that assists with the diagnostics and allows the clinician to better predict treatment outcomes by using analysis of the aesthetic principles in extra and intraoral digital photographs.
Knowledge of smile design, coupled with new and innovative dental technologies, allows dentists to diagnose, plan, create, and deliver aesthetically pleasing new smiles.
Simultaneously, digital dentistry is enabling dentists to provide what patients demand: quick, comfortable, and predictable dental restorations that satisfy their aesthetic needs.
In addition, implementation of a digital dentistry tool can improve communication among the patient, clinician, and dental laboratories and may become a common technique for all aesthetic rehabilitations. The digital smile designing is a simple technique that does not require specific equipment or software.

Role of the Dentist:

  • To improve the skill and know-how of dental professionals in order for them to provide to their patients complete and comprehensive dental care with interdisciplinary treatment planning using digital technologies and enhancing patient experience with Emotional Dentistry.
  • To integrate proven digital technologies into dental practices to provide cutting-edge dental treatment that is more efficient, effective, and comfortable.
  • Digital dental technologies allow quicker, more detailed consultations with patients and easy collaborations with other dental specialists than in the past.
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  • Webinars
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What you'll learn...

  • Smile parameters and how to use them.
  • Various types of digital smile designing.
  • How to implement digital smile designing chairside workflows into your everyday practice with improved patient communication and treatment planning and manage expectations.
  • Increase your case acceptance with a very small initial investment.
  • How to create a mock-up using advanced software.
  • How to perform full-mouth rehabilitation cases with minimum adjustments to the final restorations.
  • How to convert 2D smile designs to a 3D functional wax-up.
  • Take the next steps and understand how to utilize smile design in your practice.
  • Plan and execute functional restorations to maximize longevity.

Requirements for a Digital Smile Centre

Basic requirements:
  • A computer/ a high end tablet
  • A digital smile designing software
  • A digital SLR camera/ a smartphone
  • A digital intraoral scanner
  • Access to OPG/ x-ray facility
Additional requirements:
  • 3D printer
  • CAD/CAM

An accurate photographic documentation is essential as complete facial and dental analysis rests on preliminary photographs on which changes and designing is formulated, a video documentation is required for dynamic analysis of teeth, gingiva, lips and face during smiling, laughing and talking in order to integrate facially guided principles to the smile design.

There are many software developed by different companies that can be used to design smiles digitally. The clinician can use any of the programmes according to the needs.

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