Smile Designing

A pleasant smile is an expression of joy. A smile is a uniquely human gesture that is unlike the grimace of lower primates. Confident attractive smile is the most important social bonding gesture and key to professional enhancement. Smile design refers to the many scientific and artistic principles that can collectively create a beautiful smile. The ultimate objective of aesthetics in dentistry is to create a beautiful smile with teeth of pleasing inherent proportion to one another and pleasing tooth arrangement in harmony with gingiva lip and face of the patient. From the patient’s perspective beauty measures that individual’s perception of beauty as noted in the saying: ‘‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.’’ The purpose of this book is to provide information regarding designing a beautiful smile for the patients.