7 May 2015, Dentistry www.dentistry.co.uk
Olha Vorodyukhina says facial aesthetics can help you to increase your revenue, attract more private patients and will help your practice to standout
The dental industry in the 21st century is something quite spectacular when you think about it.
Intra-oral cameras, the Cerec machine, a wide ranging choice of adult brace systems from six-month smiles to invisible braces, teeth whitening, minimally invasive veneers and crowns, bioactive-restorative and the latest resin materials.
Dentists have all the tools that are required to improve the appearance of teeth. However, straight and white teeth are only one component of a beautiful smile. Smile design has become a popular treatment, and is offered in every dental practice. But do we really deliver this? Unfortunately sometimes we are so obsessed with perfection of our dental work (perfect crown margins, no microleakadge of composite restorations with perfect interproximal contacts) that we fail to look beyond the mouth. A perfect smile cannot be achieved with asymmetrical lips, deep naso-labial, marionette lines or smoker’s lines (the fine lines around the vermilion boarder, a consequence of loss of collagen through aging but accelerated in smokers).