When you’re considering a significant change to your teeth, one of the hardest things can be imagining the end result.
Digital Smile Design changes that. Rather than relying on imagination alone, we can plan your new smile visually before treatment begins, giving both you and your dentist a clear idea of what you’re working towards.
Using photographs and digital records of your teeth and face, we can consider how changes to your teeth could work with your smile as a whole. It gives us a clearer destination to plan towards and gives you the opportunity to understand and discuss that destination before treatment begins.
Digital Smile Design gives us a clear result to work towards, but just as importantly, it gives you a way to be involved in shaping it.
We can look at how proposed changes work with your face and smile, talk through what you like and what you would change, and refine the plan before treatment begins.
That plan can then guide the treatment itself, whether we’re placing implants, moving teeth or changing their shape and appearance with crowns or veneers.
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One of the most valuable parts of Digital Smile Design is that you don’t have to rely entirely on imagination when discussing what you’d like to change.
Digital planning can help us visualise the proposed result and talk it through with you before committing to treatment.
That makes the process collaborative. You can tell us what you like, what you don’t and what feels like you. The aim isn’t to give everybody the same idea of a “perfect smile”, but to plan a result that works with your face and feels right for you.
A smile isn’t something you only see in a still photograph.
Your teeth need to work when you bite and chew, but they are also seen when you talk, laugh and move your face. That’s why planning needs to consider more than the shape and shade of individual teeth.
Digital Smile Design helps us look at your teeth in the context of your face and smile, so appearance and function can be considered together.
Digital Smile Design can form part of the planning for a range of treatments, including:
We can plan the intended tooth and smile first, then consider where the implant needs to be positioned to support that result.
Shape, proportion and position can be considered as part of the wider smile rather than treating each tooth in isolation.
When teeth are being moved, digital planning can help us consider how their eventual position contributes to the overall smile.
Where more than one treatment is involved, having a clear result becomes particularly valuable. Each stage can be planned as part of the same overall outcome.
With implant dentistry, the position of the implant needs to work with the tooth or teeth it will eventually support.
At Broad Street, Junaid uses pre-treatment photographs to help establish the smile and teeth he is aiming to create first.
Digital scanning and 3D imaging can then be used to plan the implants around that result.
The implant is ultimately the foundation. What matters to you is the tooth or teeth it allows us to create.
For suitable full-set implant cases, this detailed preparation can also allow a temporary bridge to be prepared so that patients can leave on the day of implant placement with a functioning set of teeth and their new smile already taking shape.
Digital dentistry isn’t valuable simply because it’s newer technology. What matters is what it allows us to do differently.
By establishing where we want your smile to end up before treatment begins, we can make decisions throughout your treatment with that result in mind.
And importantly, you’re part of those decisions too.
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