SMILE ESTHETICS

An attractive smile reflects warmth, contentment, health and self-worth. It can enhance the personal and professional relationships and actually inspires others. Smile is determined not only in the perception of facial attractiveness, but also with the perception of one's psychological characteristics. After receiving an aesthetic treatment, patient¿s self-esteem and quality of life can be improved.The ideal components of the smile should be considered not as rigid boundaries, but as artistic guidelines to help orthodontists treat individual patients who are highly aware of smile esthetics. The overall symmetry, balance and proportion are important when viewed from a distance. The goal of orthodontic treatment should be to attain of the best possible occlusal relationship while maintaining or enhancing facial aesthetics.Thus, the smile management of a patient starts right from understanding the patient's perceptions, concepts and needs of a beautiful smile and integrate it with our diagnosis, treatment plan and biomechanics so that at the end of day when treatment finishes both the clinician and the patient has a reason to smile.