Anterior Teeth and Smile Designing: A Prospective View

Smile is a person’s greatest beauty asset. A defective smile might be considered as a physical handicap as the mouth act as a focal point where a large share of attention is directed toward mouth and teeth, it would be nice to have some sort of tools to assess beauty, which currently does not exist. Standards for beauty are actually a compilation and comparison of everything we have seen or experienced. Smile design is different from tooth design, with tooth design one is concerned with contour, position and color of individual teeth, while integration of these teeth into the face and facial features is paramount in smile design. This article describes some average desirable characteristic features of smile to help and achieve optimum result in esthetic oral rehabilitation.