Digital Smile Design
Advances in computer software packages now mean that if you choose to improve your smile, you can now be fully confident of the results you'll achieve even before your treatment has started.
As well as letting you know what to expect, by working with you to create a digital smile your dentist will ensure you are fully involved in the process of creating your new smile at all times, meaning you will be able to ask any questions and raise any concerns you may have.
Digital smile design is commonly used for veneers, implants and crowns, as well as other cosmetic dentistry procedures.
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Photographs are taken of your existing smile and scanned into the computer. Your dentist will discuss exactly what you want to achieve.
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Your dentist will use the latest software to design your new smile, creating a realistic likeness of how it will look when treatment is complete.
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A 3D simulation of your new smile is then made, so you can see it from all angles before treatment begins.
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You will be fitted with a temporary version of your new smile to check that you are happy with the results.
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Only when you are completely satisfied will your dentist complete permanent restoration work, leaving you with the smile of your dreams.
Life Benefits
You have full input into your new smile design
Your dentist will be aware of any issues that may arise before treatment starts
You will be able to check you're happy with your smile before and during treatment
How the Treatment Works
YOU DON’T HAVE
TO BE BORN WITH A
Beautiful Smile
TO HAVE ONE
WITH
DIGITAL SMILE DESIGN
DESIGN YOUR OWN SMILE
LET US CREATE IT
THE IMPORTANCE OF A
Beautiful Smile
Your smile is unique. It tells the world about you; fosters communication and goodwill; indicates vitality; happiness and general well being. Throughout history, the absence
or presence of a smile has been of great significance. A beautiful, bright smile indicates confidence, success and friendship.
Improve your personal and professional relationships; make a positive, powerful and memorable statement to those you meet by creating your own bright, beautiful and spontaneous smile with the Digital Smile Design process.
Traditionally, you were not able to have creative input into your new smile but new modern day technologies enables us to assist you to design your new smile. Once designed, we can then create it for you utilizing our minimally invasive procedures that your digital smile design provides for us.
SMILE ASSESSMENT TEST
Do you feel awkward or self-conscious about your smile?
Do you cover your mouth when you talk, laugh or smile?
When the camera shutter opens, do your lips close?
Do you hate close-up shots?
Do you avoid using bright lipstick because you’re afraid of
highlighting your discoloured teeth?
Have you ever grown a moustache or beard to hide your smile?
DOES YOUR SMILE
SAY IT ALL?
Although a vast number of people understand the importance of
a good smile, only half think that their smile makes the grade.
92.5%
9 out of 10 people agree that an attractive smile is an
important social asset
74%
3 out of 4 people agree that an unattractive smile can
compromise a person’s chance for career success
If you answered yes to any of the above, then Digital Smile Design can help you to design and create your smile.
50%
But only 1 out of 2 people are satisfied with their smile
DIGITAL SMILE
DESIGN PROCESS
PATIENT EXAM + PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORDS
Our state of the art photographic and imaging technologies enables us to capture, plan and analyze your smile: taking into account dental and facial features such as how you talk and laugh as well as your aesthetic expectations to digitally develop your new smile.
DESIGNING YOUR NEW SMILE
DESIGNING YOUR NEW SMILE
After a 7-10 day design period, using the latest Digital Smile Design (DSD), we will create a personal smile that is unique to you and your aesthetic expectations that are also in balance with your functional needs.
DIGITAL SMILE PREVIEW
After designs are completed, we will transfer your digitally designed smile to your own mouth, in a removable format.
We can then adjust the new smile based on your feedback to create the final blueprint before any treatment is commenced.
DSD PROCESS
FINAL SMILE DESIGN +
DIGITAL BLUEPRINT
BEFORE
DIGITAL SIMULATION
Your final digital smile blueprint will be the result of the collaborative discussions between yourself and our highly trained cosmetic dentists.
This will provide the ideal design parameters for all planned treatment when you start to create your new smile.
FINAL SMILE MAKEOVER
Your final smile preview will be photographed and videod in your mouth and provided for you to review.
Viewing your new smile as a 3rd party observer is the life-changing moment for you to see the end result before treatment.
You can now control the end result... no more guesswork!
WHITENING &
BLEACHING
Discoloured teeth are the bane of smokers, red wine buffs, tea, coffee drinkers and even some people who have had antibiotics as a child.
Don’t despair: a safe and effective remedy is only a smile away. Your dentist will determine whether your teeth are suitable for bleaching before making a thin bleaching tray that fits comfortably over your teeth.
This is worn with a small amount of tooth whitening
gel for half hour sessions twice daily until your ideal colour is obtained.
While you wear your bleaching tray, it gently whitens your teeth.
Whitening is perfectly safe for teeth and gums. That’s because the tooth structure is not changed, just the colour.
If caffeine, red wine and cigarettes continue to be a daily fix, you can rebrighten your smile by wearing the bleaching tray one or two times every three to six months.
BEFORE
AFTER
PORCELAIN VENEERS
Porcelain veneers are ideal for creating beautiful smiles in cases of small, oddly shaped, spaced, or discoloured teeth.
With this procedure you will be involved directly in your own design process in reshaping, widening and brightening your smile, thus ensuring total satisfaction.
Your dentist can place temporary bonding for 2-3 weeks to protect your teeth and to create the blueprint for your new smile.
Thin skins of porcelain are then fused to the teeth enabling normal social and eating activities to resume immediately. After treatment you will feel excited about your beautiful new smile.
BEFORE
AFTER
GUM LIFTS
& VENEERS
There are now answers for those of us that are embarrassed to smile, afraid of showing to much gum or have small teeth. Gums can be raised by a procedure that removes excess gum, often with no stitches required. It’s a painless procedure that usually takes place in the chair. The results are dramatic, showing more teeth for a fuller instant smile.
Used in conjunction with porcelain veneers, this combination is an ideal way to correct oddly shaped, small or crooked teeth. Colour matching the veneers to
your adjacent teeth prior to the final procedure, ensures
a perfect smile that you will be proud of.
BEFORE
AFTER
PORCELAIN CROWNS
For many years, traditional metal based crowns have been used to strengthen teeth that are heavily filled, weakened, or darkened due to root canal therapy. But thanks to new technology, all porcelain crowns look as good as your own teeth. This is because the distinctive dark metal line or “blue halo” of old-style crowns have
been eliminated.
Porcelain crowns are now metal-free and so natural looking they could be mistaken for real teeth. You don’t have to have the “blue halo” look with your new crowns. Ask how this exciting technology can
help create your new smile.
BEFORE
AFTER
YOU DON’T HAVE
TO BE BORN WITH A
Beautiful Smile
TO HAVE ONE
DESIGN YOUR OWN SMILE
LET US DELIVER IT