Smile esthetics has always been known to influence the perception of beauty and attractiveness. This 25-year-old lady believed that her crooked teeth were causing a hindrance in her beautiful smile and hence were hindering her marriage prospects. With this thought in her mind, she walked into our clinic searching for a solution. This bridal smile makeover was taken up as a challenge by our team of experts. 

This patient was expecting a fixed, long-term solution giving the best possible results without investing heavy time. After discussing the different treatment options the patient decided to go ahead with a complete smile makeover with the help of veneers.

Brief About Dental Veneers:

A dental veneer is a thin layer of porcelain/composite made to fit over the front surface of a tooth.

Advantages Of Dental Veneers:

• Veneers can improve the color, shape, and position of your teeth.

• The desired color of the veneer can be selected to improve the shade of the tooth.

• As veneers are very thin and are held in place by a special strong adhesive, very minimal tooth preparation is needed. Sometimes veneers do not need any tooth preparation at all. 

• Veneers can also be used when orthodontics (braces) are not suitable or desired.

• A veneer can also be used for correcting the position of just one single as well without disturbing the adjacent natural teeth.

The most important part to be considered before any treatment is begun is proper discussion and discovery of the patient’s chief complaint and concerns and whether the clinician can achieve the patient’s desired final results.
After a thorough review of the patient’s medical and dental history, a comprehensive dental examination is completed, including a proper radiographic assessment.
Restorative dentistry involves the significant dental treatment, including the patient’s smile proper documentation with the help of photographs is important.

This is the pre-operative image of the patient showing misalignment of the front teeth.

The facially generated aesthetic treatment plan is generated which involves the aesthetic analysis of the case.
The smile must complement the facial features, both vertically and horizontally.
This helps in developing tooth positions aligned with parameters specific to a particular face thus complementing the full facial aesthetics.

Tooth proportions and proper length to width ratios are evaluated carefully and are designed digitally.
Overall tooth proportions are another key and critically important assessment that must be made by the clinician during the initial evaluation.

Micro esthetics is another important factor to be considered during smile designing.
When it comes to designing the ideal smile desired by the patient, especially with the use of indirect restorations, the clinician needs to assess and discuss the final color or shade desired by the patient.

After overall assessment and proper evaluation of the recorded measurements including the facial features tooth preparation for veneers is started.
The focus of esthetic restorative treatments is to minimize tooth reduction and create very conservative tooth preparations.
The final form of the teeth, as designed by the treatment plan, is used as a guide for planning tooth reduction.

After proper tooth preparation, temporary restorations mimicking the smile design are generated. These approved designs are then copied in the laboratory.

Preserving the continuity in the form and position final restorations are cemented in situ. The intermediate step of temporization and trial smile ensure the functional stability of the restoration.

The shade of the final restoration is aesthetically stable enhancing the patient’s final desired results. After following all the sequential steps for the procedure of smile designing the patient is very much pleased and happy with the favorable treatment outcomes as defined by her smile itself.