Smile designing in Complete Denture-An Overview Dr. Basavanna Jayaprakash Mugur1, Dr. Barua Dikshita Ray2, Dr. Gaurav Amit3 1Professor, Dept of Prosthodontics, Saraswati Dental College and Hospital, Lucknow 2Post Graduate Student, Dept of Prosthodontics, Saraswati Dental College and Hospital, Lucknow 3Post Graduate Student, Dept of Prosthodontics, Saraswati Dental College and Hospital, Lucknow Online published on 10 May, 2016. Abstract Restoring the appearance of an edentulous patient is always a challenge. Denture aesthetics is the effect produced by a denture that affects beauty and attractiveness of a person. It is blending or combination of art and science of Prosthodontics. Esthetic dental treatment involves artistic and subjective components designed to create the illusion of beauty. Our ultimate goal is to achieve pleasing composition in the smile by creating an arrangement of various esthetic elements. Complete denture esthetics does not begin and end with selection of denture teeth, factors such as impression technique, occlusal plane, vertical dimension, and centric relation also significantly affect denture esthetics. The dentist must consider esthetic guidelines to achieve esthetics for complete denture. Top Keywords smile design, dentures esthestics. Top |