What is smile analysis and design?
Dr. Shea takes extreme care when analyzing your features to design a smile that best compliments you. This includes looking at your teeth, face shape and size, bite alignment and how you swallow, speak and eat. All of this allows him to make sure you have a healthy environment without disease and decay. Smile analysis is not just our way of helping you address that common question of “what can I do to look better?” but so much more! Dr. Shea takes everything into consideration to create a smile that will make you happy for the rest of your life. He’ll sit down with you to understand your goals and to help you understand the opportunities to ultimately reach those goals.
Dr. Rice takes extreme care when analyzing your features to design a smile that best compliments you. This includes looking at your teeth, face shape and size, bite alignment and how you swallow, speak and eat. All of this allows him to make sure you have a healthy environment without disease and decay. Smile analysis is not just our way of helping you address that common question of “what can I do to look better?” but so much more! Dr. Rice takes everything into consideration to create a smile that will make you happy for the rest of your life. He’ll sit down with you to understand your goals and to help you understand the opportunities to ultimately reach those goals.
Smile analysis and design are the processes that we use to ensure that your new smile is just right for you. We analyze your smile using digital photos that we take of you in combination with the models that we take of your mouth during your first visit. We’ll analyze many different factors, such as the way your teeth come together, the way the joints function, and how worn your teeth are. We’ll check on how the features of your face work together—for example, if the upper teeth follow (as they should) the natural curve of your lower lip. We’ll also look at the size, shape and color of your teeth in relation to your face. Once we have analyzed all that information, we start designing a new smile for you—a smile that is the right proportion for your face, that will not only look great but will also function well. We’ll use wax to alter the shape of your teeth on the models, then transfer that shape, using a temporary composite material, to your mouth. You’ll actually be able to see, rig
Smile analysis is the process we use to evaluate your current smile. We’ll take x-rays, photos, and models of your teeth in order to look at their shape and size. We even mount your models on a special machine called an articulator that allows us to simulate your bite and assess how your teeth fit together and relate to each other. Then, taking all this information, we design a smile that’s right for your particular face—and the right smile is different for every person. We use what is known as the “golden proportion,” which is a ratio that occurs frequently in nature and in many man-made objects as well (the Great Pyramids, for example). We don’t look at just individual teeth; we take care that whatever treatments or changes we recommend harmonize with your whole mouth and honor the contours of your face. “Patients come to the office with an agenda- a checklist of things they would like to accomplish,” Dr. Beaty explains. “It’s not their fault that they may not know how to achieve tha
Smile analysis and design is the complex, exacting process that we use to create a smile that is just right for you, a smile that compliments your unique features. We take photographs and models of your mouth and face before we begin any work; then, using digital imaging techniques and wax models, we make changes in the size, shape and color of your teeth so that they will be in the perfect configuration and proportion for you.
