A denture or partial denture (dentures) smile makeover is the process of improving the appearance of the smile through the art of denture aesthetic enhancement. A smile makeover is something that will enhance your smile, your character, your esteem; a new you. While improved mechanical function is essential for health, a smile makeover is an added luxury that is chosen by the patient.
With your input, a denture smile makeover specialist takes into consideration your facial anatomical appearance, skin tone, hair color, teeth - color, width, length, shape and tooth arrangement, along with gum tissue and lip colors, to create your ultimate smile. A smile makeover application to dentures is a process, accomplished between you and your specialist or artist, of eliminating the negative characteristics and replacing them with desirable ones.
Before considering the smile makeover aspect of dentures, it is imperative that you consider the qualifications, training, experience and track record of the professional who performs it. An accurate denture smile makeover is most thoroughly accomplished on a one-on-one setting; you and the specialist who actually designs and custom manufactures the dentures. This specialist is called a denture technologist or technician. The problem is, due to organized dentistry’s high powered legislative lobby to protect its monopoly, many state laws forbid technologists to work directly with the patient and restrict them to supplying dentures from behind the scene; not actually seeing the patient. Since dentists are not trained craftsmen what is the solution? Since 1977, many states have set up educational programs in which denture technologists have been able to enroll in specialized denture practitioner programs that offer ten times more denture training than dentists are required to have. Unlike dentists, these denture specialists become board certified. They are called denturists, whereas, dentists are generalists; jacks of all trades. However, there are exceptions to the rule; less than one out of one hundred dentists may have thorough denture makeover capabilities, of which were either learned before entering or after graduating from dental school.
Aspects Of Your Smile That Your Cosmetic Denturist Will Consider:
Tooth Color: Makeover dentures built by denture specialists not only include a natural life-like tooth arrangement that will enhance your smile and facial features but can also be special blended in a natural toned white shade. Natural white tooth shades come in several different hues. Your denture specialist will help you to choose one that will properly blend with your natural pigmentation, hair color and eye color. Tooth color and shading along with a creative smile arrangement is an important aspect of a youthful appearance. Provided it is done properly by an experienced denture specialist who has technical and mechanical denture background, it will truly give you a becoming youthful smile; no one will be able to tell that you are wearing dentures.
Tooth Arrangement: After thorough cosmetic and makeover evaluation, your denture smile artist first makes sure of the desired tooth color and proportionate tooth size. Then after taking impressions and other intraoral recordings, he or she will strive to arrange the teeth to the natural length and fullness so as to naturally support every facial contour of the mouth and face. It is important that the gums are not over exposed when smiling. The teeth must be of proper length and alignment so that words can be pronounced proficiently. A good denture smile specialist will meticulously and patiently strive to achieve all of these aspects, no matter how many visits it takes; doing all alterations in person while the patient is present. Sending them out to a lab would be like Monet or Di Vinci trying to paint a portrait from a couple of brief notes from a middleman without the subject actually being present.