www.lingualcourse.com, Vol 3 No 1, August 2005
A beautiful smile expresses more than a thousand words …about so many interactive feelings between people. Is there anything more magical than a smile? Without any spoken word, when a person smiles, a communication is created. The smile gives a glimpse on ones personality and state of mind. Although many factors provide insight into one personality like body language, yet, the smile is like an open window of the soul and is for sure one of the richest sources of information about the human being. The smile reveals and expresses ones originality. The smile offers many fascinating aspects for contemplation. Few general aspects of the smile and its significance will be discussed, followed by the periodontist function in creating the ideal and aesthetic smile. Andre Saadoun
Our next goal should be to help provide the tools necessary for dental students to be able to be far better than we are in achieving the artistic and clinical skills their patients desire and require. Dental school curriculum should help new dentists become better artists, besides being technicians and scientists. It is a goal we all should aspire to, because it will require our combined efforts to change and improve the curriculum of dental schools throughout the world. The same concern should also be extended to training laboratory technicians to be better artists, so that our ceramic restorations will reflect the desires and goals of patients, and those of dentists providing them. To accomplish this will need more concentrated efforts of dental schools in offering these types of courses, as well as financing the salaries of teachers to ensure that these results are indeed achieved. It is a goal worthy of all of our combined efforts. Ron Goldstein
Orthodontics has been associated with creating beautiful smiles since its inception as the first dental specialty at the beginning of the 20th century. Now, that orthodontics has passed its centennial year, it has become a fully integrated partner in the interdisciplinary development of the smile. For most of its life, orthodontics was delivered to children and adolescents. Although developing a beautiful smile in a child may be challenging at times, today's younger generation typically has a non-worn, non-restored, nonperiodontally involved complete dentition, which makes the art of creating a beautiful smile relatively predictable. However, today orthodontics is not just for kids. In many parts of the world, orthodontic practices treat anywhere from 25% to 50% adults or more. Although adults make wonderful patients, they may have abraded anterior teeth, failing restorations, crown length discrepancies, uneven gingival levels, bone loss, tissue recession, and a myriad of other dental problems that result in altered tooth position and create a serious esthetic challenge for the restorative dentist. But this is where orthodontics may have its greatest effect. Yes, orthodontics can straighten teeth and thereby improve the smile. But perhaps more importantly, orthodontics can also level anterior gingival margins, eliminate excessive gingival display, obliterate open gingival embrasures or "black triangles", create appropriate anterior restorative spaces, correct uneven anterior crown length, develop anterior implant sites, improve anterior bone level problems in the periodontal patient, correct dental midline deviations, and eliminate incisal plane discrepancies. When these relatively straightforward alterations are made prior to restorative dentistry, general dentists have their best opportunity to create more ideal smile esthetics, even in the most complex and debilitated situations. Yes, now that we have entered the 21st century, orthodontics has become an integral partner in the interdisciplinary management of smile esthetics. Vince Kokich
The word "art" embraces a myriad of facets. Although art is in the eyes of the beholder, it has some consensual rules. Art has cultural influences, fashion influences; art engenders adoration and aspiration; some see it as beauty while others remain indifferent. A perception of art evokes the combination of all human senses. Art is not something we ignore. Coining the name, "The Art of the Smile," was already suggestive of a compound entity. The "smile" clearly incorporates three components - the teeth, the lips and the gums; but many other less-obvious elements are involved such as, sizing, color matching, texture, lighting and so on. Many patients and clinicians are seeking guidelines as to what the perfect smile should look like, how it should be designed and whether at all we should attempt to standardize the individual smile. Yet the smile is one of the most appealing attributes of our personality and it can open so many doors that people are todayprepared to invest enormous effort and funds in improving their smile, no less than they do with other parts of their body and their image.
Dentistry in the last half century is no longer a profession conducted by general dentists only, but is shared by specialists who spend most of their professional lives in researching and improving their specialty. This book attempts to merge five distinct aspects of the professions dealing with the smile: Prosthodontics, Periodontics, Orthodontics, Dental Technology and Plastic Surgery. The uniqueness of this book is its international characteristic. Each of its distinguished contributors is already a world-renowned persona, having published countless articles and books, delivered lectures around the world, presenting his/her own point of view on the subject. When approached to contribute to "The Art of the Smile", they were all asked to consider the team approach that is so essential for treating patients nowadays.
The different chapters will give the reader, whatever his specialty, even if he is a lay reader, the most recent update of the diagnosis to treatment of numerous clinical cases. Each of them presents a different approach, a different diagnosis, various treatment plans, but all demonstrate outstanding clinical results. |
The Art of the Smile- Contents
Prosthodontics
With an introduction by Ronald E. Goldstein
Chapter 1 Teeth Malalignment: A Restorative Approach Emphasizing Gingival Integration and Papillae Support - Nitzan Bichacho
Chapter 2 Extensive Prosthetic Rehabilitations with Multiple All-Ceramic Crowns - Bernard Touati
Chapter 3 Esthetics or Cosmetics? Bleaching and How to Choose the Proper Alloy for Esthetic Restorations - Carlo Zappal
Chapter 4 Four Esthetic Tales - Irfan Ahmad
Orthodontics
With an introduction by Vincent G. Kokich
Chapter 5 Dynamic Smile Visualization and Quantification and Its Impact on Orthodontic Diagnosis and Treatment Planning - David M. Sarver and Marc B. Ackerman
Chapter 6 Missing Maxillary Central Incisors: Interdisciplinary Approach with Orthodontic Space Closure, Autotransplantation of Premolars, and Single- Tooth Implants - Bjorn U. Zachrisson and Sverker Toreskog
Chapter 7 Interdisciplinary Management of Congenitally Missing Lateral Incisors - Vincent Kokich, Jr, and Greggory Kinzer
Chapter 8 Considerations in Creating a Beautiful Smile in the Esthetic Zone - Cobi Landsberg
Chapter 9 Adult Orthodontics: Problems and Solutions with Lingual Orthodontics -
Didier Fillion
Chapter 10 Severe Open Bites Treated Nonsurgically with Lingual Orthodontic Appliances - Silvia Geron
Chapter 11 Space Closure with Lingual Orthodontics: Different Mechanics for Different Smiles and Profiles, Rafi Romano
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Periodontics
With an introduction by David A. Garber
Chapter 12 All About the Smile - Andre P. Saadoun
Chapter 13 Preservation of the Interimplant Papilla in the Esthetic Zone - Cobi Landsberg
Chapter 14 Optimizing Esthetics at the Periodontal- Restorative Interface - Eric Van Dooren
Chapter 15 Soft Tissue Management Around Teeth and Implants: A Microsurgical Approach - Hannes C. Wachtel, Markus B. H?rzeler, Otto Zuhr and Wolfgang Bolz
Dental Technology
With an introduction by John W. McLean
Chapter 16 New Approaches to Shade Communication Nicola Pietrobon, Stefan J. Paul, and Norbert Packer
Chapter 17 Reproducing the Natural Smile Through Proper Material Selection -
Pinhas Adar
Chapter 18 Illusions and Reality in the Esthetic Work of the Dental Technician:The Fourth Dimension in Dentistry - Klaus Muterthies
Plastic Surgery
With an introduction by Ivo Pitanguy
Chapter 19 Facial and Perioral Rejuvenation - Michael Scheflan
Chapter 20 Esthetic Rhinoplasty: Harmony and Sculpture - Gilbert Aiach, Richard G. Alexander
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