Digital Smile Design

Ban Ali Salih

Abstract: Smile design refers to the many scientific and artistic principles that considered collectively can create a beautiful smile. These principles are established through data collected from patients, diagnostic models, dental research, scientific measurements, and basic artistic concepts of beauty. Digital smile design is a multipurpose digital tool with clinically relevant advantages. DSD can make diagnosis more effective and treatment planning more consistent so the effort required to implement it is worthwhile and will make the treatment sequence more logical and straightforward, saving time and materials and reducing the cost of treatment.

Keywords: DSD, Smile, Design, Digital