VIRTUAL EVALUATION OF COMPLETE DENTURES SMILE ANATOMICAL RELATIONSHIPS

Abstract

Introduction: Esthetics is becoming more important to completely edentulous patients than ever before, and more of them are asking for the smile of movie stars. The purpose of this study was to adopt the Digital Smile Design (DSD) software as a new method for complete dentures smile evaluation, that is more reliable than the subjective judgement of the dentist, the patient, or the patients' relatives.