Smile designing in Complete Denture-An Overview

Restoring the appearance of an edentulous patient is always a challenge. Denture aesthetics is the effect produced by a denture that affects beauty and attractiveness of a person. It is blending or combination of art and science of Prosthodontics. Esthetic dental treatment involves artistic and subjective components designed to create the illusion of beauty. Our ultimate goal is to achieve pleasing composition in the smile by creating an arrangement of various esthetic elements. Complete denture esthetics does not begin and end with selection of denture teeth, factors such as impression technique, occlusal plane, vertical dimension, and centric relation also significantly affect denture esthetics. The dentist must consider esthetic guidelines to achieve esthetics for complete denture.