{"id":356,"date":"2014-12-11T00:31:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T05:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woowangdental.com\/blog\/?p=356"},"modified":"2019-08-28T00:35:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T04:35:51","slug":"padma-lakshmis-smile-a-recipe-for-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woowangdental.com\/blog\/padma-lakshmis-smile-a-recipe-for-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Padma Lakshmi’s Smile: A Recipe for Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Before she began hosting the long-running TV competition Top Chef<\/em>, Padma Lakshmi was a well-known model and successful cookbook author. (Appropriately, she is said to have been \u201cdiscovered\u201d by a modeling agent while sitting in a caf\u00e9 in Madrid.) Yet the Indian-born beauty’s striking look \u2014 at once exotic and familiar \u2014 doesn’t come from any cookie-cutter mold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So when Lakshmi had cosmetic work done on her teeth, early in her career, her dentist didn’t use a cookie-cutter approach either: Instead, her smile was carefully designed, using small amounts of bonding material to brighten her teeth and to bring their shape and spacing into harmony with her facial features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dentistry by Design<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What exactly is smile design \u2014 and what could it do for you? Essentially, it’s the process of evaluating your smile in concert with the appearance of your entire face, and visualizing the changes \u2014 some dramatic and some subtle \u2014 that will make it really shine. Some aspects we consider include the face’s shape, the proportion or \u201cbalance\u201d of facial features, the complexion, eye and lip color and form, and the overall dimensions of the smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on dental aesthetics and clinical experience, we will probably have a number of suggestions to make on how you can improve your smile. Your input will also be very important; while some individuals prefer perfectly even teeth and a sparkling \u201cHollywood white\u201d smile, others are looking for a result that’s more in keeping with a \u201cnatural\u201d look: slight irregularities in tooth shape, spacing, and even color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s no right or wrong answer here: Having a \u201cperfect\u201d smile means what’s perfect for you, so it’s very important for dentists and patients to communicate openly during the smile design process. But sometimes, words alone just aren’t enough to convey the subtle dimensions of beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trial Smile<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, it’s now possible to preview your \u201cperfect\u201d smile using a number of different techniques. Advances in computer imaging make this the first step in previewing your new smile \u2014 you can see the changes before a single tooth is touched! Still, many people find that having a more concrete picture is helpful. The next step is to make a 3-D mock-up the proposed dental work on an actual model of your mouth. That way, you can see a physical representation of the final results \u2014 and even turn it around and hold it in your hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s still one more way to really experience the difference cosmetic treatments can make without committing to a permanent change: the provisional restoration. Here, tooth-colored bonding material and other techniques are used to actually create the new smile \u2014 temporarily. This gives you time to \u201clive with it,\u201d and see if the proposed changes work for you. If everything goes well with the provisional work, the permanent restoration is guaranteed to please.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


So if you want holiday treats, get out the cookie cutter \u2014 but if you’re looking for a smile that’s uniquely yours, and one that enhances your own individual appearance\u2026 call our office<\/a> and ask about a smile design consultation. You can learn more in the Dear Doctor<\/em> magazine articles \u201cGreat Expectations \u2014 Perceptions in Smile Design<\/a>\u201d and \u201cBeautiful Smiles by Design<\/a>.\u201d
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