Choose your smile

Now dentists can make your smile beautiful, writes Phiroze Khareghat

An attractive smile can sparkle, charm and entice.

Side by side with medical tourism for foreigners, cosmetic tourism is also flourishing in India. Of the various types of cosmetic tourism, one type of beauty treatment that has become popular is the one called ‘Design your smile’. In all metropolitan cities of India, you can have access to this cosmetic correction. Best part is that in India, designing your smile costs only one-third of the costs in western countries and Japan.

A beautiful smile can dazzle and sparkle, charm and entice. It says ‘let’s talk, I care and cheer up’. A smile communicates your feelings about yourself and others. Like the lines, colours and shapes in a painting, your teeth should work together to produce a pleasing effect. A bright smile projects warmth, approval, or self-confidence.

Today your dentist has the artistic and dental skills necessary to restore or touch-up your teeth to produce a more pleasing smile — one that projects the image you want to communicate in your personal and professional lives. Using comprehensive cosmetic dentistry treatments such as porcelain veneers, porcelain crowns, composite bonding and teeth whitening with artistry and skill, he will create for you the beautiful smile you have always dreamed of.

If you are planning on smile designing for a particular occasion such as a wedding, company board meetings/reunion, plan much in advance. Try to have the work completed two weeks prior to your occasion. Otherwise, this may affect what options can be done to enhance your smile.

The first thing to do is to decide on what type of smile you want, depending on your physical attributes, your career and your age. After the dentist determines your face shape, he and you should assess what kind of smile suits you and your personality. We all have a certain image we desire to portray—an image that reflects how we view ourselves. Dental cosmetic surgeons have classified the smiles under the following categories: young smile, mature smile, feminine smile, masculine smile, etc. For example, feminine smiles emphasise curves. Cosmetic dentists will contour and shape your teeth to have a more rounded, feminine look. For masculine smiles one’s teeth veneers have to be more angular than a feminine one, making your teeth appear strong and square. The best cosmetic dentist will devote a lot of their time during the assessment process—a great one-on-one session that gives you the opportunity to talk about your dream smile.

During your consultation, the cosmetic dentist will evaluate several factors in order to customise a treatment plan that will give you your dream smile. Factors include the shape of your lips, your facial features, jaw movement and natural gum line. —MF