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Digital Smile Design

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A fundamental objective of smile design is the patient’s satisfaction. DSD is a tool which can be used design and modify the smile of patients digitally and help them to visualize it beforehand by creating and presenting a digital mock-up of their new smile design before the actual treatment. The chapter will focus on the principles of smile design, namely, the facial and dental analysis involved in digital smile design along with digital shade analysis. It will also review the aspects of digital smile designing along with advantages, limitations and future prospects.

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  1. Department of Prosthodontics, Inderprastha Dental College, Ghaziabad, India

    Suprabha Hooda & Geeta Paul

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Hooda, S., Paul, G. (2021). Digital Smile Design. In: Jain, P., Gupta, M. (eds) Digitization in Dentistry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65169-5_13

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