Abstract
Dental composition is an important factor for an esthetically pleasant smile as well as to achieve harmony with the patient gingiva, lips, and face in diastema cases. Teeth size, shape, and proportions greatly affect the esthetic concept and smile. Due to altered tooth size, proportions, and sometimes morphology, median or polydiastemas may cause anterior esthetic concerns for the patients, and the creation of naturally pleasant and stable restoration generally requires a multidisciplinary treatment approach in these kinds of tooth size discrepancies. Therefore, the clinician needs to evaluate the tooth size, form, and intra and/or intertooth proportions as well as occlusion in addition to the previous clinical examinations to achieve a natural and an esthetic final outcome.
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Erdemir, U., Yucel, T., Yildiz, E., Cakan, D.G., Sayinsu, K. (2016). Dental Analysis. In: Erdemir, U., Yildiz, E. (eds) Esthetic and Functional Management of Diastema. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24361-0_8
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