smile design
before smile design
BEFORE
  after smile design
AFTER
before smile design
BEFORE
  after smile design
AFTER

Suggested Protocol

1st Appointment - take upper and lower impressions using material that can be
recast several times.
Take facebow readings and record the ICP using a suitable bite registration material. Stick bites can be included to show horizontal and vertical symmetry,and
photographs taken.
Complete Smile Design / Wax Up lab sheet and dispatch to dental laboratory.

Dental Laboratory - several sets of study models are cast, models are mounted on Denar Articulator and the diagnostic wax up is created to your prescription. Reduction guides and a stent to make the provisionals can be constructed from the wax up.

2nd Appointment - teeth are prepared using reduction guides and provisionals constructed with stent or impression of wax up.
Dispatch to dental laboratory. Patient asked to attend approx. one week.

3rd Appointment - for review of provisionals; adjustments should be made at this stage, an impression taken post-adjustment and dispatched to the laboratory.

Laboratory - final restorations are constructed using the model of the adjusted provisionals as a guide.

4th Appointment - fitting of the final restorations.

smile design worksheet

Establishing a close working relationship between Technician and Surgeon is at the heart of successful Smile Design. Over the years we have learnt, along with our clients, to use the protocols that will give us predictable and aesthetically pleasing results every time.

Using the principals taught by the British and American Academies of Cosmetic Dentistry, our use of the diagnostic wax up is key to this process, as patient communicator, for preparation guidance and for provisionalization.

smile design
Articulated Diagnostic Wax
Up / Prep Guides, per unit
£ 30.00
Smile Design Restorations
£175.00
     TAD Dental Laboratory, Weighbridge House, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1JF