Anterior Aesthetic Restorations

A beautiful smile, the most interactive communication skill of a person, is created with pleasing inherent proportions to one another and a pleasing tooth arrangement in harmony with the gums, lips, and face of the patient. The consequences of unaesthetic anterior teeth in an individual are not only physical but also have an impact on the patient's quality of life. The aesthetic quality of a restoration is as important to the mental health of the patient as the biological and technical qualities of the restoration are to his physical or dental health. Sound knowledge of aesthetic restorative materials as well as the skills that are required in restoring anterior teeth aesthetically while keeping the patient's desires and expectations in mind is truly a great challenge for any dental practitioner. Advent of newer developments such as CAD/CAM technology, has enabled designing and fabrication of restorations in a much simpler and more accurate manner and has helped the dental practitioners in perfecting the art of aesthetically restoring anterior teeth.