Smylist dental smile design software
Dental Cad Solutions is the Australasian supplier of smile design Smylist software. Smylist is a world leading tool for dentists and prosthodontists to present a restorative treatment plan to the patient that is clear and easy to understand. Smylist is easy to use and understand yet contains powerful functionality including a massive library of smile design templates. The design process starts with a photo of the patients mouth that is imported into Smylist. From there Smylist guides you through all the steps of teeth alignment, gum adjustments, setting of tooth shades to produce an aesthetic and harmoniuos smile.
The Smylist software is supplied with training and support from Dental CAD Solutions.
Smile Design
During the last decade, the term ‘smile design’ has gradually become commonly used in the ever more popular aesthetic dentistry.
But what does smile design actually mean?
In the everyday language, the term ‘smile design’ is often used as the synonym of a dental treatment with aesthetic purposes. However, smile design is actually a process before the treatment starts:
Smile design is the planning and pre-visualization of the desired end result of an aesthetic dental treatment targeting a more harmonious state instead of the current disharmony, according the rules of facial, smile, tooth and gingival harmony and the individual needs of the patient, paying particular attention to the functional aspects and the feasibility.
A smile design is not simply based on the aesthetic sense of the dentist or the dental technician. Nowadays, the design procedure is a complex task, guided by closely interrelated facial, smile, tooth and gingival harmony aspects and rules, taking into consideration the properties specific to the patient’s age group.
Functional aspects:
Functionality should never be overridden by aesthetics. Besides aesthetic aspects, the functional requirements (i.e., the operating requirements of the teeth and the mandibular joint) should also be considered by the dentist to a maximal degree.
Feasibility:
Besides the principles of harmony and the ideas of the patient, the appropriate smile should be chosen with feasibility considerations taken fully into account.
There are several means of pre-demonstrating the different possibilities and the designed smile to the patient, but computer-assisted smile design is, without doubt, the most effective one.
Computer-assisted smile design can be performed by the dentist using a custom graphic design program or a special smile design software.
Modern dentist offices can provide the patients with the opportunity to view thousands of possible dentures quite realistically represented in their own facial photos, and thus, to choose—staying within the limits of feasibility—a smile type, together with the dentist, that suits the principles of harmony and the individual preferences. The printed or saved smile design images can be given to the patients to help his/her decision.
Individual needs of the patient:
The dentist should not ignore the opinion of the patient. In most cases, the instructions, taste and style of the patient all contribute to the creation of a truly harmonious smile.
Dr. Maria Csillag
Dr Csillag is the inventor of Smylist software and the W.A.C.P. theory behind it. Dr Csillag gives regular seminars around the world where she teaches the concepts of W.A.C.P. (White Aesthetic Conscious Pre-planning technique)
