What is the goal of prosthodontic treatment?
To preserve what remains by supporting remaining teeth and providing a substitute for missing teeth
What are the three realms that you need to balance during prosthetic rehabilitation?
Occlusion, Esthetics, and Phonetics
T/F when doing a prosthetics case, only the teeth matter?
False- one needs to consider the dental composition, the dentofacial composition, and the facial composition. For example, you’re not going to put huge teeth in a baby mouth.
Where are the four vertical reference lines of the face?
Bridge of the nose
Philtrum
Face midline
Dental midline
What is the golden proportion?
1.618
What is symmetry in dentition?
Regularity in the arrangement of teeth
T/F- how light reflects off a tooth (what the person actually sees) and therefore the contours and line angles of the tooth contribute to perspective and illusion?
Truth
There are several esthetic components of a smile- in fact there are 9. What are they? Moo-hahaha!
- Lip line (can be high, moderate or low)
- Smile line (hypothetical curved line that follows your maxillary anterior teeth) (More pronounced in women as the smile line follows the curvature of the lower lip)
- Upper lip curvature
- Buccal corridor (according to Dr. Azer there needs to be one)
- Axial alignment and gradation
- Dominance
- Embrasures (form, symmetry, and progression)
- Dental morphology (contact areas, embrasures, texture)
- Gingival morphology (health, zenith, tissue and racial factor- do the papilla fill the embrasures? Has the gingiva receded at all? Etc.)
Diagnostic waxing is the process of developing what?
Process of developing intra and inter-arch relationships to establish crown contours and occlusal schemes for diagnostic purposes
Why is diagnostic waxing advantageous?
Optimum occlusion and contour are achieved before actual treatment. Can help with showing and explaining to the patient. Also important for making provisionals.
Natural teeth, in general, have _____ emergence profiles in the gingival third.
Straight
Besides an implant fixture integrating into bone, what else is necessary for a successful esthetic outcome?
A soft tissue complex in harmony with adjacent teeth.
