Designing perfect smiles for each sex

Once we have understood that all the phases of the restorative process are important we can focus on the design of an esthetic smile for you. We can check many fashion magazines with models with perfect smiles, but we do not have to stick to duplicating what is considered “perfect”.

The smile definitely has sexual connotations: It depends on the sex of the patient, so we have to analyze it according to that. Just by looking at the teeth (the entire mouth, actually), we can tell if it belong to a man or a woman.
For instance, a smile with dominant dental and lateral teeth, small incisors and straight angles, belong to a man.

In women, the predominant teeth are the central ones, leaving the laterals a bit relegated, and the incisors are accentuated because the angles are rounded. This is what makes women’s smile softer.

These features, proper of each sex, can not be exchanged, because the result would be a smile that does not go at all with the patient’s face.