Dr. Ritul Agarwal

Experienced Prosthodontist with over 10 years of experience in private practice, seeking to become a part of a multidisciplinary practice to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to patients and provide them quality treatments like full mouth rehabilitations, veneers and a smile that they can proudly carry

The constant search for a natural, harmonious, and pleasant smile clearly reflects the fact that there are more-demanding and better-informed patients. An accurate knowledge of facial topography and the dynamics of how the patient performs their basic oral functions – such as speaking, swallowing, and chewing – is essential and must form the basis of any analysis of intraoral aspects. Several groups around the world have developed laboratory and clinical protocols in order to predict, with a high degree of accuracy, what the result of treatment will be for the patient (i.e. for completely edentulous patients or those who will receive porcelain-cemented restorations on natural teeth).

The presentation will discuss the very basics of smile designing and understanding the psychology behind it. The mental evaluation will be helping in forming the blueprint of the smile and provide a patient centric result which is predictable and beautiful. The presentation will also be discussing the neglected concepts of gingival health around veneers and also buccal corridors. Each smile is constructed for a particular patient and is not a copy paste . I will be focussing more basics and help dentists provide the best results without having access to all modern technology.

The use of facial photographs allows a better identification of potential discrepancies associated with esthetic sites. Soft-tissue esthetics represents a constant challenge for the clinician and its accomplishment requires a differentiated preoperative individualized treatment plan, followed by a meticulous execution of each of the proposed steps in order to limit potential errors.