Hollywood Smile

Front teeth produced by using the “golden ratio” result in great admiration by patients almost all the time. Facial beauty cannot be evaluated as a whole without incorporating the lips and teeth. So, before any intervention is performed on soft tissues, the bone structure underneath these soft tissues should also be fixed. Again, a complete facial beauty may not be achieved where only the fixing of teeth is considered as far as dental aesthetics is concerned. All these interconnecting factors can actually be explained based on the golden rule.(*)

Application of Golden Ratio on Teeth and Face

Everyone would desire to have a nice smile for sure. To have a “nice smile”, there should be a logical ratio between the teeth color, form as well as the lips and the face. For instance, teeth produced for women having rounder shapes, the incisal edges of two frontal teeth being visible under the lips, even while at rest, would give a more feminine appearance. For male patients, canines are designed sharper and incisors more square-like and all these would affect the appearance and first impression.

Many patients and dentists have admitted that a more aesthetic result can be achieved in dentistry if the teeth which are going to be exposed and to what extent during smiling is calculated with the golden ratio. At the laboratory stage, these factors should be studied on the impressions prepared by using the measurements obtained from the patient and they should be tested carefully before being implemented on the teeth.

For calculation of the widths of upper incisor teeth which determine the smile line, allowing a visibility rate of 1.6 for the 1st incisor, 1 for the 2nd one and 0.6 for the canine tooth on frontal posture of the patient yields quite pleasant results. However, regardless of the rate or ratio being used, since patients’ expectations can differ so much; we, as Istanbul Dental Clinics, can never say these dental techniques are perfectly correct for every lower face (lips-teeth and chin point). Merely, it is very important to use these treatments and clinical methods in general as initial criteria.

Although mathematical and geometrical measures such as the golden ratio are significant/valid, we can not not decide about the beauty of a poem or a musical piece by using numbers and measurements, and it would be just as wrong to evaluate physical beauty using such fixed patterns as well.