The dazzling effect of the Hollywood smile on the red carpet has become a prominent feature in Hollywood. Celebrities and A-listers from various backgrounds and of different ages, dominate the screens and scenes of movies with their gloving pearly whites and glamorous smiles. The lens the media focuses on the Hollywood smile brought intense attention on the impact of teeth. The significance smiles have in portraying your character and accentuating your charisma is monumental.
Unlike the several trends that society imposes on us, having a perfect set of teeth impacts our life. Teeth, aside from their function, serve as an indicator of our general physical and mental health. Owing to the significance of our teeth on our social life, cosmetic dentistry generally, and Hollywood smile specifically, have skyrocketed in popularity in recent years.
What Is A Hollywood Smile?
Hollywood smile refers to the ideal designer smile most celebrities and models glove. It constitutes specific attributes of pearly, bright, aligned, and gap-free whites. The Hollywood smile procedure is a simple procedure that can fix an extensive array of dental impairments. The aim of this smile is to get an ideal set of teeth and a glowing grin.
The technology relies solely on dental veneers, shell-like structures made of varying materials that apply to the facade of teeth. The function of dental veneers is to eclipse the present mishaps and reinvent the smile. For instance, Dental issues that a Hollywood smile procedure can fix are dental discolorations, staining, deterioration, and gaps. All the above problems can have adverse consequences on self-esteem and self-image.
How A Hollywood Smile Can Impact Your Social Life
The quality of our teeth reads like an open book for strangers that reveals the intricate details, that are often false, of our personal physical and mental states. For instance, we subconsciously associate gaps and lost teeth with disease and malnutrition. We translate dental cavities and discoloration to poor hygiene. In the social world, as unjust as it may seem, one cannot get by with a bad smile.
The world has worked that way for millions of years. Generally, and science vouches, a poor diet, mental state, and environment will eventually take its toll on your teeth. The years of evolutionary advantage helped construct our mentality to scrutinize our partners for a better gene pool and higher survival rates for future generations. So, the pearly whites have become to be a reliable metric for health.
Implants and Hollywood Smile
In our day to day practice, the Hollywood Smile is most commonly achieved using implants, since most patients do not have a sufficient number of teeth, and especially not enough healthy teeth for a veneer, crown, or bridge produced Hollywood Smile. First, the roots and teeth designated for extraction are pulled out because they will not be usable in the final work. This means that the patient will be partially or totally without teeth before placing implants into sockets where the teeth used to be. You can read more about the procedure of creating Hollywood Smile using implants in the following section.
Esthetically, the best effect is gained if the patient has, which is often not the case, their own teeth because the transition between the crowns or veneers and the gums is then the most natural. When it is estimated that the bone and gum defects are substantial, we make use of pink porcelain as a camouflage and to imitate gums, which is almost always the case in complete toothlessness where the level of bone