Digital smile design is digital procedure that helps to create and project a new smile design by using pre-visualization and attaining a simulation of the ultimate result of the proposed treatment. A clinician can use Digital smile designing tool (DSD) when a patient wishes to attain a favorable smile, but he/she is skeptical about undertaking the treatment procedure.

The process involves a design created digitally that involves participation of the patients and customizing a smile design as per the needs and desires of the patient that complements with the morpho psychological characteristics of the patient. This increases their confidence in the process and better acceptance of the anticipated treatment. The ease of the process is enticing to the patients. The process can be edited easily and can be undone at any time to achieve the final design. This helps to balance patient’s aesthetics and functional needs.

The benefits of digital smile design:

• Improves communication
• Enhances treatment predictability
• Permits careful analysis of the patient’s facial and dental characteristics that may have gone unnoticed
• Diagnostic or photographic cast-based evaluation procedures