1.
Horizontal Symmetry:
Draw an imaginary horizontal
line through the centre of both your pupils and
another horizontal line between the tips of your
canine teeth. Ideally, these two horizontal lines
should be parallel. Often, one side slopes down.
2. Vertical Symmetry:
Draw
an imaginary vertical line through the centre of
your face. This mid-line should run through the
centre of your eyes, nose and chin. Ideally, the
mid-line should also run through your two central
incisors thus making the central incisors a mirror
image of each other.
3. Smile Width:
Ideally, a wide
smile will show your first molar to first molar
tooth. Although if you have a narrow smile you
may only see the front six teeth from canine to
canine.
4. Smile
Line:
Draw an imaginary
curve along the bottom of your upper teeth and
compare it to an imaginary curve of your lower
lip. Ideally, your smile should be curved in order
to look younger.
5. Gum Line:
Draw an imaginary
curve along the top of your upper teeth. Ideally,
only the pink triangular parts of gum between the
teeth show. However, some people show a lot more
gum or the gum that shows is uneven giving an irregular
gum line.
6. The
Golden Proportion:
This
special proportion was discovered by the Greeks
and is found in many areas of nature. Ideally,
the widths of each of the front teeth compared
to the next follows this special proportion.
7. Tooth
Proportion:
Ideally
the width of a tooth should be approximately 80%
of the length. However for patients that wear/grind
their teeth, this ration is closer to 1:1 as the
teeth have shortened and become squarer. This is
a way to measure exactly how much tooth has been
lost over the years and is often used to rebuild
edges of teeth to their ideal proportions and perfect
smile.
8. Embrasure
Space:
These are
the little triangular like spaces between the tips
of the front teeth. Without embrasure spaces, the
teeth would look like flat piano keys with no character
to them. Ideally, the embrasure spaces should be
smallest between the two central incisors and gradually
become larger as you examine teeth further into
the mouth. An ideal feminine smile tends to have
more definite round embrasures.
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