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Esthetic and Phonetics in Complete Dentures: December 2011
Esthetic and Phonetics in Complete Dentures: December 2011
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AESTHETICS
AND PHONETICS
IN COMPLETE
DENTURE
II KeyWords
Complete denture, Aesthetics, Phonetics.
Oinicol Dentistry
White (1887) placed forward the temperamental establish his own proportion and remain consistent
while moving distally. 70% seems to move pleasing.
theory. This was a widely accepted theory. Factors
[25JContact area should show wear according to
considered were patient class, attitude and physical
appearance. Typal form theory was given by Williams age. Women tend to have ovoid form of teeth with
rounded incisal angles while man tends to have
in 1914. He said, 'face form of the patient is similar to
square tooth forms. There is no single method of
tooth form'. Many other theories and concepts were
put forward like Berry biometric method (1905), Write selection of the teeth yet developed/derived. Rather
photometric theory (1936), Anthropometric cephalic it should be clubbed in with one or more methods of
index method by Sears (1941) and many other until teeth selection. A research work was carried out by
Frush and Fisher, (1955-59) proposed the dentogenic the author on the validity of golden proportion for
selection of teeth and the conclusion was that more
concept. This concept was based on difference in sex,
personality and age.[B.15-19.21J number of females was in geometric progression
when compared to males.
Author characterization of a denture is an art and shall be can achieve the goal of a good prosthesis which is
performed artistically with the concerns of the patient both functionally and aesthetically acceptable to the
and side by side not overlooking the scientific facts. patient.