title: Treatment planning and smile design using composite resin.
abstract: Recent advances in dental materials and adhesive protocols have expanded the restorative procedures available to today's clinicians. Used in combination with proper treatment planning, these innovations enable dental professionals to provide enhanced aesthetic care that achieves the increasing expectations of their patients. Using a case presentation, this article will document the steps required to harmoniously integrate smile design, material selection, and patient communication that are involved in the provisional of aesthetic dental care.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This article discusses the utilization of composite resin as a tool to enhance the patient's smile. Upon reading this article, the reader should: Become familiar with a smile-enhancing technique which can be completed in one office visit. Realize the benefits that intraoral composite mockups offer in terms of prototyping and confirming patient satisfaction.
authors.affiliation: info@drmarus.com
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Marus
mesh_terms: D000134:Acid Etching, Dental; D000328:Adult; D003142:Communication; D003188:Composite Resins / Q000737:chemistry; D003481:Cuspid / Q000473:pathology; D001840:Dental Bonding; D003764:Dental Materials / Q000737:chemistry; D003775:Dental Polishing; D017267:Dental Prosthesis Design; D003801:Dental Veneers; D003812:Dentist-Patient Relations; D003970:Diastema / Q000628:therapy; D004955:Esthetics, Dental; D005260:Female; D005881:Gingiva / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D006801:Humans; D007180:Incisor / Q000473:pathology; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D012904:Smiling; D014070:Tooth / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D019246:Tooth Preparation / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D003188:Composite Resins; D003764:Dental Materials