DIGITALLY EMPOWERED ESTHETIC DENTISTRY “FUNCTIONALLY AND BIOLOGICALLY DRIVEN DIGITAL SMILE DESIGN”

INTRODUCTION The evolution of digital dentistry has resulted in improvements in esthetic standards, beauty, and dental harmony, with the objective of enhancing clinical performance through digital simulations (1). Digital Smile Design (DSD) is a powerful diagnostic tool that could improve treatment analysis, result predictability, professional patient management, and multidisciplinary communication between specialists (1, 2). A proper treatment strategy is based mainly on the harmony of white (teeth) and pink (gingiva) esthetics. Therefore, a multidisciplinary approach using digital dentistry is essential for an accurate esthetic diagnosis and to attain an adequate treatment plan in order to achieve satisfactory results and restore oral health pragmatically and conservatively (3). METHODOLOGY A female patient of 27 years reported to the Department of Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Alexandria with the chief complaint of bad esthetics of the anterior teeth. On Clinical examination patient had multiple discolored old anterior composite restorations leading to an unsatisfied smile and was planned to receive esthetic rehabilitation (Figure 1).