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Smile Design

Visual Communication

Smile Design Guidebooks are a wonderful tool used to communicate with your laboratory.  It is Frontier Dental Laboratories, Inc. opinion that these books should be used to communicate such things as surface texture, surface finish, translucency, etc.

Below are the smile design guidebooks recommended by Frontier. You may order these direct from us by calling Lissa Bisson, Director of Special Services at 800-790-3999 or by filling out the form below and we will contact you regarding payment information.



The patient's satisfaction with the outcome of esthetic treatment depends, in large measure, on the clinician's ability to understand the patient's desires and in turn to communicate effectively with the dental ceramist. Facilitation of this three-way communication is the purpose of this new clinical atlas that documents many years of collaborative work between a world-renowned clinician and educator and a master dental ceramist. This beautiful, full-color book presents patient objectives, treatment plans and outcomes, shade selection, and other elements of the smile design (ie, arrangement, brightness, character, and incisal effects) in a spare and straightforward style. For the patient, the book serves as a visual guide to various restorative treatment options and to methods for previewing the esthetic outcome of treatment; for the clinician, it is a communication guide to demonstrate the possible therapeutic approaches and to arrive at an understanding of the patient's preferences; and for the ceramist, it is a visual base for fully comprehending the desired smile composition, tooth shape, and nuances of shading. An indispensable adjunct to the practitioner's esthetic treatment armamentarium.



The purpose of this book is to present a simplified approach to esthetics, with the description of selected esthetic rules that can be used for simple and extensive restorative procedures. It includes a description of updated surgical procedures to restore esthetics in the periodontally compromised cases, tissue management, porcelain veneers, metal ceramic framework design, as well as a biologic approach to functional and esthetic occlusion.



With superior color illustrations, this clinician-technician team offers principles and methods on how to achieve the best possible results. Learn how the restorative dentist works not only with the dental technician, but with the periodontist and the orthodontist. As clear as it is comprehensive, this book will be invaluable to the general dentist, the specialist, and the laboratory technician.



The new edition of the Smile Guide completely updates this classic reference tool. In 1989, Dr. Dorfman designed several illustrated guides to assist patients with smile selection, providing doctors and laboratories an effective way to communicate for the best aesthetic result. In keeping with the original, the new Smile Guide format offers patients, doctors and labs an updated and systematic approach to smile design. Loaded with over 36 smiles to choose from, this new edition of the Smile Guide is one of the most extensive sets of smile illustrations that both assist patients in visualizing perfect treatment results as well as providing doctors and labs the communication tools to guarantee it.



A Catalog of different shapes of anterior teeth for patient input and lab communication. Avoid dissatisfaction by involving patients in this major decision. Great tools for laboratory communication. A must for the aesthetic practice.



A beautifully photographed hardback book illustrating clinical examples of natural teeth. Contents include examples of anteriors and posteriors, surface texture and luster, characterization, shape and contour, arrangement and gingival contours of anterior and posterior teeth.