A 17-year-old female attended the clinic with aesthetic complaints and a request for smile improvement. The patient's primary complaint concerned the ‘gaps’ between her maxillary incisors and canines...

There are three categories of ‘dental aesthetic imperfections’ for which the patient may seek dento-facial aesthetic intervention; these relate to anomalies in tooth colour, shape and position.4 With...

Facial aesthetics forms the frame of the smile with the lips and surrounding soft tissues, which vary from patient to patient and can change depending on various positions of speech and when smiling...

The diagnostic criteria for BDD are outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Diseases, version 4.0.1 The criteria are:.