Digital Smile Design (DSD) Practice Flashcards

Vocabulary-style flashcards covering the definitions, protocols, and clinical applications of Digital Smile Design based on the course transcript.

Digital Smile Design (DSD)

A multipurpose tool used for diagnosis, communication, marketing, and treatment predictability in dentistry.

Predictability

One of the three core areas DSD improves, alongside diagnosis and communication.

DSD Diagnostic Recording

The process of recording a patient using both intraoral and extraoral images to analyze facial and dental characteristics.

Digital Mock-up

An aesthetic simulation created before treatment to motivate patients and improve the visualization of final results.

Marketing Tool

A description of DSD's role in motivating skeptical patients or those who do not yet trust the clinician's work.

Four Dimensions of Control

The four factors essential for DSD success: function, shape, biology, and aesthetics.

Key Information Transfer

The process of sending facial and dental midlines, reference lines, and incisal edge position to the dental technician.

Restorative DSD First Step

The treatment phase that often begins with orthodontic treatment once tooth contours are established.

Evaluation Tool

A function of DSD that allows for the comparison of before and after photos, referred to as transitions.

Photography Protocol First Step

The recording of facial information through extraoral photographs.

Facial Information Components

Diagnostic data including the mid-facial line, horizontal reference plane (bipupillary line), and smile width.

Oral Information

DSD data focusing on tooth shape, size, layout, and color.

Enlarged Image Step

An analysis step used specifically to visualize the deviation of the interincisal line.

White and Pink Aesthetics

A term referring to the combined evaluation of dental and gingival aesthetics.

Feldspathic Veneers

The type of ceramic restorations described as being made based on DSD protocols.

3D Mock-up

A simulation performed with high efficiency and knowledge of anatomical characteristics.

Anterior Cases

The specific area of dentistry where DSD is especially useful for managing different tooth shapes.