Your Smile Is A Work Of Art

Answer: The Principle of Divine Proportion

DID YOU KNOW THAT HIGHLY SKILLED COSMETIC DENTISTS LIKE DRS. HAMMOND AND ELLIS use Leonardo da Vinci’s “Principle of Divine Proportion” when designing your engaging new smile? Beautiful smiles are proportioned to include consideration of many factors—including a patient’s age, lifestyle, and physical characteristics. There are also truisms associated with our teeth themselves—including the fact that teeth tend to get shorter with wear as we get older.

Much like an oil painter working on a canvas, Drs. Hammond and Ellis take their artistic inspiration and turn it into gorgeous smiles. In some cases, procedural and design techniques include tooth lengthening or shortening. Veneers are sometimes used to widen a patient’s teeth or broaden a smile. Crowns can bring subtle, yet completely new dimensions to facial proportions. It’s part art, and part science.

Just for fun, look in the mirror and ask yourself the following questions:

• Can I draw a vertical line from my pupil to a corner of my mouth?
• Does my face divide into thirds horizontally?
• Does the lower third of my face divide again into thirds (from nose to chin)?
• Does my face divide vertically into fifths (5 times the width of one eye)?

It’s really fun and amazing when you begin to notice mother nature’s “divine” and intricate connections to artistic principles.

Dr. Hammond adds, “Cosmetic dental procedures are absolutely worth the investment in altering or restoring the ideal proportions for your physical characteristics. There’s nothing more fulfilling for me personally, here in our practice, than witnessing the life-changing transformation that takes place for many of our patients through a smile makeover.”

If you’ve ever wondered what the impact would be in your life if you had a truly beautiful smile, come in and visit with us.

Chances are, after we’re finished, you’ll wonder why you waited so long.

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