This exquisite new book combines the latest approaches to esthetic treatment by the world’s top clinicians in prosthodontics, orthodontics, periodontics, dental technology, and plastic surgery. Lavishly illustrated, it offers a multidisciplinary perspective on diagnosis, treatment planning, integrating procedures for many common clinical situations. Specialists and general practitioners alike will learn much from this book’s multidisciplinary perspective on esthetic treatment.

1,167 pp; 1,110 illus;

Orthodontics
      Introduction
      Vincent Kokich Sr
      Dynamic Smile Visualization and Quantification
      David Sarver/Marc Ackerman
      Interdisciplinary Approach to Missing Maxillary Central Incisors
      Bjorn Zachrisson/Sverker Toreskog
      Interdisciplinary Management of Congenitally Missing Lateral Incisors
      Vincent Kokich Jr/Greggory Kinzer
      Creating a Beautiful Smile
      Richard G. Alexander
      Adult Orthodontics
      Didier Fillion
      Nonsurgical Treatment of Anterior Open Bite with Lingual Orthodontics
      Silvia Geron
      Space Closure with Lingual Orthodontics
      Rafi Romano

Periodontics
      Introduction
      David Garber
      All About the Smile
      André Saadoun
      Preservation of the Interimplant Papilla
      Cobi Landsberg
      Esthetics at the Periodontal-Restorative Interface
      Eric Van Dooren
      Soft Tissue Management: A Microsurgical Approach
      Hannes Wachtel et al

Dental Technology
      Introduction
      John McLean
      New Approaches to Shade Communication
      Nicola Pietrobon et al
      Proper Material Selection
      Pinhas Adar
      Esthetics: Illusions and Reality
      Klaus Müterthies

Plastic Surgery
      Introduction
      Ivo Pitanguy
      Facial and Perioral Rejuvenation
      Michael Scheflan
      Esthetic Rhinoplasty
      Gilbert Aiach

The word “art” embraces a myriad of facets. Although art is in the eyes of the beholder, it has some consensual rules. Art has cultural influences, fashion influences; art engenders adoration and aspiration; some see it as beauty while others remain indifferent. A perception of art evokes the combination of all human senses. Art is not something we ignore.

Coining the title The Art of the Smile was already suggestive of a compound entity. The “smile” clearly incorporates three components—the teeth, the lips, and the gums; but many other less-obvious elements are also involved, such as sizing, color matching, texture, and lighting.

Many patients and clinicians seek guidelines as to what the perfect smile should look like, how it should be designed, and whether we should attempt to standardize the individual smile at all. Yet the smile is one of the most appealing attributes of our personality, and it can open so many doors that people today are prepared to invest enormous amounts of money and effort to improve their smiles, no less than they do with other parts of their bodies and their images.

Dentistry in the last half century is no longer a profession conducted only by general dentists. Instead, it is shared by specialists who spend most of their professional lives researching and improving their specialty.

This book attempts to merge five distinct disciplines that deal with the smile: prosthodontics, orthodontics, periodontics, dental technology, and plastic surgery. The uniqueness of this book is its international characteristic. Each of its distinguished contributors is a world-renowned expert, having published countless articles and books and delivered lectures around the world presenting his or her point of view on the subject. When approached to contribute to The Art of the Smile, they were all asked to consider the team approach that is so essential for treating patients nowadays.

Each chapter will give clinicians, regardless of their specialties—and even lay readers—the most recent update of the diagnosis to treatment of numerous clinical cases. Each one presents a different approach, a different diagnosis, various treatment plans, but they all demonstrate outstanding clinical results.

I have no doubt that this book will be a requirement in every dental clinic or dental faculty around the word, if not by virtue of its contributors, then for the greatest gift of all, the “art of the smile.”

My sincere thanks to all of the contributors for their enormous effort and for their congenial, amicable cooperation during the long period of producing this book. I thank the publisher who put his faith in this huge project and gave me a free hand in choosing contributors and in editing the chapters.

Special thanks to my father, a great dentist himself, who gave me my boundless ambition and motivation; to my loving and supportive wife; and to my devoted personal assistant.

Edited by Rafi Romano
Associate Editors: Nitzan Bichacho and Bernard Touati

“I highly recommend this book to all specialists and general dentists wishing to improve smiles. Its arrival is timely to cater to the booming interest in cosmetic dentistry. The standard of color diagrams and photographs and printing is wonderful.”
Geoff Wexler
Australian Dental Association Victorian Branch Newsletter June 2007