Love My Smile

Scanning

3D Digital scanning cameras using a combination of light, video, and laser technology, are used to capture precise specification and images of the customer’s teeth and jaw structure for both upper and lower arch.

A Smile Design Consultant, uses OP's state-of-the art digital scanners at a location most convenient to the customer - usually their home or work place. On request by the customer and/or under special circumstances, Scanning can also be carried out in a Partner Dental Clinic.

The digital scans captured are then processed using a sophisticated 3D software system that then creates an exact replica of the customer’s current tooth and jaw structure which can be translated using 3D printing technology into a physical mould of the customer’s teeth structure.

Smile Designing

Leveraging the digital scans and 3D printed physical replicas of customers teeth and jaw structure, the Smile Designing software under the guidance of an Orthodontic specialist, develops the end-state of the teeth and jaw structure. In addition, detailed steps are developed to create the various stages of smile correction by determining, among other things, the amount of tension (expansive force) and pressure (compressive force) is required for bone apposition and bone resorption to create the perfect alignment of each individual tooth in question.

In certain cases, where missing teeth need to be replaced, the Smile Designing software determines the perfect shape, size and alignment of the permanent crown required to fill the gap created by missing tooth. Often a combination of orthodontic forces, filling in the gap created by missing tooth, interproximal reduction and even removal of certain teeth all form part of the smile correcting strategy.

The 3D Software then creates both a visual image of “before” and “after” and also detail stage wise correction process.

All Smile designing software calibration is carried out in a central computer and software laboratory.

Device Manufacturing & Delivery

The next step in the 5-Step smile designing process is the actual manufacture and delivery of the Smile Correcting Device. In the case of Invisible Aligners, the device takes the form of an invisible “plastic” material based aligner units that the customer can snap on over their teeth. In other cases, the device can be a night guard, crown, custom metal orthodontic brackets, etc. These devices are then delivered to the customer in their place of choosing. In some cases, the customer may request to forward the delivery of these devices to the “device-fitting” location which at times is a dental clinic where the fitting can be carried out under the direction of a dental specialist.

Fitting

Given that all smile correcting devices are custom-built for each customer, based on their particular / specific teeth and jaw structure, and smile correcting journey. For certain simple smile correction cases, the customer may do “self-fitting” at home using OP’s customer application and via video consults with an expert. However, in most cases, the customer chooses to get the fitting done in a special smile fitting center - often associated with a dental clinic. This provides for both convenient fitting process, some practical tips on how to use the device and in come cases periodontal insertion of components required for the device stability.

Review / Monitor

All smile correction procedures usually take days and often weeks. Most devices use natural body shaping and re-forming techniques - which are natural alignment, correction or healing of the tissue and bone structure around the teeth and jaw. Therefore, the last and final, and perhaps the most critical stage, of the smile designing process is Review and Monitoring. This stage is carried out using a combination of smartphone app-based video and interactive software and physical review of the device and teeth structures in the customer’s home or in a smile correcting center.