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A women is a woman from her finger tips to her smile and a man from his fists to his smiles. Keeping a woman a woman and man a man, after each looses the natural teeth has become so important a problem that modern day thinking emphasizes that a dentist must be an artist and a sculptor with highly developed perceptive qualities.
A hardened smile for the vigorous male can be achieved by rotating the lateral incisors mesially.
DENTOGENICS INTERPRETATION OF THE PERSONALITY FACTOR In the case of normal social activity, the smile is the primary objective personalities of a human being. Mere sex identity could not possibly complete our requirements for a dentogenic restoration as we come to comprehend the reason for the differences in feelings and appearances. We wonder how popular television and movies or even magazines would be if all people were reduced to one male and one female type. So regardless of whether this face and figure of ours are our fame and fortune, nature has endowed us with something for more important, the dignity and satisfaction of being an individual with a personality of our own. Interpretation of personality factor depends on our manipulation of tooth shapes (molds) tooth colors, tooth position, and the matrix (visible denture base).
Personality Spectrum:
To provide a working tool for dentists as regards the personality factor in dentogenic restorations, they have conceived the personality spectrum, which has color-band or vertical rainbow hues extending from red to violet.
Personality spectrum.
The rugged, male extrovert could only fit into the bold, red end of the spectrum. The shrinking violet type female could only belong at the right end of the scale and the medium, normal type, male or female, would fit somewhere in between. The three divisions of personality spectrum are: Delicate type (green to violet band) - 5% Meaning fragile,fraile, the opposite of robust. Medium type (orange to yellow band) - 80% Meaning normal, moderately robust, healthy and of intelligent appearance.
The vigorous type (red to purple) - 15% Meaning the opposite of delicate, hard and aggressive in appearance, the extreme male Most vigorous patients are men and most delicate patients are women.
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DENTOGENICS INTERPRETATION OF THE AGE FACTOR "Age is the most terrible misfortune that can happen to any man other evils will mend, this is everyday getting worse". In each individual, age changes take place through the entire body, and the teeth are no exception. To arrange teeth in disharmony with these changes is in a bad taste, and final result will be unnatural. "Not only is there beauty in advanced age as well as in youth, but also there is an additional quality of dignity". Dignity can be attained only through the experiences supplied by time itself. The maintenance of the illusive quality of dignity must be the responsibility of the prosthodontist.
Dotted line shows the original appearance of the incisal edges of artificial teeth; solid line shows the incisal wear to be incorporated for a particular patient.
The changing cuspid tip with age. Left youth; Center, middle age; right, advanced age.