TOPIC: SELECTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF TEETH

🎯 KEY FACTS

🔹Denture aesthetics is defined as ‘the effect produced by a dental prosthesis that affects the beauty and attractiveness of the person’. 

🔹Space of Donders is the space that lies above the dorsum of the tongue and below the hard and soft palates when the mandible and tongue are in the rest position.

🔹 Silverman’s speaking space is the space that occurs between the incisal and/or occlusal surfaces of the maxillary and mandibular teeth during speech.

🔹 For most of the patients, the average speaking space is 1.5–3 mm.

🔹 Patients with class II occlusion have larger speaking space, i.e. 3–6mm.

🔹 Patients with class III occlusion have reduced speaking space, i.e., about 1 mm.