Series Preface

Esthetic dentistry is a complex subject and in many ways it requires different

skills from those required for disease-focussed clinical care. The team that have
created this series have shared a vision that a broad range of additional skills
are needed.
The first volume provided useful, readily applicable information and sets the
scene for those wishing to go further into ethetic techniques. It included
techniques for smile makeovers using readily available procedures in general
practice.
This volume covers the techniques applicable to more detailed patient assess-
ment, advanced smile design and illustrates some of the more complex methods
available to experienced clinicians where intervention is accepted.
Volume 3 which follows will provide in some ways an alternative approach to
this present volume. While attitudes vary one increasing concern to many clini-
cians is the amount of tooth reduction and destruction carried out for esthetic
change alone while the world moves towards MI, Minimal Intervention, in rela-
tion to oral and many other diseases. This series should be seen as a whole,
challenging your thinking and approach to this growing subject area, particu-
larly by showing different approaches to clinical situations. We no longer need
to rely on a single formula to provide a smile make-over, selling only one treat-
ment modality where both the dentist and their patients are losing out; the
patient losing valuable irreplaceable enamel as well as their future options.
As the series progresses you can discover in greater depth the many clinical
techniques to practice a range of effective procedures in esthetic dentistry.

Professor Brian J. Millar BDS FDSRCS PhD FHEA

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