How Do You Fix a Gummy Smile

Causes of the gummy smile

Remedies for gummy smile

Being a clear source of anxiety and embarrassment, many people look for solutions to reduce the gummy smile, or at least to improve this condition of the teeth. This is a fairly common request among our patients. To solve or improve a gummy smile we have two treatment options:

Surgical solution

Surgery can be chosen to correct a gummy smile. In this case, the operation involves lowering the gum and the underlying bone through a surgical procedure performed under local anesthesia.

By removing the bone around the teeth with rotary instruments, eliminating any protrusions and repositioning the gingival tissues, it then becomes necessary to first devitalize the dental elements and then make crowns in these elements, which are then encapsulated.

Another surgical solution to solve the gum smile intervenes on the mucosa of the central teeth and on the muscles of the upper lip. This combination, however, concerns cosmetic surgery.

As you can imagine, there is no single treatment plan: the type of intervention to be implemented always depends on the patient's initial condition.

Non-surgical solution

The gummy smile can be reduced through Orthodontics which can also be lingual without brackets. This technique involves resolving the gummy smile simply by intruding the teeth, that is, bringing them "apparently" into the bone. In fact, when we move a tooth, both the bone and the gum follow it in the movement.

For this reason, it is possible to solve the problem of the gummy smile simply by moving the gum and bone upwards. If after this movement the teeth are not very visible or too short compared to the position of the lower lip, lithium disilicate veneers can be performed to lengthen them and improve their aesthetics.

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