Transcript excerpt of a recorded conversation (podcast/video) where Dr. Victoria Rose Veytsman and another speaker discuss aging as a multifactorial, not purely negative, process and its effects on the smile. They highlight intrinsic and extrinsic factors (genetics, self-care, time), and describe dental/dentofacial aesthetics and proactive/preventative approaches to smile makeovers addressing volume loss, staining, and chipping.
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I love that we're talking about aging as this multifactorial thing and not necessarily as a negative. There are so many.
Intrinsic.
Factors that come along with aging. There's of course, the natural aging process, there's genetics, there's the way we take care of ourselves. I love that we're talking about aging as this multifactorial thing and not necessarily as a negative. Time will pass, and there are a lot of positive things that come along.
With aging process as well. We get further along in our careers and self.
Actualize.
More and start to reach our greatest potential. But when we talk about aging as it relates to.
The smile, the smile.
Really is one of the first places where aging shows up that can show up with loss of volume, staining, chipping. So what we try to do is be preventative and proactive and start to try to prevent.
Those things.
From progressing. It's definitely one of the things that we address when patients come in. Also in conjunction with that is dentofacial aesthetics. And dental facial aesthetics is basically how.
The smile relates to the rest of the face. So when we look at the smile and try to do a smile makeover.
We don't just look at a smile, we look at the entire face.