Implementación del DSD en la planificación de tratamientos para la rehabilitación estética y funcional. Una revisión sistemática.

Abstract

Problem: With conventional planning techniques a good diagnosis can be made, however the patient does not always have the opportunity to visualize the final results and visual communication between professionals is not always the best. With the management of digital smile design (DSD), communication will be improved and the results will be successful. Objective: Investigate the benefits and criteria of the implementation of the DSD in the planning of treatments for aesthetic and functional rehabilitation. Materials and methods: Systematic review of analytical, descriptive, qualitative, non-experimental type and deductive method in the search of bibliography, based on articles up to 5 years old through metasearch engines such as Pubmed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library and Google Scholar and the article search platform of the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil. P.I.C.O.S. analysis was used. to get keywords. Results: It was established that DSD is an innovative tool since it allows the evaluation of the patient by applying the aesthetic parameters digitally through software which will allow the improvement of communication between the interdisciplinary team and with the patient. Discussion: C. Coachman in 2007 proposed the DSD protocol that is based on the analysis of intraoral and extraoral photographs of the patient through software. Meereis et al., and Fung et al., agree that there are great advantages over conventional methods in digital workflow with respect to DSD in dentistry. Conclusion: DSD optimizes the dental practice to obtain more precise results and thus achieve an ideal aesthetic and functional rehabilitation.