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<blockquote data-quote="filippos" data-source="post: 365201" data-attributes="member: 26724"><p>Well, that's why our profession is soo nice and soo challenging at the same time.</p><p>Shapes are countless.</p><p></p><p>I believe the best way to learn morphology is to study natural teeth. Select nice, natural teeth models, from cases worked or antagonists or whatever and study them. Just stand and observe them. Grab a mechanicical pencil and highlight the ridges, incisal edge, cervical part, the volumes,.the textures and every characteristic each tooth has. Do this for every model. Then repeat. And then, try to mimic the natural teeth. Wax them, carve into stone or soap or idk what else comes into your mind. The aim is guide your hand to craft what you saw before and master the knowledge you observed. This is what I basically do every time a nice natural dentition come into my hand.</p><p></p><p>Old teeth, actually are young teeth that aged through time and during their life, they got affected from the forces that appear in the mouth during mastication. Wear facets for example or loss of labial characteristic. If you exclude the color and shade changes, you can get a young tooth to old, just by removing volume from the correct parts. I mean that it's important to understand how time affects teeth and ages them. Then you can craft them easily and correct.</p><p>As far as I know, a bibliography relation between male and female teeth does not exist. But for sure, there is a racial relation for teeth. There are Asian, Caucasian and so on. Please correct me if I'm wrong, not sure about the male and female teeth.</p><p></p><p>Best way to pick a shape for a patient is a photo where you can see some teeth. If it's an old photo from a young age, just age the teeth as we told before. If not, the face shape can help, if it's round or ovoid etc. Also, teeth must match the age of the patient. Finally just ask them if you have no info. Any guideline can help.</p><p></p><p>I believe also working simultaneously on digital design and analog, practicing morphology on both, you can get the full pros, where each one will help you improve on the other way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="filippos, post: 365201, member: 26724"] Well, that's why our profession is soo nice and soo challenging at the same time. Shapes are countless. I believe the best way to learn morphology is to study natural teeth. Select nice, natural teeth models, from cases worked or antagonists or whatever and study them. Just stand and observe them. Grab a mechanicical pencil and highlight the ridges, incisal edge, cervical part, the volumes,.the textures and every characteristic each tooth has. Do this for every model. Then repeat. And then, try to mimic the natural teeth. Wax them, carve into stone or soap or idk what else comes into your mind. The aim is guide your hand to craft what you saw before and master the knowledge you observed. This is what I basically do every time a nice natural dentition come into my hand. Old teeth, actually are young teeth that aged through time and during their life, they got affected from the forces that appear in the mouth during mastication. Wear facets for example or loss of labial characteristic. If you exclude the color and shade changes, you can get a young tooth to old, just by removing volume from the correct parts. I mean that it's important to understand how time affects teeth and ages them. Then you can craft them easily and correct. As far as I know, a bibliography relation between male and female teeth does not exist. But for sure, there is a racial relation for teeth. There are Asian, Caucasian and so on. Please correct me if I'm wrong, not sure about the male and female teeth. Best way to pick a shape for a patient is a photo where you can see some teeth. If it's an old photo from a young age, just age the teeth as we told before. If not, the face shape can help, if it's round or ovoid etc. Also, teeth must match the age of the patient. Finally just ask them if you have no info. Any guideline can help. I believe also working simultaneously on digital design and analog, practicing morphology on both, you can get the full pros, where each one will help you improve on the other way. [/QUOTE]
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