Bengaluru dentists are all smiles as more professionals opt for perfect look

BENGALURU: Some opt for it before an appraisal meeting in office, others do it to boost confidence. Undergoing procedures to get that perfect smile seem to have caught the fancy of several professionals in the city.
Experts say the trend is no longer restricted to those from fashion, movie and hospitality industries. IT professionals, lawyers, teachers, television anchors and even doctors and nurses are getting the makeover to flaunt the perfect smile.
Techie Shreya S, 36, visited an orthodontist for a procedure, which she believed could boost her confidence before her appraisal meeting, while Ananya, 26, an aspiring TV anchor from Mumbai, developed a lisp because of the gaps between her teeth and needed it to be corrected.
Orthodontists claim an increase in business in the range of 25% to 400%. Dr Ranjani Rao, chief consultant and implantologist at V2 Group of Dental Center, says: “In 2014, we saw 3-4 patients a month, we now get 15-20.” Dr Trivikram Rao from All Smiles Dental Clinic says there’s a 71% increase — from 48 a month in 2014 to 96 now.
“We get people from different sectors and many are young women and men seeking a smile design before marriage,” says Dr Deepak P Kulkarni, orthodontist at Spurthi Dental Clinic who sees at least 12 such cases every month.
Such patients generally need correction in gaps between teeth, gummy smiles, discoloured or stained teeth to mild crowding, crooked teeth, one or more missing teeth, black shadow and several other issues.
From using invisible braces to lingual ones and undergoing orthodontic surgeries, several procedures are used for the same. Apart from these, detailed diagnosis, treatment plans and a visual treatment objective (VTO) — a morphed video of how the patient will look after the final results — is done prior to initiating the procedure, Dr Ranjani said.