Importance of dental aesthetics in patients
Aesthetics is considered a branch of philosophy that studies a special type of experience that certain objects manage to. These objects capable of awakening aesthetic experiences in us are called aesthetic objects and can be of two types: the artistic object, artificially created by the human being as a painting, a symphony, a theatrical representation, a rehabilitation of the dentition and the natural object that is not human creation such as a flower, a landscape, a face or teeth.
Whatever their nature, what they have in common is the feeling that produce us since they affect us differently from how the other prosaic objects that surround us do and value them with emotional and intellectual involvement.
The aesthetic experience includes all the sensations and ideas that are displayed inside us when we listen to a musical piece, we read a poem, we contemplate a painting, we see a smile or a dentition.
But throughout history the conception of beauty has been changing and specifically in classical antiquity, an objectivist vision predominated: beauty constitutes a quality that beautiful objects possess for harmony. In classical Greece there were ideal beauty models that established which should be the proportions and measures of a beautiful body. During the Middle Ages an objectivist conception continued to predominate, but due to the influence of Christianity it was thought that beauty was by divine creation and began to make a distinction between material and spiritual beauty. Later, during the Renaissance there was a return to classical antiquity and beauty was conceived as balance and harmony. Nature became the authentic model of the artist and highlights the application of scientific studies to artistic creation as seen in the laws of perspective, which allowed faithfully to represent the perceptions of space.
Over time, according to the sociocultural situation of the moment, beauty standards have been established. The ancient Egyptians embedded precious stones in their teeth (3000 to. C.) and the Maya limited their teeth to give different forms (1000 D. C.). In ancient Rome, mouth rinses, dental pasta and mondants were common. In addition, the Phoenicians (800 A. C.) and the Etruscans (900 A. C.) Talled animal fangs so that they seem lost human teeth, using wires as a means of fixing in the mouth.
Although interest in aesthetics did not generate any interest during the Middle Ages, it was in the 18th century when there was a rebirth of this discipline, rubber was discovered, favoring the manufacture of prostheses at low cost, allowing access to dental treatments for Majority of the population. However, it was in the twentieth century when notable advances were recorded in the field of aesthetic dentistry.
Understand people’s pain when performing procedures
When we try to understand the painful experiences of others, we are in the center of one of the main conflicts throughout the process. It is not easy to understand the pain that the other person is experiencing we can imagine it, try to interpret it, but never feel it as their own.
With respect to pain, dentists can have largely compromised less clinical and more human about suffering. We want to focus on the double vision of pain: the biological and the physical along with the spiritual and subjective experience. Although there may be obvious body damage, the symptom is not in this organ, but in the intimacy of the patient. We can see it and feel it, but the same does not happen with the experience. Beyond its somatic properties and descriptions, pain always goes hand in hand with sensibilities and experiences that change or invalidate the patient’s life. Like all experiences, tooth pain cannot be shared, transfer or distributed, we only have to receive acceptance and understanding.
A patient who receives bad news, for example, who must undergo dental extraction, cannot have pain, but unexpected suffering can be triggered. The same applies to serious diagnoses, as a potentially deadly disease, such as cancer that alters daily life.It is an intense-support pain, but of short duration, it is not the same as another chronic, persistent and continuous present in the activity of the person. This variety of factors makes the personal way to face it more complicated and even makes pain more difficult. There is no pain but a different way of life.
Emotions are the engine of our actions and the lack of empathy makes loneliness more generalized. A bad experience of a past dental treatment may be enough for this patient to avoid assisting the dentist, even if he considers it necessary, he will only face the situation which does not leave alternative or escape, and in this way the situation is transformed into a dead end, between the requirement and the intimate impulse of wanting to avoid it.
Patients expect the dentist to heal the disease or pain and that the rehabilitation of damage is achieved, but there is also hope of being welcome in their privacy, in what is afraid and violence. Dentists react to pain as a symptom, experience as moral suffering is easily forgotten.
Life, occupation and dentistry have experienced an art, which derives from the artist’s subtleties. The art of patient care, care and sympathy derives from the ability to interpret the values and emotions of patients with dental passion. The person requesting is not dividing people, but takes people as a whole, not a living body, but a person who constitutes rationality, spirituality and social existence.
conclusion
In spite of everything, dentistry in our country followed a different course from the British or American, where the figure of Sacamuelas endures until the nineteenth century. On the other hand, the emergence of the schools and academies of surgery, and of figures such as Pedro Abadíe or Francisco Antonio Peláez place dentistry as a recognized and regulated science.
Before the title of dentist existed, who exercised the dental profession were apothecaries, barbers, charlatans and dental operators. Dentistry, such as medicine and surgery were trades that moved away a lot of those we today consider health sciences. It was a more manual than theoretical work, with little reputation and lack of knowledge of the general public. The passage of barbers to dentists would not have occurred if it was not for the social historical context, where the Enlightenment stands out as a scientific and artistic movement; and the industrial revolution that changed the lifestyle and demography of Europe. The advances that occur at this time on dentistry go from the design of new prostheses, to treatments of dental infections or congenital deformations such as the lEPorino lip, drainage of abscesses among others.
The humanistic perspective in the dental training process implies the establishment of respectful relationships based on professional ethical training with a humanistic sense.
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