Occlusal Cant in orthodontics podcast

Occlusal plane canting in the vertical plane is one of the parameters affecting smile esthetics and originates from facial asymmetry and/or vertical position asymmetry of the right and/or left quadrants of the dental arches without facial asymmetry. The upper smile arc is the relationship of the curvature of the maxillary incisal and canine edges to the curvature of the lower lip during the social smile, which is influenced by the occlusal plane angle.