Will Mouth Widening Make My Smile Bigger and Show More Teeth?

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am interested in a wider mouth smile. This is an example in which when the woman smiles, wouldn’t it make sense that her smile would be wider if her mouth was widened ? Because the mouth opening is now wider, which means more teeth would show when she smiles no?

A: Maybe  it would but one is smiling against a scar line so it is probably not a 1:1 ratio…meaning the amount of mouth widening at rest may not be the same amount numerically when one is smiling.

Quite frankly it is simply a dynamic assessment of a static operation that I have never assessed before….so I really can’t say for sure what the dynamic effect of mouth widening is.

Dr. Barry Eppley

World-Renowned Plastic Surgeon