A big, bright smile showing lots of healthy teeth is the ideal. Teeth can look small sometimes due to their being too much gum covering them. A cosmetic gingivectomy is a procedure that is done in the dental surgery under local anaesthetic, where the excess gum is removed to expose the full crown of the tooth.

The patient below had orthodontics to re-align her teeth, then a cosmetic gingivectomy to create this patient's perfect smile.