Smile's aesthetic perception analysis by dental surgeons, dentistry students, and lay people
International Journal of Development Research
Smile's aesthetic perception analysis by dental surgeons, dentistry students, and lay people
Received 29th November, 2018; Received in revised form 06th December, 2018; Accepted 04th January, 2019; Published online 27th February, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Luciana Thaís Rangel SOUZA et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Introduction: The growing search for esthetics, by patients, requires more and more knowledge about many situations and anatomical variations by both dental surgeons and dentistry students. Therefore, this project's goal is to analyze the smile's alteration of its aesthetic perception by dental surgeons, dentistry students, and lay people. Methods: That was made by means of a survey composed of six smile changes' frontal images, on which the participant chose what looked more and less attractive. On the images is possible to analyze six items that, frequently, are seen daily on the clinic: medial line deviation; bucket corridor; upper lateral incisors' agenesis; occlusal plan's unevenness; dark gaps on top and smile's arch. It was performed a descriptive statistic analysis to exhibit the results as absolute and relative, through chi-square test and Fisher's exact test, with a significance level of 0.05. Conclusion: Dental surgeons, dentistry students, and laypeople presented the same smile's aesthetic perception, in relation to the evaluated dental changes.
