A STUDY TO ASSESS AND CORRELATE THE EXISTENCE OF GOLDEN PROPORTION BETWEEN FACE AND TEETH
Abstract
There is a universal standard for facial beauty regardless of race, age, sex, and other variables. Regardless of how attractive the teeth appear in isolation if spatially they don't corelate to the rest of the facial structures, then the overall impression will not be aesthetic3. Our intent in this study is to use a universal standard for facial beauty which will significantly help us in rehabilitating facial disharmonies and abnormalities and also help us as a guideline in variety prosthetic restoration. A total of 214 students from SDM college of dental science, Dharwad between the age of 18-25 years with maxillary incisors and canine presenting with anatomic integrity and faces with no facial deformity, participated in the study. Frontal photograph of the face under uniform and standard is to be set up. Digital management of the photograph was undertaken using Adobe Photoshop cs. Out of 214 photographs, beautiful/attractive faces were selected with vas (visual analog scale).30 dental professionals participated in the study. Out of 214 photographs, 30 photographs were selected for attractive faces. Facial proportion and dental proportion with certain measurements were measured individually and statistical analysis was performed on the data to look for correlation. Within the limitations of the study, we concluded that: 83% of the sample size showed the presence of golden proportion existing in the teeth, only 40% of the sample size showed the presence of golden proportion in the face, only 33% of the sample showed golden proportion both in face and teeth
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