An assessment of perception of attractive profiles after altering tooth inclination and mandibular anterior repositioning on the photographs

Abstract

Facial profile disharmonies in the anteroposterior (AP) position of the mandible is among the most frequent reasons that patients seek orthodontic treatment. Although previous studies of profile esthetics have mainly focused on the position or the inclination of the maxillary incisors in profile views with normal mandibular positions, to our knowledge, no studies have yet evaluated the esthetic effects of maxillary incisor inclination in relation to different mandibular positions in male and female individuals for smile profile. The objective of this study is to evaluate the significant relationship between preferred tooth position in relation to different mandibular positions in male and female subjects’ smile profiles. A right lateral profile and frontal view photograph with the patient in a natural head position. Smile parameters will be evaluated and recorded. These smiling photographs will be altered using a commercially available image editing software program (Adobe Photoshop CS, version 8.0; Adobe Systems). The number of photographs that will be available after alteration and given to the judges to rate the attractiveness of each. The data thus obtained will be put to significant statistical analysis and the results thus obtained will be carried out to achieve the aim and objective of the study.