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Introduction: Aesthetic smile is an
important part for every patient since it plays a vital role in his
personality, selfconfidence and self-esteem.
Aim: To assess the relationship between the potential factors
affecting the perception of aesthetic smile among adult patients, to
evaluate the patient’s satisfaction toward their smile and to find the
most common factors for their dissatisfaction caused by smile.
Materials and methods: A 100 males and 100 females were evaluated
for the presence or absence of aesthetic smile. The clinical examination
was included categories related to personal aesthetic factors of the
smile. A questioner designed by Goldstein to measure the patient’s
self-perception and satisfaction of their smiles was used. The data were
pooled for analysis, statistical significance was set to p-value ˃ 0.05.
Results: There was a significant differences in the parallel
interpupillary line and coincided of dental midlines alone and with
facial midlines in the aesthetic and non-aesthetic choices, also between
the symmetry of maxillary central and lateralicisors, and canines with
their axial inclinations choices (p< 0.05). Some group of questions
showed significant differences among female and male subjects while,
the male subjects Some questions were near to the statistical
significant differences, while others showed no significace between
males and females choices.
Conclusion: Dental and facial factors showed highly significant
relationship with aesthetic smile. So, it should be observed by a dental
specialist to provide a proper treatment plan with respect to the
potential factors of the aesthetics to help for self-satisfaction
measurement.
Key words:
Dental aesthetics, Dental attitude,
Dental cosmetic
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