The Perception Of Facial Profile Attractiveness By Changing The Lower Facial Vertical And Antero-Posterior Proportion

2016-12-27T06-11-57Z
Source: National Journal of Integrated Research in Medicine
Pratik Gandhi*, Kalpesh Patel**, Padmaja Sharma Arora***, Nikunj Patel****.
Introduction: This study aimed to investigate the influence of changing the antero-posterior and vertical facial proportions on attractiveness rankings and to determine if these rankings would be influenced by gender and profession of the evaluators. Facial profile images were used as a mean of stimulus presentation. It has been shown that photographs provide valid, reproducible and representative ratings of dental and facial appearance. Objective: This study was to determine what Indian society considers optimal for facial attractiveness and whether this preference is affected by gender and profession. Method: Total 500 evaluators were selected for this study, from which 250 evaluators were dentist and 250 evaluators were non-dentist. Conclusion: At the end of the study it was concluded that the male and female profile images with average lower facial height consider as a most attractive by the both the groups. The class II profile image of male and female profiles consider as a more attractive than class- III profile images. [Pratik G NJIRM 2016; 7(6): 59-68]


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