Khaniya Bharathan, (2016) Photographic Assessment of Facial Components in Facial Esthetics as percieved by Orthodontists, Artists and Photographers: An In Vivo study. Masters thesis, Sri Ramakrishna Dental College and Hospital, Coimbatore.
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Abstract
AIM OF THE STUDY: To establish the perception of facial aesthetics by different professionals namely orthodontists, artists and photographers and to investigate the most influential facial characteristics involved in rating overall attractiveness. MATERIALS AND METHODS: 22 subjects were selected based on inclusion criteria each of whom was evaluated by nine panelists consisting of three orthodontists, three artists and three photographers. Digital videography was used for dynamic recording of smile, which was accomplished with SLR digital camera, Canon 600D that was mounted on a tripod at a fixed distance of 1meter from the subject sitting in natural head position. The subject was asked to rehearse the phrase, “CHELSEA EATS CHEESECAKE ON THE CHESAPEAKE” in order relax and then asked to start smiling. A ten-second video was taken and the raw video was transferred to a video editing software (GOM player). The streaming video was converted into 300 frames. The frame that best represented the subjects natural/posed unstrained social smile was selected, which was 1 of the 15 consecutive frames in which the smile did not change. The selected posed smile frontal photograph of each subject was cropped using Adobe Photoshop 7.0. To create three types of images the first image being the face with the smile, the second image the face without the smile and the third image the smile only. The photos were placed in a photo album. A questionnaire containing 11 questions were given to each of the evaluators along with the 3 photographs of the subjects to establish the perception of facial aesthetics by different professionals namely orthodontists, artists and photographers and to investigate the most influential facial characteristics involved in rating overall attractiveness. RESULTS: The correlation was highest between the orthodontist and artists group followed by the photographer and artist group and finally the photographer and orthodontist group. Preferences for facial component differed between the three groups. The orthodontist group showed symmetry of face, cheekbone and shape of the lips to be strongly associated with overall attractiveness and exposure of gums to be least associated facial feature. Whereas the artists group considered the symmetry of face, shape of forehead, role of chin to be the most associated feature and the least associated feature was the smile. According to the photographers group cheekbone was the facial feature most strongly associated with overall attractiveness and least associated facial feature was the symmetry of face. CONCLUSION: The view about overall facial attractiveness significantly correlates for Orthodontists and Artists. The perception by the three professionals confirms that facial esthetics is not dependent on any isolated facial characteristic and overall facial attractiveness is more important than dental attractiveness.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Facial Components, Overall Attractiveness, Smile Esthetics, Orthodontist, Artist, Photographer, Comparative study. |
| Subjects: | DENTAL > Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics |
| Depositing User: | Subramani R |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Sep 2021 02:40 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Sep 2021 02:40 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/14542 |
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