Abstract
Objective: awas to evaluate the influence of mentoplasty on esthetic perception of dental surgeons, dental students and lay persons. In addition, to determine whether the outstanding chin affects the perceived desire for orthognathic surgery. Material and Methods: An image of an ideal silhouette was created. This image was manipulated to create another six images with different degrees of retrogenia and progenia in increments, advancing and receding the chin on a scale of 5 mm (from +15 to -15 mm) in the anteroposterior and vertical directions. Once the images were obtained, a questionnaire was created, which was evaluated by lay persons, dental surgeons and dental students (n = 50). The evaluators used a visual analog scale to analyze the images, establishing a score ranging from 0 to 10. Associated with the scale, the evaluators were asked whether they wished to have some surgical correction performed if the image in question were a representation of their own facial profile. Results: demonstrated that image H (0 mm) was ranked as the most attractive by the dental surgeons, while the dental students and lay persons scored B (-5 mm) as the best image. In general, images A (+15 mm) and D (-15 mm) were those that most induced a desire for corrective surgery. Conclusion: the prognathic and retrognathic facial profiles were unpleasant and perceptible to the dentist, dental student and lay person. The more projected and retracted the chin was, the greater was the desire to have orthognathic surgery performed.KeywordsEsthetics; Mentoplasty; Face.
Highlights
I n orthodontic treatment, facial harmony and balance, as well as ideal occlusion must be simultaneous and important objectives [1]
The contemporary perspective of dental practice and research demands that professionals approximate the expectations of their patients when defining the best facial esthetics as the main objective of the treatment
Dental students and laypersons who participated in the study were able to note differences between the images presented in Figure 2 A and B
Summary
I n orthodontic treatment, facial harmony and balance, as well as ideal occlusion must be simultaneous and important objectives [1]. The contemporary perspective of dental practice and research demands that professionals approximate the expectations of their patients when defining the best facial esthetics as the main objective of the treatment. The procedures for correction of alterations of the chin are performed with merely esthetic objectives, without significant functional changes [5,6,7]. In spite of being a routinely performed procedure, with a view to camouflaging malocclusions, there are few studies available in the literature that have been concerned about evaluating the impact of this procedure on facial esthetics from the patient’s perspective [6,7]
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