A study to assess and compare facial and dental proportions in attractive smiles

Abstract

The importance of the face as the bearer of identity, character, intelligence, and beauty is universal. There is a universal standard for facial beauty regardless of race, age, sex and other variables. Beautiful faces have ideal facial proportion. All living organisms, including humans, are genetically encoded to develop to this proportion because there are extreme esthetic and physiologic benefits; but vast majority of us are not perfectly proportioned because of environmental factors. Regardless of how attractive the teeth appear in isolation, if spatially they don’t relate to rest of the facial structures, then the overall impression will not be esthetic. This paper therefore aims at assessment and co relation of dental and facial proportion influencing the orofacial esthetics.