EVALUATION OF ESTHETIC DENTAL AND FACIAL MEASUREMENTS OF SAUDI YOUNG ADULT MALE PATIENTS

Background: smile is considered as one of the most important facial expressions, in order to obtain a highly esthetic result when restoring a patient’s smile, the clinician must consider the effect different tooth forms generate when arranged next to each other. The Golden Proportion (GP) has been considered the most harmonious recurrent tooth-to-tooth ratio and has long been proposed as an aesthetic guideline for restoring maxillary anterior teeth. The aim of the study was to evaluate of esthetic dental and facial measurements of Saudi young adult male patients. Methods: a total of 60 Saudi young adult male patients (20 to 25 years old) with natural smiles. Frontal photographs were captured for all participants while rest position, smiling and close-up anterior with cheek retractors using a digital camera with standardized settings. Photo-editing software was used to measure the perceived mesiodistal width of each anterior maxillary tooth in all digital images. Calculated ratios of the perceived mesiodistal widths of the teeth were compared with their respective GP values using a one sample t-test. Results: for dental measurements, there were no significant differences among the tested groups at (P< 0.05) between the calculated ratios and the golden ratios. No significant differences among the tested groups at (P< 0.05) were detected for facial measurements. Conclusion: the results of the present study have shown that this GP did not exist between the widths of the maxillary anterior teeth in individuals who have an esthetic smile. While the dento-facial measurements were in accordance to GP