Dental esthetic self-evaluation and satisfaction.
Four hundred eighty-one 10- to 13-year-old children answered questions to determine their skill at self-evaluation and their level of self-satisfaction with their own dental appearance. Their answers were correlated to dental-orthodontic variables measured for each child. Findings indicate that while subjects were objective in self-evaluation, there were sex-specific correlates between particular dental variables and self-satisfaction.
D000293:Adolescent; D001828:Body Image; D002648:Child; D004955:Esthetics, Dental; D005260:Female; D005881:Gingiva / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008310:Malocclusion / Q000523:psychology; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D012649:Self Concept; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires