title: Perception of facial esthetics by native Chinese participants by using manipulated digital imagery techniques.
abstract: This investigation utilized a manipulated digital video imaging model to elicit profile facial esthetics preferences in a lay population of native Chinese participants from Beijing. A series of 4 distinct digitized distortions were constructed from an initial lateral cephalogram. These images represented skeletal or dental changes that differed by 2 standard deviations from the normative values for Chinese adults. Video morphing then created soft-tissue profiles. A series of nonparametric tests validated the digitized distortion model. The native Chinese participants in this sample found that the profile distortions most acceptable were the "flatter", or bimaxillary retrusive distortion, in the male stimulus face and the "anterior divergent", or maxillary deficiency, in the female stimulus face.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthodontics, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Dental School, Newark 07103-2400, USA. truppvc@umdnj.edu
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Maganzini
authors.forename: J Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Tseng
authors.forename: J Z
authors.initials: JZ
authors.lastname: Epstein
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002508:Cephalometry / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002681:China; D003766:Dental Occlusion; D004955:Esthetics, Dental / Q000523:psychology*; D005145:Face / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015588:Observer Variation; D010465:Perception; D019252:Radiography, Dental, Digital / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012016:Reference Values; D014505:Urban Population