title: Soft tissue profile in Anatolian Turkish adults: Part II. Comparison of different soft tissue analyses in the evaluation of beauty.
abstract: This study examined the soft tissue analyses of Steiner, Ricketts, Burstone, Sushner, Holdaway, and Merrifield to evaluate orthodontists' perceptions of Anatolian Turkish adults' beauty. Forty-four subjects (21 females, mean age, 21.35 years; 23 males, mean age, 21.41 years) with Angle Class I occlusal relationship, and normal anteroposterior (ANB angle, 2 degrees +/- 2 degrees ) and vertical (SN-MP angle, 32 degrees +/- 5 degrees ) skeletal relationships were selected from the dental students at the University of Istanbul. The material consisted of lateral cephalometric radiographs and facial-profile slides of these subjects. Ten linear and 6 angular measurements were analyzed on each radiograph, and the facial profiles were judged as poor, fair, good, or excellent by 6 raters. After the scoring, 34 subjects (16 females and 18 males) were placed in the unattractive group, and 10 subjects (5 females and 5 males) were placed in the attractive group. The significance of the differences between the groups was studied by means of the Mann-Whitney U test. The results demonstrated that persons having a high mandibular plane angle, a small nose, protrusive lips, and a retrusive profile were selected as attractive. Among the 7 esthetic lines used to evaluate the soft tissue profile, only Ricketts' norms for upper and lower lips corresponded to the values we found for attractive profiles.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Orthodontics, University of Istanbul, Turkey. elfrby@istanbul.edu.tr
authors.forename: Elif F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Erbay
authors.forename: Cem M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Caniklioğlu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001504:Beauty; D002508:Cephalometry / Q000592:standards*; D004955:Esthetics, Dental / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005006:Ethnicity; D005145:Face / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012015:Reference Standards; D012016:Reference Values; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D014421:Turkey